Edit Forum Layout | pan F ora
Forum Admin

| Only Forum Administrators have access to Setup tools in panFora.
| By default, panFora Forums are displayed in a three-frame layout:
| [Topics Frame], [Threads Frame] and [Content Frame].
| However, panFora allows you to customize your Forum environment layout
| You may add up to 4 additional frames in 15 possible configurations.
| Customize size, color, border color and resizing ability of new frames.
| Upload html content for each added frame. You can add:
| Advertisement content
| Project or Forum Community specific content.
| Images, animation, links, etc.

To Edit Forum Layout
| Select Edit Forum Layout under [Forum] in the Menu Frame
| The Task Frame updates to display the Modify Frameset Layout form.

| To Modify Frameset Layout
| 1.Click the appropriate radio button next to the preferred layout.
| The thumbnails represent the various layout configurations:
| The three-frame Forum is colored in gray and white.
| The additional frames, and their position in relation to the existing Forum,
| are colored yellow with red borders.
| 2.Click
| The Editing Frame displays the Enter Frame Sources form for the selected layout.

| A larger thumbnail of the Selected Layout configuration is pictured here.
| Each additional Frame is numbered to facilitate editing.
| You need to select the appropriate html files to provide these frames with the desired content.
| If you leave the content blank, the default home.html page is selected.
| Files can be added through the edit files page.
| They will go into the main Forum directory, for example, /MyForumName/my.html.
| You can also upload images, and documents to this directory.

| Editing New Frames
| 1.Enter the appropriate URL for each of the new frames
| You may enter either absolute (e.g. http://...) or relative (e.g. /MyForumName/Forum/...) URLs.
| The content for each URL will appear in the appropriate frame.
| You may edit the html files at any time.
| You can edit through the Files interface, or re-upload if necessary.
| Pay attention to the numbers to ensure the correct HTML files go in the appropriate places.
| 2.Set width and height of each new frame.
| Width and Height can be entered as absolute numerical values (e.g. 120),
| percentages (e.g. 20%) or "*", meaning the frame will take all available space.
| When two new frames are adjacent to each other, setting the height of one
| will lock the height of the other.
| 3.Set resize ability for each new frame
| This is defined as the ability to enlarge the frame-size by dragging on its borders.
| When two new frames are adjacent to each other, setting the resizing ability of one
| will affect this option for the other.
| 4.Select Frame Border size from the Frame Border pull-down menu.
| Options range from 1 to 5 pixels
| Notes:
| A border of at least 1 pixel is required to make the Forum frames resizable.
| Borders must be set to 5 pixels for border color to work in Internet Explorer.
| 5.Set Frame Border Color by entering a hex value in the text field.
| By default, #FFFFFF (white) is entered.
| 6.Click to submit your changes.
| Tip
| Before committing your changes, click Preview, to see how your edits would affect your Forum environment.

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