The Board Index is the central part to the opening (home) page of the forum. It is here where you will find a listing of all the categories and boards that you are allowed access to.

The exact appearance of the Board Index is affected by the options chosen by the administrator, as well as by the theme. When the SMF default theme is used, the board index normally looks something like this:

• The navigation tree, located at the top of the Board Index, helps facilitate browsing through the different boards and child boards. On the Board Index it consists only of the forum name and links right back to the top of this board index.
• The Mark as Read button enables registered members to mark all posts in the entire forum as read. This will clear the list of posts in the Unread Posts section of Forum Header.
• Category names are highlighted with a category name background.
  • If the category is collapsible, clicking the category name collapses (hides) or expands (shows) boards that belong to this category.
  • The Unread Posts link connects you to a list of all the posts from all the boards in this category which you have not yet read.
• Within each Category, you will see listed one or more boards.
  • The board name links to the Message Index for that board.
  • The board description describes the board's content, and may also include links to child boards and/or specify the board's moderator(s).
  • The New Posts or No New Posts icons, usually in the leftmost column, show registered members whether there have been any new posts to the board since they last read it. Some boards have child boards within them and in this case the "new posts in child board" icon shows that there are new posts, but only in a child board.

The template file for the Board Index is: BoardIndex.template.php