Forum Settings

To navigate to the Forum Settings page, use the following steps:

1. Click Settings , and then click Site Settings.
   
   
2. On the Site Settings page, under Social Squared Forum, click Forum Settings.
   

Use the Forum Settings page to configure the overall settings for any forum that is stored in the Social Squared database and to which the site is connected. Therefore the configuration settings on this page need only be configured once for each Social Squared database, and not for each site that you connect to a Social Squared database.

Specifically you can configure:

• Relative URL – Use this field when forums are not at the root of a Web Application
  
  
• Search User – Enable Social Squared integrated search
  
  
• Page Count – The number of topics and pages to be displayed per page and in search results.
  
  
• RSS
  
  
• Recent Topics – Show or Hide Recent Topics and set the number of days to display
  
  
• Page Title – Specify words to be appended to the HTML page title
  
  
• File Upload – Specify maximum upload file size and allowed file types
  
  
• Votes – Specify the voting icon to use. The choices are either Arrow or Thumb
  
  
• Registration – Allow Forms Based Authentication (FBA) registration
  
  
• Enable Captcha – Enable Captcha in FBA registration.
  
  
• Sorting
  
  
• Post Numbering – Enable post numbering
  
  
• Private Message – Enable private messaging
  
  
• Original poster – Highlights the original poster
  
  
• Moderator highlighting – Labels each moderator
  
  
• Chat – Enable chat feature
  
  
• Likes/Notifications – Enable likes/notifications for posts
  
  
• Follow User – Enable the feature to follow other users
  
  
• Select Tags – Enable tagging ,specify the tag delimiter, and allow both enterprise and term stores.
  
  
• Social Features – Enable publishing posts to the Social Feed of My Site including Mentions and Tags
  
  
• Phone Settings – Configure Phone Settings
  
  
• Profile Settings – Configure profile settings, such as picture, email, and alias.
  
  
• Reply via Email – Enable reply via email for either or both, POP3 and Exchange Web Services
  
  
• Terms and Conditions – Add your own terms and conditions for forum usage
  
  
• User Reputation Scores – Configure Reputation Scores

!You will need to be a Social Squared administrator to configure Forum Settings.