Message Board

Each league has it's own message board to allow users to communicate with one another by posting new messages and replying to existing messages. Each message post and subsequent replies make up one message thread. There's also an option to allow the five most recent messages topics to appear on the home page. See For Commissioners > Setup > Appearance Setup > Home Page Setup to add.

Click on the [Add Topic] link to create a new message thread for your board. You will be taken to a separate page where you can define a topic Subject and the Message Body. Emoticons (various smiley faces), bold, italics, and underline type are all supported along with any image. There's also an option to have the system email a message when someone has replied to your post. When finished, just click on the Post button to add your message.

In order to make changes to a message that you have already created, click on the [Edit] link associated with the specific message or reply.

Click on any of the Topic titles from your league's main message board screen to view the message thread containing the current message and all replies.

When viewing a message thread, click on the [Reply] link that corresponds to the specific message to which you wish to reply. Enter the same information as defined in the Post A New Message section above (excluding the Subject). You can also copy a previous message into your reply via the [Quote] link. Optionally, you can edit out any of the test you don't want quoted in your reply.

You can search league message board posts both on keywords, as well as who posted the message. Simply click on the [Search] link in the "Message Board Options" section at the top of the page.

These messages are like email, but they offer the league a way to keep all communication within the league itself. There are two ways to send a PM:

a. Go to the league message board, and click on the [Private Messages] link in the "Message Board Options" section at the top of the page.

b. Go to the Franchise Information report for a franchise, and click on the "Send A Private Message" link in the "My Options" section.

NOTE: You may only send private messages to league-mates after they've visited your league message board for the first time. Also, you will by default receive an email message from the system when you do have a new private message (this can be disabled in the "Options" section).

The system will use the franchise icon you've specified on your Advanced Franchise Setup page as an avatar to be displayed next to message board posts you make.

		Yellow icons indicate new posts respectively topics or boards with new posts. In this forum, 'new' means a post has been added since your last visit. Even if you have just read it, it is still a new post, and will only be counted as old on your next visit to the forum.
		Checkmarked icons indicate that the post respectively all posts in a topic or board have been read. Posts are counted as read once their topic had been on screen or if they're older than a set number of days. Since new/old and unread/read are independent concepts in this forum, posts can be new and read as well as old and unread at the same time.
		Icons with dotted outlines indicate topics/posts that are invisible to other users, because they are waiting for approval by an administrator or moderator.
		The lock icon indicates the topic has been locked for some reason and no new posts (except by administrators and moderators) are allowed.

In addition to all of the above, the commissioner has added options available to manage the league's message board.

Use this option to prevent anyone from future replies when a thread is either getting too long or you simply want to close the current discussion/debate.

This option is only available when the Other (Appearance) Settings to have message board posts indented has been selected. To move a reply to a message in order to make it it's own new thread, click on the 'Branch' link for the message. You'll need to define a new subject for the message. Click on the 'Promote' button to move the reply to the main message listing as it's own topic.

A topic can be change to "sticky" (always appearing at the top of the list of topics) by going into the topic, and clicking on the "Stick" link in the "Administration" section at the bottom of the page.

This option, defined in the For Commissioners > Setup > Appearance Setup > Other Settings screen, will allow guests to view (but not post to) your league message board.

Thread replies can either be indented or non-indented. If you've set up your league message board to be the latter on the For Commissioners > Setup > Appearance Setup > Other Settings page, the overall layout of the view one topic page will look similar to most common public message boards, with the poster and avatar in the first column of each post, and then the date, post body, and reply/edit/quote links in the second column. Previously, when setting up a new league the default message board layout was "indented", where now, the default message board layout is "non-indented". In addition, indented message boards now offer a more elegant way of collapsing branches.