solved profile forums?

so i just noticed the forums are personal on each persons profile, i thought they were all joined like anybody that logs in goes to profile click forum and will see the same forum is there a way to make that happen probably a button i missed lmao ?
updated by @zachary-moonshine: 08/21/15 03:54:43PM

nope, these are the fourms for "The Jamroom Network"
https://www.jamroom.net/the-jamroom-network/forum

These are the forums for "UltraJam"
https://www.jamroom.net/ultrajam/forum

If you only want to have one forum for the entire site, you can setup a profile in its own quota and make it so that its the only quota allowed to have a forum, like

"Friends of the Mountain Dulcimer" have done here:
http://fotmd.com/forums/forum

so i could give myself the master admin a seperate quata and make that the only one to have a forum bur all users would see it and be able to post ?

Sure, or you could create a different profile that is the only profile in that quota and make that profile the only profile to have a forum.

---"Sure, or you could create a different profile that is the only profile in that quota and make that profile the only profile to have a forum."

That's what i did Zach- I created a separate Quota called "Forum Quota", and then I created a new admin profile, gave it the username "Forums" (with an 's'....not "Forum" which would conflict with the site's "/forum" module location). I put the profile "Forums" as the only member to be in the Forum Quota quota...and that user is the only one to have forums allowed on their profile.

There is also a way to hide the profile sidebar/personal info of the profile "Forums" so it does not appear to be a member...just a forum. But maybe a JR Team guy can tell you how to do that.


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...just another satisfied Jamroom customer.
Migrated from Ning to Jamroom June 2015

But then would it be visible on everyones profile page and would they be able to use it?

Zach - This is a profile forum belonging to the profile "the-jamroom-network". You can post to it and its not showing on your profile page here - https://www.jamroom.net/zachary-moonshine
In the Forum module quota settings you can disable profile forums but still allow users to post to other forums, which is how this site is set up.
hth


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Paul Asher - JR Developer and System Import Specialist

It would not be a member's personal forum. You would have main site links to "Forum"...and all members could go to it and post there. You can put a main top navigation bar link to "Forum" as well. When mmebers go there, it would look like a forum area for the whole site.
If you enable memebr profile page forums- that means the member has their own personal forum they run on their own profile page. They could make it into anything they want, and allow/prevent create/delete stuff on it. So maybe you don't want members all having their own personal forums...
The ways we are saying make a site-wide forum that all members use, and that you control and lay out with your own categories.


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...just another satisfied Jamroom customer.
Migrated from Ning to Jamroom June 2015

Yes thats exactly what I want one big forum for all my peeps to use so I can engage with them faster as it is I cant keep up with what they do in there own forums I just was hoping it could stay within the profile menu but I see ut must be a custom page added to the main site menu

If that's what you want then you have to make a profile just for housing the site forum. Call the profile anything...I called mine Forums. Forums is then a member profile that I own- it's the ONLY member on my site which has "enable profile forum" checked. The link on the top header of my site is pointing to: http://fotmd.com/forums/forum
That url shows that the profile member is named "Forums" and the link points to the forum located on "Forums"' member profile. It's a bit confusing at first but less confusing later on.
When picking a name for the profile that you are going to locate your site-wide forum on...choose anything EXCEPT the word forum (with no s)- that would get the urls confused into thinking it was the module named Forum.... you can't have: site.com/forum/forum
But you CAN have site.com/forums/forum Or you could have anything else as your forum-owning profile username, like site.com/goofheadforumprofile/forum but that would look kinda dopey in the URL.


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Migrated from Ning to Jamroom June 2015
updated by @strumelia: 07/15/15 04:20:11PM

I call the profile called "home" in its own quota, the same as explained above. This quota can make a forum, groups, polls, file uploads, sell merchandise, etc. Your list of special features would be different, of course, but the idea is that the link is domain.com/home/forum and domain.com/home/groups, etc. I just choose something generic to name the general profile where I put all the content I create.

Of course, using the Link Mapper module you can make domain.com/forum go to domain.com/home/forum so the url is even easier to remember.
updated by @blindmime: 07/15/15 07:08:27PM

awesome i did it and it works thanks so much you guys jamroom rules!!
updated by @zachary-moonshine: 07/18/15 03:36:08PM