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Creating Categories & Forums

Following Kevin Clark explanation:

• The whole thing is the board.
• Inside that are categories.
• Inside those are forums.
• Inside the forums are topics.
• Inside the topics are posts.

1) In forum management make a new forum.

Type: category

No parent.

Here you can choose to copy permissions from another already created forum

2) Then make another forum.

Type:forum

Parent: the category you just made.

If you didn't select to copy the permissions settings from another forum when you created your new one, you need to set them manually so everyone can see it

Go to

Admin control panel>Permissions>Groups forum permissions.

Set the registered users to be able to see and post in it.

Making a forum visible on the Board Index to guests but only accessible to Members

1. On the Administration Control Panel go to the Forums tab and then on the left sidebar choose Forum Permissions
2. On Forum Permissions choose the forum/forums you want to change and click Submit
3. On Groups/Manage Groups section select the group Guests and click in Edit Permissions
4. On Setting Permissions select No Access for the role and then click on Advanced Permissions
5. On the tabs that open, for the Post tab, change the Can see forum option to Yes and click Apply Permissions

Now, the selected forum/forums is/are listed on the Board Index but the content is only visible to registered users.