New Forum software & menus etc.

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New Forum software & menus etc.

Post by water01 »

With the upgrade of the forum to phpBB 3.2 I thought I would post a Topic showing all the changes that have place.

Firstly the Styles (the way the board looks) has changed for all of you. The default style will be prosilver (no way to avoid this as all Styles have to be deleted prior to the upgrade). So when you login for the first time you should see something like this

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Don't panic you will be able to change this via the User dropdown here

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and then click on User Control Panel and Board Preferences to change the Style.

The following Styles should (if all goes well !!) be available and I think there is something to suit all tastes.

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Absolution

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Aero

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Aero-Black

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NE-Green

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Pro-Silver (default)

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Prosilver Special Edition (probably the closest to Glacier)

The more observant of you may have noticed a complete change of menus etc., but again don't panic they are all still there just in different places.

This is how the top of the Forum looks

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The User Drop Down to the extreme right contains User Control Panel, your Profile and the Logout.

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Next in is the Private Message Menu where you can access all the normal Private messages and inside of that is the Notifications are which will notify you if you have a PM etc. and also is another way to get to the User Control Panel.

So how do you get New Posts, unread posts and all our menu links that have disappeared.

They are in the Quick Links menu on the extreme left

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There is a scroll bar to go up and down the links so they are now in one manageable place and work on all Styles!!

Inside of that is the FAQ menu which has been updated for all the latest parts of phpBB 3.2 and inside of that are the Admin Control Panel and Moderator Control Panel which will only be seen by a few of us that have access.

The Forum can also be able to be accessed by Tapatalk which is using the latest phpBB 3.2 extension which may require some of you to upgrade your version on your phone etc.

Think that covers most things, but any questions please post them on this Topic.
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