Dashboard
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The administration panel is equipped with a grpahical dashboard, which enables easy and quick access to most of the key areas in the panel. All these key areas are classified based on their functionality and are provided as Tab pages.
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Categories
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Unlimited number of categories can be created. Category display order can be configured prioritising the Forum groups.
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Forums
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Forum are associated with a category and can be either moderated or normal. Using the permission system the admininstrator can set the view permission as well as post permission. Forums display order can also be configured to set priority. Forums can be set in review mode, which in turn enables the approval cycle.
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Multilingual
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It has the capability to swtich between languages when site language changes. More than 30 languages are available.
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TimeZones
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It handles differnt timezones and date formats depending upon the region. All of these can be configured in the Global configuration.
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Volume
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Designed and developed in consideration to handle large volume of data. Tested on more than 10,000,000 posts.
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Tools
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The tools menu contains houskeeping functionalities like Syncing users, Database Upgradation and One-Touch Migration from other boards. Upgrades are easy, as all the database upgradation are now a part of the administration itself. No need to mess with SQLs anymore.
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Theme
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The look and feel of the board is now based on style sheets. Admin can easily adjust the styles.
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Global Configuration
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All the general forum wide settings can be configured here.A few of the major settings are selecting user profiler, editor adjustments, upload settings, time offset etc..
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Moderations
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Moderators can now perform a whole lot of functionalities. Some of them are Lock, Move, Edit, Split, Approve etc.
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Guest Posting
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Now all users can be configured to Post message. Guest can also be allowed to post.
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Security
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CAPTCHA can be enabled to prevent spamming. Time based editing is another feature. After a configured time interval, users are restricted from editing their own posts.
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Bad Words Filter
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While posting, messages are parsed to remove the bad words if any. Any number of bad words can be configured from the administration panel.
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User Profiles
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Can be configured to use the default user profile or Community Builder profile or Jomsocial profile. Each user can have an inbuilt or custom avatar based on his choice. Signature is another feature that they can utilize.
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Ranks
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Now any number of ranks can be created. It comes bundled with 4 colored rank packs including half-ranks. Ranks can be either normal (post count based) or special. Special rank images are also bundled. Moderators and Admin can use special ranks, which is handled separately, other wise not based on post counts.
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Uploads
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File uploads as attachments can be enabled or disabled from the administration panel. Admin can now restrict the upload based on file type, size, user level etc.. Avatar uploads are also now permitted as a part of the user profile management. Any number of files can be attached to a message, including attachment note.
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Search
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Users can search the board using the default search module.
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Latest Posts/Popular Posts
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Possible to include extra add-on modules like latest posts, popular posts etc.
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