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About cm3
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Forums / Discussion Lists
Online forums provide a way for your staff and audience members to communicate with each other, or with you, in a structured but flexible format. The cm3 forums system offers a standard forum / topic / post / reply hierarchy that you may have seen in other forums products, with built-in moderation features to make sure forum members and forum posts can be kept in order.
- Add / edit / delete options on all forum topics and posts
- Unlimited number of forums can be run
- Organising, sorting and categorisation of forums (Forum posts are automatically sorted based on most recent posts)
- cm3 user system used for user logins
- User login capability for restricted forums
- Configurable look and feel of forums to suit site the design of your site
- Forum search function with relevancy matching
- Displays the titles, summaries, topics in forums, posts, last post date, moderator name, highlighted new posts
- Advanced feature such as sticky topics
- Rich text editor to provide fine control for each user over the layout of their posts
- Ordering and sorting of threaded posts
- Email notification features, optional for each user by forum or by topic
- Read-only and full access forums
- Viewable member profile (members can opt to have an invisible profile)
- Forum administration interface (within cm3 interface) and moderation features for authorised users to modify or delete posts
exposed to the website search system. Events are also sensitive to user permissions, which means it is possible to show certain events only to certain member groups, if you prefer.
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The forums area of the cm3 customer and partner support extranet.
This particular view shows the summary screen of a single forum with a number of topics and response posts in each topic. Topics are listed with the most recent replies filtered to the top of the list. A "sticky topic" feature is also available.
Forum participants can elect to show their full name and information profile, only a partial profile and nickname, or keep their personal details (apart from nickname) hidden from other users.
The "add post" form is shown, with its built in rich text editing features.
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