Start dialogue and conversation amongst club members with nested Forum discussions in your chapters and interest groups.

The forum experience for club members is very similar to the community level forum and provides club members a designated area to chat with other members, and have conversations nested within clubs.

Once enabled (steps below) in a club, the club members will see the Forum feature and section within their club. They can navigate to the Forum tab from the in-club menu, or scroll to the section in the club detail page. From there they can browse and engage with posts or make a post of their own.

Users can also find the club forum board from the main Forum menu item at the community level.

A user must be a member of the club to post in that club's forum, or reply and comment on posts.

Similar to making posts or commenting on posts in the community-level forum, members simply select the 'Create a post' button to post rich text discussions with videos, code, images and more. Learn more about how to post and engage here.

The board topics are displayed at the top of the board’s main page, and act as a sub-board within the forum board.

Posters can select from the designated topics to assign their post to a topic board, or they can select from any of the tags loaded in the community. Users cannot create a new topic or tag, they must pick from the list available.

Any topics assigned or added to the club via the dashboard will generate a topic block that users can use to drill down to the posts and topics they want to see. They can sort 'Hot' and 'New' posts within the topic board, too.

This feature is available to those communities that have the Forum and the Clubs features enabled and must be turned on by the Gradual team. Once it's turned on for your community, you will be able to make setting and customization changes listed below.

Dashboard admins must turn on this feature in two places in the main dashboard to allow clubs to build forum boards in their chapters or groups.

Dashboard admins must turn on the feature's visibility in the club detail page in the main dashboard so the forum discussions appear within the clubs.

Confirm the action to save your work

If you'd like 'Forum' to appear in the main menu at the top of the club page, edit the In-Club Menu section at the top of the Club Detail Page:

Dashboard admins and club collaborators at the admin level must turn on this feature in the club's dashboard for the feature to be visible and available for members to start posting within the specific club.

Club forum boards don't have the option to limit access to selected spaces only, but that will be available in future phases of this feature.

Enabling the feature and adding it to the club dashboard detail pages is all done via the Club Settings and Club Layouts page in the dashboard, as outlined above.

The club's forum posts are all compiled into one forum board for that club. That board can be accessed at the community level from the Forum tab, or from within the clubs.

To add the club forum board to the community-level forum page, follow these steps in the admin dashboard:

To change the poster, title, subtitle and more for these club forum boards, follow the steps outlined below within the club dashboard.

All settings and customization work on the in-club forum board takes place within the club dashboard from the Forum tab. Dashboard admins and club collaborators at the admin level are the only admins who can make changes to the forum within clubs.

This is the name of the forum board for this club. By default, the board name will match the club's name and cannot be changed.

This is a quick description or subtitle of the forum board for this club. This is optional and only appears if the club itself does not have a subtitle loaded.

You can monitor who can see and engage with the forum posts within the club by navigating to the Access settings block in the club forum dashboard.

Club forum boards don't have the option to limit access to selected spaces only, but that will be available in future phases of this feature.

The board topics are displayed at the top of the board’s main page, and act as a sub-board within the forum board. They are important as they are what prompt topic based conversation, and better organize your club forum board.

To add topics, navigate to the Board Topics section

There is a limit of 50 topics that can be added to the board.

On the front end, any topics assigned or added to the club via the dashboard will generate a topic block that users can use to drill down to the posts and topics they want to see. They can sort 'Hot' and 'New' posts within the topic board, too.

Club collaborators at the club admin, manager, and editor levels can moderate the in-club forum board, but up to 5 additional board moderators can be added to moderate just that board. Those added here can take action to pin, feature, and delete posts made by members within the club forum on the front end.

Add board moderators by selecting 'Edit' and searching for the member from the complete community member list. Select 'Add' to complete the action.

Those added as board moderators can take action from the front end, in the list of posts:

Or, they can take action from the front end, in the post itself:

With this toggled on, only moderators can create new posts in this forum board, and all other users cannot create posts within it.

This cover appears as the board cover at the community-level Forum if the board is featured. It does not appear within the club and is optional to add.

This banner appears only if the club does not have a club banner or in-club menu loaded in Club settings. This banner is optional to add.

Dashboard admins and club collaborators at any level can see posts and take action to moderate them from their dashboard.

They will see a Posts & Comments page where all posts and their replies and comments will appear. They can take action to delete posts and comments, or delete and mark spam.

They will see a Report Moderation page where all reported posts and comments will appear. They can take action to delete or publish these moderated posts, or take no action and leave them as is.

Learn more about how to take action on forum posts and comments here.

If you have posts that need to be moved from the main community forum to a club forum board, follow the steps below.

The posts selected will now appear on the board selected, in the club.