| How do I configure the strConnString? |
DSN:
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MS Access DSN-less:
strConnString = "DRIVER={Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb)}; DBQ=c:\www\mywebsite.com\db\database.mdb
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| What's Table Name Prefix? |
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Table Name Prefix is used if you have multiple versions of the portal running in the same database. This way you can name the tables differently and still use one user to connect. (eg. PORTAL_)
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What's Site Title?
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Site Title is the title that shows up in the upper right hand corner of the portal. It is also used in email's to show where the email came from when posting replies are sent and when new users register.
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What's Copyright?
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This copyright statements location is basicaly saying that any topics or replies that are posted are copyrighted material of your organization. This copyright location also helps to copyright the images of your logo and any other material that may be posted on portal pages.
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What's Title Image?
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Use a relative path to point to the image you want to show up in the upper left-hand corner of your site.
For example:
site_logo.gif
This points to the bboard_mwp.gif graphic in the same directory, whereas the following would point to the root of the web server and up into the base /images/ directory:
../images/site_logo.gif
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What's the Home URL?
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The Home URL is the base address for your website. An example would be:
www.maxwebportal.com
NOTE: Include the full path of the URL whether that begin with http:// in front or a relative URL such as ../.
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Authorization Type?
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You can either select DataBase or NT Domain authorization.
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Graphic Buttons?
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By enabling this feature, the portal will use pictures/graphics instead of the default buttons for "Submit" and "Reset" etc...
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Time Display?
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Choose 24Hr to display all times in military (24 hour) format or 12Hr to display all times in 12 hour format appended with an AM or PM depending on whether it's before or after midday. Default is 24 hour.
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Date Display?
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Choose the format you wish all dates to be displayed in. Default is 12/31/2000 (US Short).
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Time Adjustment?
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Enter either a positive or negative integer value between +12 and 0 and -12. This may come in handy if your located in one part of the world, and your server is in another, and you need the time displayed in the portal to be converted to a local time for you! (Default value is 0, meaning no adjustment)
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What does Email do?
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Disabling the Email function will turn off any features that involve sending mail. If you don't have an SMTP server of any type, you will want to turn this feature off. If you do have an SMTP (mail) server, however, then also select the type of server you have from the dropdown menu.
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What is a Mail Server Address?
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The mail server address is the actual domain name that resolves your mail server. This could be something like:
mail.maxwebportal.com
or it could be the same address as the web server:
www.maxwebportal.com
Either way, don't put the http:// on it.
NOTE: If you are using CDONTS as a mail server type, you do not need to fill in this field.
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Administrator Email Address?
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This address is referenced by the portal in a couple ways.
- When mail is sent, it is sent from this user email account.
- This user is also the point of contact given if there is a problem with the portal.
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Unique Email Address?
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Do you want to require each user to have their own email address?
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| Email Validation? |
Do you want to require each user to validate their e-mail address when they first Register and anytime they change their e-mail address?
The user will receive an e-mail with a link in it that will validate that the e-mail address they entered is a valid e-mail address.
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Require Logon for sending Mail?
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Do you require a user to be logged on before being able to use the Send Topic To a Friend or Email Poster options ?
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What are Private Forums?
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Private Forums enable you to only allow certain members to see that the forum exists. If it's only password protected, everyone can see that it exists, however, they are prompted for a password to get in.
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Why Restrict Moderators from Moving Posts?
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This feature either allows or dis-allows a Moderator of one forum to move topics within their forum to someone else's forum where they do not have moderator rights.
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Showing Ranks?
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- Don't Show Any
- Show Rank Only
- Show Stars Only
- Show Both Stars and Rank
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What is IP Logging?
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IP Logging will record in the database the IP address of the person who posted a new Topic or Reply. A moderator or administrator then could view the IP by clicking on an icon above the post in the topic.
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What does Show Moderators do?
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Basically, if this function is on, it shows the name of the moderator beside the forum that they moderate on the main default page. If it is off, however, visitors won't see who is moderating the forum they are posting in.
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Enable Forum Code?
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By turning off Forum Code, you can allow users to mark up their posts with safe codes.
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Why would I allow HTML?
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By allowing HTML you are opening up a whole big can of worms. You may wish to allow HTML in a controlled INTRANET environment,though. It is not recommended to be used on the INTERNET as anyone can post anything without your being able to screen it. IE Pornographic pictures, JavaScript that messes up your pages, etc...
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What is featured poll?
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Featured poll is the poll that shows up on the front page.
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What is Allow Member Poll?
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This allow members to create their own polls. Only admins and moderator can create new polls if this feature is disabled.
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What are Hot Topics?
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Hot Topics change the topic folder icon in the Forum view from a normal folder to a flaming folder to let people know that your minimum number of posts has been met to categorize this topic as one that is seeing a lot of action.
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Why enable Images in Posts?
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Allows users to place images into their Posts. However, you should be aware that this feature would allow anyone to post ANY image in your forums. This may lead to broken links and potentially objectionable material being displayed.
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What is Homepages For?
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Allow your users to display their homepage link by their name on each post.
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What is the ICQ Option For?
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Turns On/Off features that allow users to enter their ICQ number... then for other users to send them ICQ messages and/or see if they are online.
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What is the YAHOO Option For?
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Turns On/Off features that allow users to enter their YAHOO username... then for other users to send them messages and/or add them to their buddy list.
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What is the AIM Option For?
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Turns On/Off features that allow users to enter their AIM username... then for other users to send them messages and/or add them to their buddy list.
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What do Icons do?
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Allow users to post smiley faces and other icons allowed by the Forums within the body of their posts!
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What does Detailed Statistics do?
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Turns On/Off the display of detailed statistics (last visited date and time, last post, active topics, newest member) at the bottom of the forum.
When turned off, some statistics are displayed at the top of the page.
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Show Administration?
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NOTE: This feature will go away by the time version 4.0 comes out and will utilize cookies (or some similar method) to determine what a user may or may not see.
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Secure Admin Mode?
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WARNING: Only turn Secure Admin off if you absolutely need to. If this option is turned off, anyone can change your portal's configuration!
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Why would I want Non-Cookie Mode on?
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If your user base does not use cookies, then you would want to turn this function "ON". WARNING: all your admin functions will be visible to all users if this function is "ON".
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Color of Stars?
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You can change the color of stars that show up for each rank of member. (only when the Stars function is turned on)
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What would Edited By on Date do?
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When a post is edited, there is an appending to the end of the post that says when and by whom the post was edited. Turning this function off would make it so that the footer would not be placed on the end of the post.
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Bad Word Filter?
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Screen out words you and your guests would find offensive.
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How does Column Width Work?
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This sets the width of the column in question. It is not recommended that you change this unless you really know what your doing.
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What is NOWRAP?
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NOWRAP prevents the text in a column from auto wrapping. This could be bad if you have people posting long strings of text in the right column (message box), reason being: this would cause an awful long horizontal scroll bar in most cases.
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Font Face Type?
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Font Face Type changes the way the text in your portal looks. You may want to change this option to match that of the rest of your web site. Some standards are:
- Arial (nice, clean, legible font)
- Courier (a typewriter font)
- Helvetica (another clean, legible font)
- Sans Serif (Arial & Helvetica are variants of Sans Serif)
- Times New Roman (a book-type font)
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What does Font Size mean?
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- 1 = 8 point font X-Small (default footer size)
- 2 = 10 point font Small (default font size)
- 3 = 12 point font Normal
- 4 = 14 point font Large (default header size)
- 5 = 18 point font X-Large
- 6 = 24 point font XX-Large
- 7 = 36 point font XXX-Large
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What are Font Decorations?
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- none
- blink
- line-through
- overline
- underline
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| What colors may I use? |
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There are a lot of different colors you can choose from, all of which are listed below:
aliceblue
antiquewhite
aqua
aquamarine
azure
beige
bisque
black
blanchedalmond
blue
blueviolet
brown
burlywood
cadetblue
chartreuse
chocolate
coral
cornflowerblue
cornsilk
cyan
darkblue
darkcyan
darkgoldenrod
darkgray
darkgreen
darkkhaki
darkmagenta
darkolivegreen
darkorange
darkorchid
darkred
darksalmon
darkseagreen
darkslateblue
darkslategray
darkturquoise
darkviolet
deeppink
deepskyblue
dimgray
dodgerblue
firebrick
floralwhite
forestgreen
gainsboro
ghostwhite
gold
goldenrod
gray
green
greenyellow
honeydew
hotpink
indianred
ivory
khaki
lavender
lavenderblush
lawngreen
lemonchiffon
lightblue
lightcoral
lightcyan
lightgoldenrod
lightgoldenrodyellow
lightgray
lightgreen
lightpink
lightsalmon
lightseagreen
lightskyblue
lightslateblue
lightslategray
lightsteelblue
lightyellow
limegreen
linen
magenta
maroon
mediumaquamarine
mediumblue
mediumorchid
mediumpurple
mediumseagreen
mediumslateblue
mediumspringgreen
mediumturquoise
mediumvioletred
midnightblue
mintcream
mistyrose
moccasin
navajowhite
navy
navyblue
oldlace
olivedrab
orange
orangered
orchid
palegoldenrod
palegreen
paleturquoise
palevioletred
papayawhip
peachpuff
peru
pink
plum
powderblue
purple
red
rosybrown
royalblue
saddlebrown
salmon
sandybrown
seagreen
seashell
sienna
skyblue
slateblue
slategray
snow
springgreen
steelblue
tan
thistle
tomato
turquoise
violet
violetred
wheat
white
whitesmoke
yellow
yellowgreen
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What is Flood Check?
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With Flood Check enabled, normal users will have to wait the specified amount of time between posts before they can post again.
Admins and Moderators are not affected by this limitation.
You can choose 30 seconds, 60 seconds, 90 seconds or 120 seconds.
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