All forums are a part of some forum group. Pre-defined forums need to be created within some particular forum group and ad-hoc forums are automatically placed into the AdHoc forum group upon creation. A forum group usually contains forums related to the same topic. For example:

 

•Computers (forum group)

•Announcements (forum)

•Technical questions (forum)

•FAQ's (forum)

•Web design (forum group)

•CSS (forum)

•XHTML (forum)

 

Creating a new forum group

 

Go to CMS Desk -> Tools -> Forums and click New forum group. Fill in the following fields:

 

•Group display name: the forum group name displayed on your website.

•Group code name: the forum group name used in your code.

•Description: description of the forum group displayed on your website.

•Forum group base URL: URL displayed when the user accesses the forum; e.g. ~/MyForums.aspx

•Forum group unsubscription URL: URL of a page where users can unsubscribe from the given forum group.

 

Click OK to save.

 

 
Continue to the Creating a pre-defined forum topic to learn how to create individual forums within a forum group or the Adding an ad-hoc forum to the web topic to find out more about ad-hoc forums..