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The forum module allows you and your colleagues to have discussions in the intranet. Every discussion is divided into discussion threads. These threads make it very easy to follow discussions. For important responses to be reported to you in a timely fashion, you can subscribe to receive responses to contributions or even whole forums by email. Thanks to the permission system you can grant external business partners access to the forums specifically.
The forum overview displays all the discussion forums that are currently open. Aside from the forum topic, the display also shows how many articles have been posted in each forum, how many you have not yet read how many threads there are and when the latest article was posted. You can also see who the moderator is for the discussion and when the forum was originally created. The printer icon here allows you to print the displayed overview of forum topics. Clicking on the icon first opens a form in your browser that is optimized for printing. You can now print out this page as you normally would by using the printing function of your browser. In MS Internet ExplorerTM, for instance, the print option is found under the menu item File | Print. The print function here helps you print out list fields correctly. In a similar fashion, you can click on the Archive tab and print the archived list of all forum topics.
When you click on a forum, a detail view of that forum opens. The individual threads are listed in this view. If a thread has multiple articles, you can click on the plus symbol
to open it and see the following entries in a tree structure. To read an article, simply click on it.