Managing Forums

Forums are items that users interact within only from within the My Discussions window. They provide a way to have a general discussion topic and can aggregate discussion content from items and saved searches contained within them. End user functionality for Forums exists within My Discussions, and in the “Add Item(s) to Bookmarks” action. Special administrator-only capabilities for Forums are described in this section.

Administrators have access to Forums in the Aras Innovator section of the TOC. Administrators can force other users to follow forums from here. The reason for forcing users to follow Forums is to make sure that some or all users within an environment have the same discussion topics available to them.

An admin can force a forum to reside on a user’s bookmarks by doing the following:

1. Login to Aras Innovator as an administrator.
2. Go to Contents --> Administration --> Secure Social --> Forums.
3. Run a search to see all the forums created by the users.



4. Right-click and open the required Forum for editing.
Note
The selected forum should be the Regular forum type.



Select the Must View By tab and then click the



button in the Relationship toolbar.

5. Add the required Identities to the must_view_id property.



6. Click Done to save and unlock the window.

The administrator can set a Forum to an inactive state. The admin can do this by using the Promote button on the Item toolbar.

When a Forum is in an inactive state, it automatically disappears from any user’s Bookmarks. It is also not visible within the Follow Forum selector.

The administrator can delete a Forum. The admin can do this by clicking

in the toolbar and selecting Delete --> Delete from the drop-down menu.

When a Forum is deleted by an admin, it is automatically deleted from any user’s Bookmarks without giving any warning to the user.