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Access to Forums via iViews

SAP delivers views on forums, which allow you to make the forums and their administrative functions accessible via portal iViews. A view is a set of screens designated for specific portal roles like the administration or the use of forums. To make a view accessible, you need to assign it to a portal iView, which can be accessed by users having the respective portal role.

Besides a whole view you can assign specific screens of a view to iViews. Thus you can make - for example - the thread list or the moderation screen accessible via separate iViews.

Note

The basic iViews needed to work with forums are configured within the installation procedure. If required, you can change the configuration of the available iViews or create new ones to make additional forum functions accessible in the portal.

The following figure illustrates the procedure of creating forum iViews. 

Procedure

Creating a Forum iView

  1. In the portal, choose Content Administration ( → Portal Content).
  2. In the Portal Content Studio locate the target folder for your new iView.
  3. In the target folder's context menu, choose New → iView.
  4. In the list of iView templates select the one created as a copy of the default iView template for forums.
    Note

    The installation procedure includes the creation of a custom iView template for forum iViews in order to allow the customization of this template and to make sure, that your specific template settings are not overwritten by updates.

  5. Enter the required values and in the last step choose Finish.
  6. Select the option Open the object for editing (and configure the forum iView as described below).

Configuring a Forum iView

You have either chosen to open a newly created iView for editing (as described above) or opened an existing forum iView for editing.

  1. In the property editor of the forums iView, choose the property category Forums Configuration.
  2. For View on Forums select the view to be displayed in this iView:
    View on Forums Description

    Forums

    Displays the Forums Home page (giving access to forums)

    Forums Administration

    Displays the Admin Console (giving access to all administrative functions)

    Add Forums Administrator User

    Displays the tool to assign a portal user as the initial forums system administrator, who can access the Admin Console

    Note

    Setting this property is mandatory.

  3. Optional: If you want to display a specific screen of  the selected view (Forums or Forums Administration), enter the target URL of this screen as value of the property Target iView Within the View on Forums. 

    Determine the target URL of a screen as follows:

    1. Open the view on forums containing the specific target screen - e. g. the forum's thread list.
    2. From the target screen's context menu, open its properties.
    3. Copy the Address (URL) and paste it in the address field of a new internet explorer window.
    4. From the address displayed copy the value of the ForumsTarget URL parameter.
    5. Paste this string into the value field of the iView property.In case the characters ? and = are not displayed, replace the string %3f by ? and %3d by = .
      Tip  

      For example, to display the forum's thread list (ID=2) in the iView, enter the target URL forum.jspa?forumID=2 .

      Note

      If the view Add Forums Administrator User is selected, this property is not relevant.

  4. Save your changes.