Quando um usuário se registra e tem logs em um fórum, eles podem querer criar algumas mensagens. Publicar é um processo bastante fácil. Ele pode precisar ter permissões em certos quadros, estar em um grupo de membros, ou ter quantidade de mensagens.

iniciando novo Tópico

Navegue até ao quadro em que você deseja postar e selecione o botão Novo Tópic (posicionado por padrão no topo e na parte inferior do quadro), que deve levá-los para a tela Iniciar novo Tópico. Enquanto isso apresenta uma série de opções, os dois mais importantes é o campo Assunto e o campo principal Mensagem (não rotulados como tal, mas óbvio pelo seu tamanho). Então digite o seu assunto e começe a escrever (ou cole) sua mensagem na área de texto principal. Se você está feliz com a sua mensagem de texto simples, você pode postá-la selecionando o botão Postar e/ou visualizar primeiro selecionando o botão Visualizar. Alguns fóruns podem ser configurados para oferecer um botão adicional Verificação Ortográfica juntamente com a opção Postar e Visualizar.

Responder a um Tópico ou Votação

Responder a um tópico é quase o mesmo que iniciar um novo tópico, mas não é necessário adicionar nada no Assunto a não ser que você queira alterar o que já está lá. Para votar em uma enquete, você simplesmente tem que selecionar a(s) opção escolhida(s) e selecione Enviar Voto. Você também pode ser capaz de fazer outras coisas com o post, como anexar um arquivo a uma mensagem.

Se 'Resposta Rápida' estiver ativado, um simples campo Responder também será exibido após as mensagens em uma página, mas você terá que digitar o seu Código Bulletin Board e os Smileys se você optar por usá-lo.

Norma de Opções de Postagens

• Icone da Mensagem - Este menu drop-down permite aos usuários alterar o ícone padrão para a linha de assunto para algo que corresponde ao estado de espírito ou finalidade de suas mensagens.
• Bulletin Board code - Bulletin Board Code (ou BBC) é a ferramenta essencial para formatar e alterar a aparência de mensagens. Enquanto isso afeta o texto simples em grande parte da mesma maneira como as ferramentas de formatação em qualquer processador de texto, O campo de mensagem principal não se comporta como uma maneira WYSIWYG, para que os usuários possam visualizar suas mensagens se eles precisam ver o que ele vai olhar como quando publicadas.

Opções Adicionais

As seguintes opções podem aparecer por padrão em alguns fóruns, mas podem estar dentro de uma expansão/colapso em outros painéis.

• Notifique-me de respostas - Os usuários devem verificar isso para se inscrever para a notificação de e-mail se não houver respostas ao tópico.
• Voltar ao tópico - Os usuários devem verificar isso para voltar ao tópico (em vez do índice de mensagens) depois de postar.
• Não usar smileys - Os usuários devem verificar isso para evitar que certas combinações de caracteres em suas mensagens sejam interpretadas como smileys.

As seguintes opções só estão disponíveis para os administradores e os membros com permissões especiais:

• Lock this topic - This prevents members who don't have moderation privileges from replying to the topic.
• Sticky this topic - This forces the topic to always be displayed at the top of the message index.
• Move this topic - This moves the topic to a different board.
• Attachments - If enabled, this feature allows users to attach files to their posts in the same way as most e-mail clients. Users simply have to browse to the relevant files on their computer before selecting Post. Multiple attachments, up to the limit set by the administrator, can be added to a single post by selecting the Additional Attachments link. Users can delete their attachments or add more, by modifying their posts. The permitted file types and sizes are set by the forum administrator. Some forums may display image attachments in line with the post or show them as thumbnails below the post.

Starting a new poll

A poll is basically a topic with an added question and voting options, started by selecting New Poll instead of New Topic as described above. To post a poll, it is necessary to fill out the Question field and at least two of the Options fields, in addition to the Subject and Message fields required by a standard topic. Further options to configure how many choices the user may vote for, how long the poll should run, should be self-explanatory.

To offer more than five choices in a poll, users should simply select Add Option as many times as desired.

Depending on set permissions for certain membergroups, some users may be able to add a poll to an existing topic.

Poll Options

When adding or modifying polls, users have a lot of options available to suit their needs.

• Maximum votes per user - Under the Options field, the users will notice the Poll Option field, with the Maximum votes per user line. If the user would like voters to be able to vote more than once in a poll, they need to add the desired number of maximum votes per user.
• Run the poll for X days - If the user would like the poll to end or expire in a certain amount of days, they need to enter an integer in the Run the poll for X days field. If they leave this field blank, there will be no limit to how long the poll will run.
• Allow users to change vote - If the user would like to give the voters the option to change their votes, check the Allow users to change vote checkbox. If this option is left unchecked, voters will not be allowed to change their votes.
• Show the polls results to anyone - A user should select this option if they want anyone (members/guests) to be able to view the poll results.
• Only show the results after someone has voted - Users should select this option to show the poll's results only after a member has voted. Only registered members may vote in polls.
• Only show the results after the poll has expired - Users should select this option if they want to show the poll's results, only after the poll has expired. For this option to be available, they must have changed the Run the poll for X days field to a number above zero.
• Reset Vote Count - Users should check this if they want to reset all vote counts to zero.
• Save and Preview - Just like when a user wishes to post, they have the option of previewing their poll's changes before saving them.

All board moderators can edit the polls and do the above actions as well as view the results of the poll at any time while the poll is running.

Posting an Event to the Calendar

If the calendar is enabled on a forum and users are given the permission to post calendar events, users will be able to Post an Event to the calendar (en), by selecting Calendar from the main menu, followed by Post Event from the calendar screen. If the option is enabled, users may also be able to simply select the day of the month to post a new event on that day. In addition to this, if a user has the proper permissions, they may see a Link to Calendar link at the bottom of each topic. Selecting this link allows users to post a new Event in the calendar, linked to the topic they were viewing when they selected the Link to Calendar link.

Quoting a Post

To reply to a post by quoting it, you can either select the Quote button for the relevant post or select the Reply button followed by Insert Quote from the relevant post in the Topic Summary below, but note that:

• Both of these options add a link to the original post showing the name of the poster and the date and time of the post, whereas the Bulletin Board Code quote tag simply quotes the relevant post without this additional information.
• You can retain or add the 'author' attribute independently of the full quote function.

Modifying or Deleting a Post

To modify a post, select the Modify link or "paper and pencil" icon and make your changes. Most forums are likely to be configured to show the date and time of the last edit, but the administrator(s) may also allow a short period of time to elapse before this happens.

To delete a post, select the Remove button followed by OK from the Remove this message? box that will appear. Some forums may also allow you to remove topics or polls that you start, but the buttons for these are usually at the bottom of the page.

It is up to your forum's administrator to set the permissions that determine who will be allowed to Modify and Delete posts, and for how long after making the original post.

Viewing Unread Posts and Replies

SMF has several options for users to view unread posts. Unread posts are topics and replies that have not been viewed by the user. The most common way to view unread posts is through the links in the userbox near the top of the forum.

• View unread since last visit – Selecting this option displays a list of the topics which have had new posts in them since the user's last visit. The user has the ability to select to try all unread topics which will display any topic with unread posts, regardless of their last visit.
• View unread replies to your posts – Selecting this option displays a list of topics the user has participated in that have unread replies.

Users may also choose to view unread posts outside of the userbox.

• View Unread Posts by board - Selecting this option will display a list of topics with unread posts found inside the selected board.
• Recent posts on the board index - If enabled by the administrator, this will display a list of recent posts on the bottom of the board index. This is displayed by post, not by topic, so hot topics may dominate this section. Selecting the icon to the left of the recent posts will enable each post to be read from another screen.
• View Unread Posts by category - Selecting this option will display a list of unread posts from the boards inside the selected category.

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