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Forum

The VyHub forum is perfectly integrated in the VyHub system. Players can just keep using their accounts without a need to newly register.

The Forum is a premium add-on and costs monthly. After you purchased the addon in VyHub Central, it must be activated in the general settings of your instance.

Features

  • Unlimited Topic Categories, Topics, Threads, and Posts
  • Forum statistics (Thread- and post count)
  • Last posts and last threads
  • Simple and easy-to-use design
  • Perfect integration into VyHub
  • Advanced rights features
  • Reactions with Emojis

Objects

Topic Category

Attribute Description
Title Title of topic category
Requirement Set Can be used to control the access of the users to the topic category

Topic

Attribute Description
Title Title of topic
Description [Optional] Description of topic
Icon [Optional] Icon for topic
Topic Category The topics topic category. The topic is organised under the topic
Edit post Whether users can edit their own posts. Users with the property forum_edit and topic admins can edit at any time
Prohibit create thread Prohibits users from creating threads in this topic. Users with the property forum_edit and topic admins can create posts at any time.
Admins [Optional] List of users, which can edit and delete threads and posts.

Thread

Attribute Description
Title Title of thread
Status Used to close and achieve a thread

Post

Attribute Description
Content Content of post

Access Control

  • Admins and users with the forum_edit property can edit everything and can create topic categories and topics.
  • Topic admins can be set in the topic settings. They can edit and delete every thread and every post of users. You can consider them as moderators.
  • The edit_post setting in the topic is used to allow users to edit their own posts. Otherwise, users can not edit their posts.
  • Team only parts of the forum is possible with requirement sets.

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions
Question: I have bought the forum addon. Why can't I find it?
Solution: You need to also activate the Forum in the general settings of your instance.
Question: Users can't edit their posts, how do I change that?
Solution: You can find the edit_post setting in the settings of the respective topic.
Question: I want to create a team only forum. is that possible?
Solution: Yes, that is possible with requirement sets. Find examples in the requirement documentation.