On a new Tiki you must first create your forum(s) in this first part. After creation the forum will appear in the second part Forums so you can edit them. Here's a picture of this first part followed by a description of each setting you'll find.
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| Name | The forum name as will be displayed in the forum listing
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| Description | A description of the forum
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| Prevent flooding | If enabled then the users won’t be able to post consecutive messages without waiting at least the indicated amount of time. This can be used to prevent a user from flooding the forum with messages.
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| Topics per page | The number of topics that will be displayed in each page when listing the forum topics.
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| Moderator | A user can be set as the forum moderator, when a user is the moderator he will be granted all the permissions for this forum.
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| Password protected | Determines if a password is needed to post messages. Note that this is not fully implemented yet and the two options with protection are currently equivalent.
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| Forum password | Password for the forum if it is set to be password-protected
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| Default ordering for topics | How the topics will be ordered in the list of forum topics by default. Some options can be ascending or descending. Options are:
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Date | Creation date of the topic
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Score | Topic's score
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Replies | Number of replies (messages) the topic has
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Reads | Number of times the topic has been read.
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Last post | Date of the last post in the topic (the last message posted)
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Title | Topic's title
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| Default ordering for messages (threads) | How will be the messages for a topic ordered by default:
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Date | Message's date
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Score | Message's score
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Title | Message's title
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| Send this forum posts to this email | You can configure an email address that will receive all the topics and messages posted to the forum. This uses your Web server's outgoing mail settings. The resulting e-mails are not in an appropriate format for sending to the forum's inbound e-mail.
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| Forward messages to this forum to this e-mail address | See EmailToForumGatewaying.
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| Originating e-mail address for mails from this forum | See EmailToForumGatewaying.
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| Add messages from this email to the forum | See EmailToForumGatewaying.
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| Prune unreplied messages after | If enabled topics that don’t have a reply will be automatically removed after the amount of time indicated.
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| Prune old messages after | If enabled topics and messages will be automatically removed when they are older that the indicated amount of time.
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| Section | Forums can be organized into sections, you can assign an existing section to a forum, create a new section or don't use a section. When listing forums they will be grouped by section. |