Forum

The Forum node is defined as a child node of category and allowed adding child nodes as Topic and RSS type. The node type of Forum is exo:forum. The Forum node is stored in /exo:applications/ForumService/ForumData/CategoryHome/%Category-id%/%Forum-id% and its node type has the following properties:

Properties name	Required type	Multiple	Description
exo:id	String	false	The forum id.
exo:owner	String	false	The forum creator.
exo:path	String	false	The node path of the forum.
exo:name	String	false	The forum title.
exo:forumOrder	Integer	false	The order number in the list of forums. Forum with smaller number will get higher order.
exo:createdDate	Date	false	The date and time when the forum was created.
exo:modifiedBy	String	false	The id of user who modified the category.
exo:modifiedDate	Date	false	The time of modification, including date, time and time zone.
exo:lastTopicPath	String	false	The id of the last topic in the forum.
exo:description	String	false	The description of forum.
exo:postCount	Long	false	The total number of submitted posts in the forum.
exo:topicCount	Long	false	The total number of created topics in the forum.
exo:isAutoAddEmailNotify	Boolean	false	Enable/disable the notification email to moderators.
exo:notifyWhenAddTopic	String	true	Email addresses to notify when there is a new topic in the forum.
exo:notifyWhenAddPost	String	true	Email addresses to notify when there is a new post in the forum.
exo:isModerateTopic	Boolean	false	All new topic will be moderated if the value is set to "true".
exo:isModeratePost	Boolean	false	All new posts will be moderated if the value is set to "true".
exo:isClosed	Boolean	false	The forum status: closed/open. Forum is closed if the value is set to "true".
exo:isLock	Boolean	false	The forum status: locked/unlocked. Forum is locked if the value is set to "true".
exo:createTopicRole	String	true	The list of ids of the users or groups who can create topic in the forum.
exo:poster	String	true	The list of ids of the users or groups who can submit post in the forum.
exo:viewer	String	true	The list ids of the users or groups who can view posts in the forum.
exo:moderators	String	true	The list of user ids who are the moderators of forum.
exo:tempModerators	String	true	The list of user ids who are the temporary moderators.
exo:banIPs	String	true	The list of banned IP addresses.

The child node pruneSetting has the following perperties:

Properties name	Required type	Multiple	Description
exo:id	String	False	The forum id.
exo:inActiveDay	Long	False	The number of days/weeks/months that the topics in forum have not been active.
exo:periodTime	Long	False	The number of days/weeks/months that the prune job will be executed to check for the old topics and deactivate them.
exo:isActive	Boolean	False	The current status of the prune job. If the value is set to "True", the prune job will be run.
exo:lastRunDate	Date	False	The date that prune job runs for the last time.