Setting your forum preferences

If your association allows you to access Forum Preferences, you will see a Preferences button or a button on the tops of most pages.  Click this to access your Preferences, which allow you to configure your email notifications from the Forum as well as your profile information that can accompany your Forum posts.

Notification Preferences

In this section, all the topics you have access to will be listed.  For each topic, you can choose whether to be notified by email when someone posts to the topic.  The choices for each topic are:

• All: You will receive a notification email when someone posts or replies to any discussion within the topic.

• Threads: You will be notified only on posts to the threads you choose.  When you click this option, a list of all the current discussion threads for the topic will pop up.  You can check off as many or as few threads as you like.  (Any time a new discussion thread is created, you will have to modify this option if you want to be notified for it.)

• None: You will not receive any notifications for this topic (unless you post a discussion yourself).

Following these choices, you need to fill in some other preferences related to email.

• Notify me for replies to any discussion thread I have posted a message on (any topic or discussion): Check this off if you want to automatically get notified for any discussion you have participated in.

• Preferred Email Address: The Preferred Email Address you have saved in your database profile will be listed in parentheses.  Check the box to use this email address for notifications.  (If you do not have a preferred email address saved, this option will not appear.)

• Work Email Address / Association Email Address: These options will appear if you have these email addresses saved on your profile.  (Your association may not use these fields, so do not be concerned if you don't see them.)  If either or both do appear, you can check them off as notification addresses if you desire.

• Other E-mail Addresses: If you wish to receive notifications at one or more email addresses besides the options given above, check off this box and enter the email address or addresses (separating multiple addresses with a comma).

Profile Preferences

• Allow forum users to view my profile information by clicking my name: If you check this box, then anyone can click your name to get a pop-up of information from your profile.  The site admins determine what fields get displayed – if your site uses the Member Directory, the pop-up will be the same on the Forum as it is on the Member Directory.

• Signature: If you wish to include a signature on all your forum posts, type it in here.  Your signature will be appended to the bottom of all your forum posts.

  HINT: Make sure you include at least one blank space or a horizontal line at the top of your signature.  Otherwise, your signature will appear on the very next line after your message when you post.