The Category & Forum Management control panel allows the administrator to manage the forum's categories and forums. This is a 2 stage control panel, first stage involves the category managment and the 2nd deals with the forums inside a particular category.
The first control panel you see when you click on the 'Category & Forum Management' link is the category manager. This control panel allows you to create/edit/remove and reposition the categories of your forum.
At the top of the page there is a form that would allow you to add a new category. When you are editing a category the form's values will be filled up with the category's properties allowing you to edit them.
Description of the category, this text will appear adjacent to the category name.
You can put raw HTML into this field.
Whether or not this category will appear collapsed or uncollapsed by default on the front page.
Where to insert the category, below or on top of all the other categories in the forum.
Below the form there is a list of all the existing categories in the forum. This list contains links that allow you to edit the category, delete a category, change its position in the category list and edit the forums inside this category.
When you click on this link you will be taken to a forum managment page, allowing you to manage the forums assigned to this category.
The forum manager allows the administrator to manage forums that are assigned to a particular category. This includes adding/removing controls, ability to move a forum to a different category as well as change display order of the forum.
The first item on the forum manager page is form that allows the administrator to add and edit forums. When a forum is being edited the forum's settings will be pulled into the form for ease of editing.
Forum's description, this text will be shown right below the forum name.
Can contain raw HTML.
What kind of text formatting tools are available to the user.
FUDcode Users can use FUDcode styling tags to format their messages.
HTML The users can use HTML inside their messages.
NONE only plain text is allowed.
Whether or users will be required to enter a special password in order to be able to post messages inside this forum.
If you've specified that users must enter a password in order to post messages, you should enter the password inside this field.
If set to yes, any new message will need to be approved by the forum's moderator or an administrator before it becomes visible to the public.
The maximum size, in kilobytes of the attached files users can attach to their messages.
Only the number of bytes of the messages inside this forum will be shown. For example, if you set this limit to 1000 bytes and a user entered a 1500 byte long message only the 1st 1000 bytes of the message will be shown. To see the rest the message user will need to click on the 'Show the rest of the message' link.
Setting this option to 0 means that unlimited message length is allowed, effectively disabling this feature.
You can choose to have an icon displayed beside the forum. By clicking on the 'SELECT ICON' link you will be able to choose an icon for your forum.
You can upload additional forum icons in addition to the one installed by default via the Forum Icon Manager.
Below the forum editor there a list of all the forums inside the category you are editing. Using this listing you can edit, delete, move to another category or change the position of the forum inside the current category.
This option allows the administrator to move a forum from its current category to a different category.