Deoarece scrierea de mesaje este în principiu motivul existenţei unui forum, vom acorda ceva timp studierii diferitelor opţiuni şi tehnici disponibile. Cei care sunt familiarizaţi cu softul forumului, HTML sau codul bulletin board în general ar putea prefera să treacă direct la Codurile BBC - Bulletin Board Code şi Emoticoanele referinţele privind.
Vă rugăm să reţineţi că, întrucât forumul SMF poate fi particularizat pe scară largă de către administrator(i), prezentarea unei facilităţi în această documentaţie nu înseamnă neapărat că aceasta va fi disponibilă pentru toţi utilizatorii, în toate forumurile.
Navigaţi către secţiunea în care doriţi să scrieţi şi faceţi click pe butonul Subiect Nou (poziţionat în mod implicit atât în partea de sus, cât şi în cea de jos a secţiunii, așa cum este indicat în Ajutor pentru Utilizatori - Introducere), ceea ce ar trebui să te ducă în ecranul Deschide un subiect nou. Acesta prezintă o serie de opţiuni, două dintre cele mai importante fiind câmpul Subiect şi câmpul principal Mesaj (nu este etichetat astfel, însă este evident prin dimensiunea sa). Poţi deci începe să introduci titlul subiectului şi să tastezi (sau să copiezi) mesajul tău în zona principală de scriere, ţinând însă cont de faptul că un mesaj căruia îi lipseste titlul subiectului sau conţinutul nu va fi acceptat pentru postare până când nu le va avea pe amândouă. Dacă eşti mulţumit de cum arată mesajul în format text, poţi să-l postezi făcând click pe butonul Postare şi/sau poţi să-l previzualizezi mai intâi făcând click pe butonul Previzualizare, dar sunt şi alte opţiuni disponibile pentru a face lucrurile mai interesante.
A poll is basically a topic with an added question and voting options, started by clicking New Poll instead of New Topic aşa cum a fost descris mai sus. To post a poll it is necessary to fill out the Question field and at least two of the Option fields in addition to the Subject and Message fields required by a standard topic. Further options to configure how many choices the user may vote for, how long the poll should run, whether users can change their votes and what conditions must be fulfilled for the results to be displayed should be self-explanatory.
To offer more than five choices in a poll, simply click Add Option as many times as necessary.
Note that it may also be possible for some users in some forums to add a poll to an existing topic.
Where this option has been configured (it's not standard 'out of the box'), you can post an event by selecting Calendar from the meniul principal followed by Post Event from the calendar screen. What you see now is a Start new topic screen with supplementary fields for the event title, date and target board, which simply add your event to the calendar and create a link back to your post in that board.
A răspunde la un subiect sau sondaj de opinie este în esenţă acelaşi lucru cu a deschide un subiect nou de discuţie, but it's not necessary to enter anything in the Subject field unless you wish to change what's already there. To vote in a poll, you simply have to select your chosen option(s) and click Submit Vote.
If 'Quick Reply' has been enabled, a simple reply field will also appear after the post(s) on a page, but you'll have to type your codurile BBC - Bulletin Board CodeşiEmoticoane manually if you choose to use it.
To reply to a post by quoting it, you can either click the Quote button for the relevant post and add your own message to the quoted text or click the Reply button followed by Insert Quote from the relevant post in the 'Topic Summary' below, but note that:
To modify a post, click the Modify button and make your changes. Note that most forums are likely to be configured to show the date and time of the last edit, but the administrator(s) may also allow a short period to elapse before this happens.
To delete a post, click the Delete button followed by OK from the Remove this message? box that appears. Some forums may also allow you to remove topics or polls that you start, but the buttons for these are usually at the bottom of the page.
This drop-down menu allows you to change the default icon for the subject line to something matching the mood or purpose of your post.
Bulletin Board Code (or BBC) is the essential tool for formatting and changing the appearance of your post. While it affects the plain text in much the same way as the formatting tools in any word processor, the main Message field does not behave in a WYSIWYG manner, so you should preview your message if you need to see what it will look like when posted.
A complete SMF Bulletin Board Code Reference is provided below.
While smileys can be viewed as purely whimsical in nature, they can also play a valuable role in clarifying the written word in much the same way as vocal inflections and/or facial expressions clarify the spoken word. Like most forum software, SMF provides a standard range of smiley images which can be added to posts by clicking the relevant icons or typing the relevant codes. A don't use smileys option is naturally also provided for those occasions when you don't want typed character combinations that would normally be displayed as smileys to be converted to the expected images!
A complete SMF Smileys Reference is provided below.
Before listing the available butoane BBC and their purposes, let's see how they work by imagining that we want to post some text in bold type. While we can start by clicking the B (Bold) button and typing our text between the tags it produces, it's often more practical to type the text first, highlight it and then click the button. So typing 'text', highlighting it and clicking the 'B' button should produce '[b]text[/b]', which renders as text when posted or previewed. (NB This doesn't work in Opera, which inserts the tags at the end of the post.) Subsequently highlighting '[b]text[/b]' and clicking the I (Italicized) button will produce '[i][b]text[/b][/i]', which not only renders as text when posted or previewed but also introduces the concept of nesting, which means that each new set of tags in a case like this should be seen as a new 'box' containing both the original text and any tags already applied to it.
Note that the BBC tags can also be typed and edited direct instead of clicking the buttons.
The following options may appear by default in some forums but be contained within an expanding/collapsing panel (try clicking the link with the arrow below!) in others:
Check this to subscribe to email notification for the topic.
Check this to return to the topic (instead of the message index) after posting (NB you can also set this behavior as a preference in your profile).
Check this to prevent certain character combinations in your post from being parsed and rendered as smileys.
If enabled, this feature allows you to attach files to your posts in much the same way as most email clients, so you simply have to browse to the relevant file(s) on your computer before clicking Post. You can delete your attachment(s) or add more by modifying your post, but please note that: