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  Valid for:        SilvaForum 0.1-beta-3 (SVN/Unreleased)
  Author:           Todd Matsumoto, Guido Wesdorp
  Email:            todd@infrae.com
  Last author:      $Author: eric $
  SVN Revision:     $Date: 2008-05-28 10:49:28 +0200 (Wed, 28 May 2008) $
  Last modified:    $Rev: 28885 $

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SilvaForum
==========

What is it?
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SilvaForum is a forum (or Bulletin Board System) for the Silva CMS. It allows
registered visitors of a Silva site to create topics (subjects or questions)
and comment on existing topics.

Installating SilvaForum
-----------------------

See INSTALL.txt for installation instructions, plus how to activate the Silva
Forum stylesheet. 

Using SilvaForum
----------------

Visit the SMI (Silva Management Interface) to create a 'Silva Forum' object:
this will serve as the root of the forum. The public views of the Forum allow
(registered) clients to add topics (topics) to the forum, and comments
(messages) to the topics. The topics and comments are accessible from the
SMI for moderation and maintenance purposes.

Access
------

Forums can be either exposed to the public, with authentication on the forms,
or they can only be viewed by zope authorized users.

If the forum should be viewable by the public, go to the access tab in the
SMI and from the 'public view access restrictions' choose the setting 'Anonymous'
and click 'set restrictions'. This will allow the public to see and navigate the
forum, however if any form input is submitted the user will be prompted for their
login.

If the forum should only be viewed by authorized individuals, go to the access
tab in the SMI and from the 'public view access restrictions' choose the setting
'Authorized' and click 'set restrictions'. This only allows authorized user to
access and view the forum and will be prompted for login when clicking the link
to the forum in the 'toc'.

Logging out with Internet Explorer
----------------------------------

Users using Internet Explorer have to explicitly logout with an unknown username
and password, otherwise, IE will keep the current user logged in.

Thanks
------

Thank you Bas Leeflang and the Bijvoet Center http://www.bijvoet-center.nl/ for
the assignment to build the forum.

Thank you Mark James of http://www.famfamfam.com/ for the great icons, which
we used in the forum views!

Questions, remarks, etc.
------------------------

If you have questions, remarks, bug reports or fixes, please send an email
to info@infrae.com or todd@infrae.com.
