How To Create Boards and Categories, and Set Permissions
in YaBB versions 2.1 and 2.2

II. Creating Your Boards


To create a board, go into the Admin Center and to the Forum Controls/Boards section





When you select Boards, it brings you to the Manage Boards screen shown below.



Notice there are no boards listed, but our one category is shown. Change the number in the box labelled "Add Boards" from the default "3" to "1" and click the Add button.


Now we get to the Edit Board screen. The top section is shown below.



Here I have chosen the board ID as bdone. (Remember - no spaces allowed in ID just as with Category ID).
I can and have used spaces in the Board Name, which I have called Board Number 1. I've also added a brief description of the board where I've included the words "Visible to All." In the next section we will work on permissions, and these board descriptions will help us test them.

Now, down to the selector box at the bottom of the picture that is labelled "Category." This allows you to choose which Category you wish to place your new board in. Since I've only made ONE category so far, that's all I have to choose from for now. So Board Number 1 will be put in Category Number One.

Now we all the way to the bottom of the Edit Boards screen, skipping over all the permissions for now, and make the last important step...

Pressing this button:




* * * USER CONFUSION POINT #2 * * *

SUPPORT QUESTION: "Help! I've just made some boards and they aren't showing up.

SUPPORT ANSWER: "Did you look in ALL categories?

Sometimes new users make many categories first, then when they create a new board they neglect to select the category they want the board(s) to show up in. They look for the board in the one category they wanted it in but don't check other categories to see if they accidentally placed it in one of those.





Let's make another board!

We'll follow the same steps as before. We go into the Admin Center to the Forum Controls/Boards section and we see:



Notice that since we have one board already made, it shows up in the list.
We again change the default "3" in the "Add Boards:" box to "1" and press the Add button.


Then we see this Board Edit screen:



Here I have chosen the board ID as bdtwo. (No spaces allowed in ID).

I can and have used spaces in the Board Name, which I have called Board Number 2. I've also added a brief description
of the board where I've included the words "Visible to Admin only." which will come into play in Part III Setting Permissions.

Again we skip all the selections and permissions and go straight to the bottom and hit the SAVE button.



Now let's select Boards again in the Admin Center and we'll see what all our work so far has produced



At the top is our category name. Below that are our boards, with the Board Name in the left column, Board Description in the second column.

Lookin' Good so far!


Now at this point I am going to create a second category and a third board to place into that second category in order to demonstrate various permission levels that can be set in categories and boards. I am not going to show these step-by-step, because it would just be another repeat of what you have already seen. But here is the result:




Board Number 3 is in Category Number Two, and will be visible to Members only (once we set the permissions).


Okay, you keep reading about these permissions… it's time to tackle those.



Continue with Part III. Setting Category and Board Group Permissions

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