Bulletin Board Application

Provides XWiki users with a basic yet effective Bulletin Board (Forum) feature

Description

Bulletin Board Home

The Bulletin Board Application works as a standard XWiki Application. It gives you the possibility to create new categories and discuss topics within them. Creating a new category is allowed only to admins, who can do so from a field on the Bulletin Board's front page. Then new topics can be created within existing categories.

Categories

The Bulletin Board can be divided into categories according to the wishes of its admins. Admins can delete categories, topics as well as individual messages. Each category has a title as well as a short descriptions of its subject. RSS Feeds are available for the whole Bulletin Board as well as for every single category.

Topics

Conversation are built sorted in topics. Each topics has its own thread of replies. You can quote previous messages and answer them. As of now, it is recommended that the number of messages on any given topic page does not exceed 50 to keep an acceptable level of performance. 

Bulletin Board Skin

The current Bulletin Board Skin has been chosen to match Albatross, Toucan & Colibri's color schemes. Its look can be adapted to suit another website's needs easily. All the CSS is stored on the BBCode.Skin wiki page. Edit it in wiki mode, change the values you need to and you're done!

Prerequisites & Installation Instructions

1. Log in the wiki with a user having Administration rights
2. Go to the Administration page and select the Import category
3. Follow the on-screen instructions to upload the downloaded XAR
4. Click on the uploaded XAR and follow the instructions

• Click on the "administration" link at the top right corner
• Step 1 : Import the application
  • Click on the "import" tab
  • Upload the Bulletin+Board.xar file
  • Click on its name once it can be seen in the list
  • Click on "import" -> the application is now available on your wiki
• Step 2 : Tell the wiki where to find the right languages resources
  • In the administration menu, click on "Programming"
  • Scroll in this menu until you see "Internationalization Document Bundles"
  • In that field, copy-paste the following text : "BBCode.Translations,"
  • Save the page.
• Step 3 : setup your Bulleting Board Panels
  • Go to the http:///xwiki/bin/view/Panels/PanelWizard page
  • Select your favorite layout. You need to have at least one column to use the task panels.
  • Drag & Drop the bulleting board panel from the panel list in the center to the side column of your choice. There is one panel built specifically for the Bulletin Board: Panels.BulletinBoardList
  • Click on "Save the new layout" at the bottom of the page. You're done!
• Your application is now available on the following page: http:///xwiki/bin/view/BBCode/
• One default Bulleting Board is included with the application. You can view it at http:///xwiki/bin/view/BulletinBoard/

Release Notes

Release notes for version 1.3: