Some useful V - Bullettin tips for this forum

[sujithsukrutham]

Friends our Forum software V -Bullettin has many features that most of us usually ignore / not aware. Here starting a thread to post the useful V bulletin tips. I think it will be useful for beginners and regulars. Plz post other tips/ guides known to you.
Linking to a single post:
There are plenty of interesting heads on the forum and quite frequently you may want to share a gem with your friends or colleagues. It could be a ser of links to others sites or a few wall papers. Copying threads URL is really simple abut that brings additional confusion for the user who has to then look through multiple pages for the post. V bulletin creates a link for every single post and each one of them has post number. You can find this next to every post on the right denoted as #___. Clicking on it opens a new tab or window with just that post. U can copy this URL and send it to your friends.

Quickly mark the forum Read
If u feel that nothing to read new in the forum then go to Mark Forum read. U can go for marking individual sections also read.


Social Groups
All the users on the forum have a common interest: but within every single interest there’s always a niche topic. Members with these common interests can create social groups. Separates subsections in the forums cab be setup so users in particular social groups are given permission to view and post
Social groups can be accessed by clicking on Quick Links > Social Groups. You can also search for created groups in the search box of social groups
Our forum doesn’t have much social groups (Decide it is required or not)

Disabling automatic subscriptions
Every thread u replies to automatically get added to your subscription list. This can be disabled by first going to user CP to the Messaging and Notification section. Click the dropdown menu for Default Thread Subscription Mode and choose Do not subscribe. Click on Save Changes Button at the bottom of the page.

To get the statistics of this forum:
Go thru this link
India Broadband Forum - Top 50 Stats

Reference: Digit

[sujithsukrutham]

Invisible mode:

Invisible mode allows you to browse the forums without appearing in the 'Currently Active Users' lists.


Download all private messages

Forum lets the users send private messages to one another this forum permits only 50 Messages. If your inbox filled up the u can down load the message to your computer. At the bottom right of the Private Messages folder u will find an option to Download all Private messages as: Choose from XML, CSV and TXT. U will be prompted to select where the file should be downloaded



Choosing your editor preferences


Every forum has a some posting utility at the bottom of every page. If u choose Advanced, your are then taken to a page with all the formatting controls displayed. There are also tools to add mages, links, bullets numbed etc

If u want a more detailed editor in the thread page, then in the user CP, scroll down to miscellaneous Editor interface. Click on the dropdown for message interface Editor and choose the kind of editor u want


Thread display oldest newest


Thread length

Long threads go on forever and switching from page to page can be slow and painful. This can be reduced by increasing the number of posts in a page. This is possible by changing the value of “Number of Post to Show per page in the Thread Display options section under User CP.



Some very useful additional feature which is not provided in this forum (Hope admin will do the needful)

Wide screen images

Attaching large high resolution images into the thread isn’t usually encouraged. User with slower connections have to wait a long time for the images to loads and those with screens with low resolutions have to scroll a lot to view the images

V bulletin automatically resizes that image resolution to fit your screen buy default, there is setting put in the user CP. This can be modified so if u have a larger screen, the images are resized to that width or height, (This features comes under Thread Display option in user CP and this is not enabled in our forum by admin)