The following settings need to be checked so guests can pass a comment as well:

1. The permission comment_create needs to assigned to the user role Guest. Note: If the permission does not exist already, then you need to add it with exact this name "comment_create".
2. Guests need to fill out a captcha to pass comments. The style of the captcha can be chosen here in Tools & Administration > Portal Settings > Server & Services > External Services & API > Captcha.
3. Guests can now enter their name when commenting or a alias. Members can have the same choice: Network & Community > Network Settings > General > Section Comments.

Main and sub menus can only be a number, like 123, if the URL path gets changed. Otherwise the speaking URLs return a 404 error.

Solution: In the section "Marketing & CRM > SEO360° > URLs" change the corresponding URL path. Alternatively you can use letters in the menu (onetwothree) instead of numbers.

Go to Portal Manager > Tools & Administration > Design & Layout. In the navigation on the left click General Settings, in the section Navigation you can change the color in the lines Navigation: Color and Background Color.

The tools area is a Design Module, which can be find here: Tools & Administration > Design & Layout > Master Design & Design Module/Design Module > $iconMenus. By clicking the name of the module you get to the editing mode. Modifications concerning the landing page need to be done in the Master Design-Template.

The tag cloud is a Design Module, which can be find here: Tools & Administration > Design & Layout > Master Design & Design Module/Design Module > $tagCloud. By clicking the name of the module you get to the editing mode. Modifications concerning the landing page need to be done in the Master Design-Template.

No, application links cannot be used as sub-menus. Application links can only be used as main menus or special links independent from the menu structure.

1. You add a normal menu (Website & CMS > Menus > Add), but you don't check the ckeckbox active, if the menu should not be visible on the portal.
2. Then you can choose this menu as an archive under Website & CMS > Menus > Settings in the area Archive Menu.

All expired stories are saved in the archive manu automatically.

When you activate in the settings of the tags (Tools & Administration > Tags > Settings) Checkbox for stories, thus the CMS area, you have to add tags then (under Tools & Administration > Tags > Overview/Add), so they are then visibile and selectable when adding a story.

In SITEFORUM we call Stories which are shown from top to bottom (not only title and short description) Lead Stories.

You create a Lead Story in the same way as you create any other story. There is only one option to activate while creating the story:

In Step 5 you set the time range. Next to the selection boxes you find a column "Lead Story". Activate respectively this option to make your story to a Lead Story.

If you want to distribute the logins on your own, if you want only certain users to register, then you can deactivate the link "Sign up now", so only users, who have a login already, can log in: Tools & Administration > Portal Settings > Login & Password > Allow self-enrollment.

No, a story has to be assigned to a menu.

But e.g. when you want to collect stories which don't appear in the portal immediatley, you can add a menu which works like a container. The difference to the other menus is that this container menu is not active (Checkbox "Active" not checked). Therewith the menu does not get displayed in the portal.

The sorting of main menus has to be made in the area Design & Layout, submenus can be sorted in the area Menus by clicking the arrows of the column Position.

To re-sort main menus

1. click Sort main menus in design in the navigation on the left.
2. Click in the upper table in the column Name the link main menus.
3. Now click the arrows in the column Change position to move the menus up or down respectivley right or left.

With the help of the WYSIWYG editor it is very easy to link inside a story to a document (or any other element), which was uploaded in the DMS:

1. Markthe word from which you want to start the link.
2. Click in the WYSIWYG editor the icon insert/edit Link (Globe with chain). A new window opens up.
3. Click in the new window the button Browse Server.
4. Choose from the selection box the link type, here Link to Document (DMS).
5. Choose from the selection box the Folder, in which the desired document was uploaded.
6. Choose from the selection box the desired Document.
7. Click the button Create. A placeholder gets created with which you call the desired document up. You can use the placeholder manually in the source code, if you have HTML skills.
8. Click the link Copy to FCK editor. The second window closes.
9. In the first window click the button Ok.

And done.

To every user, who got the role "Document Manager", the folder(s) and subfolder(s) have to be assigned, which he/she is allowed to edit.

1. Go to the overview of the Document Managers (Intranet & Backoffice > Documents (DMS) > Document Managers)
2. Select the corresponding Document Manager.
3. Click the icon Assign.
4. Activate the desired folder(s) and subfolder(s).
5. Click the button Save.

To every user, who got the role "Editor", the menu(s) have to be assigned, which he is allowed to edit.

1. Go to the overview of the Editors (Website & CMS > Workflows > Editors/Overview)
2. Select the corresponding Editor.
3. Click the icon Assign.
4. Activate the desired menus.
5. Click the button Save.

An application link is a link which leads to an application, e.g. to the Document Management System (DMS), to polls or to forums.

DMS is short for Document Management System, which is a system for the administration of public-accessiible files.

The link "Documents", which leads to the Document Management System (DMS), is a so-called Application Link and can be modified at any time:
Tools & Administration > Design & Layout > Applikation Links/Overview > Tab DMS > Documents. You can translate the link in all available languages at once.

The File System (Tools & Administration > Files) is for an internal administration of files of all kinds, e.g. the portal stores neccessary SEO files (Search Engine Optimization) automatically. Images needed for the layout of the portal or placed in stories are saved in the files system as well.

The Document Management System is for public provision of documents or files. That means that your employees, partners or customers can - depending on their access rights - access the DMS on the portal surface with its folders and files and download and save the files.

In each story you can provide links to other stories or menus in the long description by using the Link Generator.
E.g. link to a menu:
<a href="$menuID:MenuID">Menu Name</a>