Navigate Forums

Administrators: You are viewing User instructions for this module. For Administrator instructions, go here.

This screen shows the forum categories and forums defined by your organization. Each forum includes a brief description of the forum’s purpose, the number of threads and posts in the forum and the date and time of the last post. The forums listed are ones to which you are subscribed, either automatically based on subgroup, committee or interest, or ones to which you have manually subscribed.

Note: To view a list of all forums to which you are automatically subscribed and forums available for subscription, go to Member Profile > Forum Memberships or select the My Forum Memberships button at the top right corner.

Subgroups: If your club or association has subgroups defined and each subgroup has its own website and forums, members of each subgroup (child) can see the forums and messages belonging to the parent.

Select Search to navigate to a separate screen and search for specific messages either in all forums or a specific forum. For more information on searching forums, go here.

Select Our Discussion Forums Policy (if shown) to view the club’s policies for maintaining harmonious and smoothly-running forums.

Select a forum to view all threads within that forum.

The number of threads that display on each page will depend on your preferences set in Forum General Preferences in the Member Profile. Paging controls will appear if the number of threads exceeds the number you set to display on each page.

Select Start New Thread to start a new discussion thread within the forum. Select My Forum Preferences to quickly navigate to Member Profile > Forum General Preferences and manage your forum preferences and settings.

Use the search bar to search through the forum for a specific message. Selecting the search icon will take you to the Search For Messages page where the search term(s) entered and the forum will be auto-filled into the search fields.

To quickly navigate to another forum, select a forum from the Go To Forum drop-down menu.

If you are looking at a forum which allows members to opt-in to subscribe and participate, you will see a screen similar to the following:

Select the Profile - Forum Memberships link to quickly navigate to the Forum Memberships settings in your member profile and subscribe to the forum.