Manage Groups and Forums

The Forum ☛ Forums ☛ Manage Groups and Forums administration panel is the main place to be to manage your existing Groups and Forums. When the panel initially loads, you are presented with a list of Groups and Forums in the same order they would appear on your SPF front end. You can edit a Group or Forum from this panel. You can delete a Group or Forum from this panel. And you may view the existing permissions for all the Forums. You can also add a Permission globally to all Forums within a Group.

Add User Group Permission Set To An Entire Group

This admin panel is used to assign a User Group Permission Set to all Forums within a Group. Please use caution as any current Permission Set for that User Group on any of the Forums in the Group will be overwritten.

Select the Group that you want to assign a User Group Permission Set to from the pull-down menu. Then, select the desired User Group Permission Set from Permission Set pull down menu to apply to all Forums within the Group.

Edit Group

This admin panel is used to modify the information for an existing Group. User Group Permission Sets cannot be modified at the Group level and must be modified at the individual Forum level.

When editing a Group, you also may also modify the User Group default permissions for any forums created in this Group. For each of the existing User Groups, select the desired permission set. Existing User Group default permissions will already be shown in the drop down menus. Changing any of the defaults will not add or modify any current permissions. They will apply to any new forums created in this User Group.

Delete Group

This admin panel is used to delete an existing Group. Use extreme caution with this function as all Forums, Topics and Posts within that Group will also be deleted.

View Forum Permissions

This admin panel is used to edit the existing Permission Sets assigned to the User Groups in the Forum and change it them another one, or delete the currently assigned permission set for any particular User Group. This will remove access for that User Group to this Forum.

Edit Forum

This admin panel is used to modify information on an existing Forum. The Forum name, description and display position may be changed. The Forum may also be locked. If the Forum becomes locked, users will not be able to reply to topics or create new topics. In addition, you may also choose to move the Forum to a different Group.

The unique forum ‘slug’ can also be edited here if necessary. It is strongly recommended that slugs not be changed unless a specific problem has been identified and a forum is having problems displaying correctly.

Delete Forum

This admin panel is used to delete an existing Forum. Use with extreme caution as this action will also delete all Topics and Posts within the Forum.