1: Hello - 2: This-Concepts - 3: Sign-Up - 4: Posting - 5: Formatting
Not everything is intuitive
Reading posts might be đ
Everything else requires you to be signed-in
Clicking âLikeâ (Tapping on a Touch-Screen) at the end of othersâ contributions might be intuitive too - where you appreciate the writerâs generosity to give their Time and Thoughts.
Itâs courtesy đ
We encourage vigorous debate of IDEAS - Always be mindful of respecting the person.
If you are not persuading then itâs your description of, and/or (&|) the content of your argument that is insufficient
A reaction might not be so intuitive (Click|Tap the face-smile-plus at the postâs end then click | tap your choice of icon). The Thumbs-up thumbs-up is EQUIVALENT to a Like, all the others thumbs-downface-laugh-squint face-confused=confused heart party-horn are additive to and in parallel to any likes you give (Hover your mouse_pointer to expand any text with a dotted underline - not possible on a Touch-Screen đ)
This post assumes youâve read Hello & Welcome and are therefore familiar with the concepts and vocabulary explained there
A few concepts to understand belowâŚ
More Display Layout Options: You can view the forum using either aâŚ
Browserâs Menu Access
A mobile device may be set to request either Desktop Site or Mobile Site View/Mode
Browser menu - 3 dots ââŽâ Top Right corner of your display
Desktop/ Mobile view is set by your browser not the forum software.
N.B. A dotted underline shows that a tooltip exists and is revealed by hovering a mouse-pointer (not possible with a Touch-Screen). Also applies to most links and images
- Access to change the View/Mode is (probably) by 3 dots
Top Right corner of the browserâs window (above the Forumâs window pane)
- After selecting an option near the end of the list selects between Desktop / Mobile View.
- Toggle âDesktop Siteâ (Wide-Screen Use Interface) or âMobileâ (Narrow-Screen)' on/off.
In âDesktop viewâ it is possible to zoom the displayed contents so triggering the Forum softwareâs choice of User Interface
Experimenting is easier(?) than explaining! đ
- âAdd to desktopâ adds a ShortCut to the desktop or phone-home screen that will open the forumâs Top-/Landing-/Home-page
- Install will create a PWA (Progressive Web Application) - a bowser based app that increases facilities (and/ but removes the browserâs menu and disables page zooming only when viewing the forum)
Screenshot of the Icon desktop-arrow-down in the Address Bar and towards the left of the orange box
The Desktop screenshot
Width 1380 Right
The Add/Install desktop-arrow-down option creates a link (installs a PWA) so you donât have to enter the URL and can receive Push Notifications of activity you have selected to be advised about (Checking-out âTailoring your Notifications in your profileâ is Recommended!
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Changing Your Deviceâs Selected View When In The App
IF you have downloaded and installed the App to view the forum - The browserâs menu isnât accessible in the appâs window! but the App still follows the browserâs setting đ
Open a browser window not the App
- Enter the forum URL
https://big-exams.logicalmodel.net/flarum
(maybe in incognito mode? to prevent automatic redirection to the App)
- Now you can use three dots ellipsis-vertical and select the option to toggle Mobile / Desktop Mode
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Sign-Up and Sign-In to do more than read
There are several equivalent ways to get to the Sign_Up/Sign-In page.
They are detailed in this thread đ Click | Tap to visit (then return here with the browserâs or your deviceâs back button) or visitHow-To (Forum) and pick Creating a User ID and Profile
Once Signed-Up and Signed-In
- A post is created in the Composer(Edit Window) that opens when you click a reply option below an existing post or Click | Tap a Start a Discussion button
You can have draft posts auto-saved if you have enabled that in your profile
- Posts are displayed in chronological order and grouped into Discussions also known as (aka) Threads
- Threads are started by/ with an Original Post or Opening Post (OP) created with a Start a Discussion button
- Threads/ Discussions have a title that (should!) describe what the subject they are discussing is.
Title, Tags and post content can be revised later using the little drop-down caret menu or the List Threads In Tag view
- Discussions are grouped by category otherwise known as a topic or otherwise known as a Tag.
- Every discussion thread must be tagged with a minimum of one topic but maybe tagged with more than one topic. The (main) purpose of tags is to make finding discussions relevant to your needs easier. Another purpose is that tags have permissions by User Group
Users and Groups and Permissions
The Intersection of Groups and Tags determines Access Rights
Users in Groups
- A user is anybody who comes and reads this site and does not need to have signed-up. Everyone in the Galaxy is a member of group Users đ
- A member is any user who has signed up so has a login
Hopefully they also have a profile Click | Tap >>>Here<<< if you need to add yours!
Logged-In Members have the permissions to create Posts and Threads in this Forum, give Likes and Reactions, vote in Polls
- Members can belong to other Groups in addition to Member.
- Group: ExamReviewers - Those members who are in the Group because they are also reviewers of candidate exam questions
- Group: WikiEditors - Those members who are also able to edit wiki posts (anybody can create one).
A wiki post is an OP that starts a Thread and has been Tagged #wikipost
- Other Groups and Tags and Permissions will be created as we need them!
- Moderator and Admin Group members have further permissions to deal with Flagged Posts, Split and Merge Threads, Create Tags, Add Links in the Menus/ Forumâs page-banner
Group and Permissions
- When a Member is also a member of more than just the group âAll Membersâ there access permissions are the aggregate of the group permissions they belong to
- Group members can be messaged as a group
- Groups are granted permissions / restrictions that apply to tags
- Permissions relate to: Reading/ Viewing, Creating/ Tagging/ Uploading, Participation/ Flagging, Moderation = Renaming/ ReTagging/ Deleting/ Edit others contributions
Tags are for Retrieval
Tags are this softwareâs name for Categories; groupings of Threads (a chronological series of Posts in a âConversationâ.)
When starting a Discussion/ Thread please think
how to Tag it so that others will find it when searching for themes of interest đ
Tags are applied when a Thread is created but they are used when Threads are considered for retrieval and access
A Tag maybe of type: Hierarchical or Universal
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For example the top level may be: Animals | Plants | Minerals.
The bottom level within might then be Equine | Bovine | ⌠within Animals, Potatoes | Apples | Roses | ⌠within Vegetable and Gold | Granite | ⌠within Minerals.
A thread must have at least one Top-Level Tag - Even if that is Misc-(ellaneous).
A Thread can have more than one Top-Level Tag.
A Thread may have zero or more bottom level more qualifying categories as well.
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As well as hierarchical tags to place threads into topics a thread may also have zero or more Universal tags.
Universal tags can be applied to any thread in any topic.
Examples might be Purchasing, Storing, Caring For, which could apply to a variety of topics such as Animals or Roses
Retrieving Discussions by Tag Rather than By Time or Popularity orâŚ
âŚeither showing memberâs contributions organised by TAGS (which is the Forumâs Default and may-be most suited to new users still unfamiliar with the structure)
or
by All Discussions (which is, perhaps best suited to frequent users)
Thatâs 4 combinations (2 views & 2 modes!) Mostly the following explanation applies whichever combination you have set.
Posts are always displayed chronologically within Threads
Each contribution to the forum is a Post written and formatted in the Composer/ Editor by a Community Member
- >>>For formatting details click here<<<
- A set of reply posts displayed in chronological order after an Original Post is a Thread or Discussion.
- All threads start with an OP - Original Post (aka an Opening Post) that MUST be tagged to at least one tag and can have more than one.
- The âAll Discussionsâ display lists all threads in an order selected by the Sort Button Top-Left of the list.
Pinned threads first then all other threads in the order selected from:
Latest | Top | Newest | Oldest | Popular | UnPopular
- The table-cells-large Tags option display shows all Tags for selection of one THEN all threads Tagged with that tag are listed in an order selectable from the listing page
- Each Thread is listed with
- Avatar for who posted it,
- Possibly with one or more badges to show which groups the OPâs Author belong to,
- Maybe a yellow star to say you are following the thread (will be notified about new activity on the thread)
If you have set your Notifications
- Possible other icons (See Below)
- The threadâs Title,
- comment The number of replies the thread has received,
- The full list of categories the thread is tagged with and
- eye An eye-icon with the number of views the thread has had
- Members can reply and or like and or react to any post they have permission to access
- Moderators can split or merge threads to maintain the alignment of content to the tagged Category/ Subject/ Topic and Re-Title and Re-Tag Threads (and if required edit other memberâs post)
- Members can adjust the Thread Title and Thread Tags of threads they create (are the author of the OP)
- Members can Flag for moderator attention any post they feel is not within the spirit o the communityâs values
Group plus Tag = Permission
- A Thread has Tags,
- Users have membership of Groups
- Groups have freedoms and restrictions under Tags
- The âNoticeâ is an unwanted artefact I donât yet(!) know how to avoid. This section is in a âNoticeâ because how Group identifiers are displayed seems to have a bug that makes them disappear with some supposedly compatible formats đ
The Group: @ExamReviewers and TagExamReview
- Group: Users can view any unrestricted Tagâs posts but not add to them
- Group: Members has Usersâ Rights and Restrictions plus may view the Directory of Members and there Bios, Start and Contribute to Threads, has Download and Upload privileges, may Create Draft posts, Create Polls
- Threads taggedExamReview are Restricted by default
- Members of @ExamReviewers have the View and Edit privilege granted forExamReview tag
- TagExamReview is set to be List-able (not Readable) and Create-able by Group: Members (once created itâs âŚ? to be tested!
- Note: (There is the ability for) Posts can be contributed Anonymously by Members and post content can be redacted in several ways such as revealed after giving a Like | after Logging In | ⌠- See >>>Formatting Posts<<<
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