This is the first page that you will see when you visit mvnForum.
You should register for an account. By registering, you have many benefits such as post new thread, reply to a post, customize your profile and many other features.
Note that when registering, you can choose the displayed language and your timezone. Currently mvnForum has been localized to 16 languages.
With mvnForum, you can view all online users and what they are doing. In RC2 release Admin can view the IP and UserAgent of online users.
This is where you can view and participate to the discussion thread. You can edit your post or attach files in this page too (if you have permission).
Note that if you are a Moderator, you will see links to edit/delete post or delete the whole thread, and if you are an Admin, you can view further information such as first post IP and last post IP.
You will have many mvnCode tags to format your post, and the Post Preview button will help you ensure the final result is what you expects.
In this screenshot, the post is previewed and it also shows off many mvnCode tags.
You can attach as many attachments as you wish (if you have attachment permission and you do not exceed the attachment size limit set by your Admin)
Note that Moderator can delete any attachments at any time.
mvnForum use powerful Lucene search engine to make searching as easy and accurate as possible. You can combine the search criteria with text, member id, forum/category. In RC2 there will be more search options.
The result of your searching is shown in this screenshot. If there are many pages returned, you will be provided a pagination to navigate the search result.
You can click on the member id/member name to see the detailed information of this member. This page also show the online/offline status of the member.
My Profile is central place that you can edit all of your information and options. Some of the functionalities you can do include change information, change password, change avatar, manage your watch, etc.
Avatar is a small picture that represents you and is shown near your name in View Thread and other pages. You can choose predefined avatar or you can upload your own avatar. Unlike many other forums, mvnForum will automatically check if the avatar is a valid image format (gif, jpeg, png) and shrink the size if is bigger than allowed size.
My Watch is the central management that you can manage all your watches. A watch is a email subscription to a thread, a forum, a category or it could be global watch. (If you subscribe a global watch, you will receive email update of all changes in the discussion board)
You can stop (delete) your watch at any time later.
You can easily add four types of watch that suit your need. The watch types are thread watch, forum watch, category watch and global watch.
mvnForum currently have been localized to 16 languages. You can change the locale easily in your profile and the new language will be shown immediately.
Sample screenshot shows Vietnamese mvnForum in action.
Sample screenshot shows Chinese mvnForum in action.
Moderator can delete any offended threads/posts/attachments at any time.
2. Administrator Control Panel Zone
This index page in the Admin Zone give you a lot of essential information about mvnForum, database, Servlet Container, etc. It also gives you many handy links to administer your forum.
After you install mvnForum, you should check this page to make sure that all required libraries has been installed properly.
Manage all your users in this page. You can pre-register user, enable/disable users and change their information.
You can pre-register member here. It will help you reserve the username from being registered by other users.
mvnForum's permission is based on group concept. A group could include many users and have different permissions. This page let you easily manage your groups and their permissions.
You can add many users to a group at the same time.
And you can change the permission of your groups easily.
mvnForum's powerful Forum Management let you administer many things with your forums/categories. You can also change the order of your forums/categories intuitively.
Forum Admin can delete any forums/categories, so be careful when you give your user the "Forum Admin" permission.
A handy tool that let you send email easily. It also helps you to test if the email is working properly or not.
Thanks for your interest in mvnForum.