Web-based Project Management | Online Project Collaboration | Project Forums

	Forums
	Forums are interactive message boards where one can post a topic and let ideas flow back and forth. Any group project involves discussions, unlike emails, all the forum topics are available at a central location and is easily accessible by anyone involved in the group project.

Key Features
New Forum Post Edit Forum Post Delete Forum Post Post a Reply View Replies	Update Comment Delete Comment Add Category Edit / Delete Category

New Forum Post
Want to discuss about a critical issue in a project or any design requirements for next phase ? You can do so by posting your requirements, critical issues or share your ideas using forums. To add a new forum post : 1. Click on New Forum Post link and dialogbox opens up 2. In this Typein forum title, add contents and also you can embed video clips, presentations etc (Eg : Videos from YouTube , Presentations from Zoho Show) 3. Select a category under which your forum topic will get posted 4. Attach files (if required), select project members to notify about the topic and click on Submit icon Now you can start your discussions right away.	Want to discuss about a critical issue or any design requirements for next phase ? You can do so by posting your requirements, critical issues or share your ideas using forums. To add a new forum post : 1. Click on New Forum Post link and dialogbox opens up 2. In this typein title, add contents and also you can embed video clips, presentations etc (Eg : Videos from YouTube , Presentations from Zoho Show) 3. Select a category under which your forum topic will get posted 4. Attach files, select members to notify about the topic and click on Submit icon You can start your discussions right away.
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Edit Forum Post
Oops !...forgot making an important point or missed any documents for your forum topic. No problem. You can edit your forum post and can make relevant changes To Edit a Forum post 1. Just click on Edit Forum Post and this will open up with editable contents 2. In this make required changes like edit forum title, add attachments etc and save the changes That's it. Your forum post will reflect the latest changes	Oops !...forgot making an important point or missed any documents for your forum topic. No problem. You can edit your forum post and can make relevant changes. To edit a forum post : 1. Just click on Edit Forum Post and this will open up with editable contents 2. In this make required changes like edit forum title, add attachments etc and save the changes That's it. Your forum post will reflect the latest changes
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Delete Forum Post
It's easy. Just click on Delete Forum Post icon. An alert message will get displayed and clicking on OK will trash your forum post forever.	It's easy. Just click on Delete Forum Post icon. An alert message will get displayed and clicking on OK will remove your forum post forever.
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Post a Reply
There may be a discussion going on of your interrest and you would wish to make a point or share your ideas. So for this Post a Reply option comes handy. To post a reply : 1. Click on Post a Reply link and this will display a text area 2. Type in your contents as reply and if you want to attach files use attach option 3. Now select team members whom you wish to get notified 4. Click on Post a Reply icon Your reply will get posted and reply count for this forum post will get incremented by one.	There may be a discussion going on of your interrest and you would wish to make a point or share your ideas. So for this Post a Reply option comes handy. To post a reply : 1. Click on Post a Reply link and this will display a text area. 2. Type in your contents as reply and if you want to attach files use attach option. 3. Now select team members whom you wish to get notified. 4. Click on Post a Reply icon. Your reply will get posted and reply count for this forum post will get incremented by one.
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View Replies
To see replies posted for a forum post : 1. Just click on the replies link 2. This will show up the page containing the replies with username and comments (if any)	To see replies posted for a forum post : 1. Just click on the replies link 2. This will show up the page containing the replies with username and comments (if any)
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Update Comment
After posting a reply you may feel like you would have missed few details that needs to be added and this can be done with Update Comment option To update a comment : 1. Click on Edit forum reply and Update Comment page will open with the existing contents 2. Make necessary changes in the contents and click on Update icon This will show the latest updated contents.	After posting a reply you may feel like you would have missed few details that needs to be added and this can be done with Update Comment option. To update a comment : 1. Click on Edit forum reply and Update Comment page will open with the existing contents. 2. Make necessary changes in the contents and click on Update icon. This will show the latest updated contents.
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Delete Comment

To delete a comment :

1. Just click on Delete link of your reply
2. A alert message will get displayed along with a OK / Cancel button
3. Clicking on OK will delete the comment made by you

To delete a comment :

1. Just click on Delete link of your reply.
2. A alert message will get displayed along with a OK / Cancel button.
3. Clicking on OK will delete the comment made by you.

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Add Category
All forum posts made by you needs to be categorized and organized so that it can be useful for you and your team To facilitate this we've add category option : 1. Click on Add Category this will open up a dialog box. 2. In this typein Category name and click on Add Category icon This will create a new category for you and you can start organizing your forum posts	All forum posts made by you needs to be categorized and organized so that it can be useful for you and your team. To facilitate this we've add category option : 1. Click on Add Category this will open up a dialog box. 2. In this typein Category name and click on Add Category icon This will create a new category for you and you can start organizing your forum posts.
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Edit / Delete Category

To edit a category :

1. Hover on category name and edit icon

will get displayed
2. Click on the edit icon this will open up with editable contents
3. Change the category name and save it.

Your category name got changed.

To delete a category :

1. Hover on category name will display trash can icon Delete

2. Clicking on this trash can will wipe out the category forever

To edit a category :

1. Hover on category name and edit icon Edit will get displayed.
2. Click on the edit icon this will open up with editable contents.
3. Change the category name and save it.

Your category name got changed.

To delete a category :

1. Hover on category name will display trash can icon Delete
2. Clicking on this trash can will wipe out the category forever.

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