Thank you to both of you. I'll share this with the team.
And lastly, are your forum's topics sorted in to their correct forum categories? This is a far superior way of organizing, than keyword tagging.
Yes, we have about 14 different forums, each covering a different course we publish. One course/forum may have many topics to it (see photo reading forum:
https://www.learningstrategies.com/forum/ubbthreads.php?ubb=cfrm ), and at one point we were making archived sub-forum that we were porting threads to as an easier way to get meatier results from the search engine.
Control Panel > Site Permissions > Minimum time between searches
Set GUESTS to 60, USERS to 10... or something that works best for you.
Control Panel > Site Permissions > Can use the Search Engine
Set GUESTS to 0, Everyone else to 1.
Good suggestion
1) will all the old post get tagged too?
Yes, the purpose is to pull up older posts that get cut off with the results or year limits.
2) will everyone be able to tag, or just a select few members?
Good question
4) to prevent abuse, will there be a preset group of words that each topic is allowed to be tagged with?
Yes.
5) why are your topics not arranged by forum groups? .
They are.
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Best,
Shawn
