Guides to Using NFKCC Forum

User Guide.

The Forum and Gallery are available to club members.

These notes supplement the Help option in the Forum menu. The Forum "Help" menu describes all the features available in the forum software; however some of these features are not enabled in the NFKCC forum. In particular the sections concerning Registration, Calendar and some parts of Profiles do not apply.

The forum is configured for use with the mobile App TapaTalk.

Forum

Notifications.

By default notifications for each Board are turned off. To receive an email each time a new topic is posted go to each board and click "Notify". To turn off notification click "Notify" in each board.

Repeat this for each Board you wish to receive notifications; currently there are seven Boards. You will recieve an email notification when a new topic is posted. 

To receive notifications when replies are made on a topic you should click Notify for the topic.

You will get an email for each reply to the topic (if you have set this option - see below). 

Notification Settings

These can be changed in the profile screen. This screen also lists which topics are set to notify.

If you enable the Receive reply notifications only for the first unread reply  option you will get an initial email - but no further emails unless you click on the link the email to say you have read it.

 Probably best not to enable this option in practice. Deselecting you get the following typical email:

Posting

Further help for posting on the forum can found in the main help menu.

Gallery

Uploading pictures and videos.

There are two types of Albums - Club Event "Albums" and "Members Albums". Club Albums have been created for various club activities and events.

Members can upload files into the appropriate club Event Album or create a Member Album. All Albums are viewable by all members. Members can move / remove / edit their own pictures but not any others.

To create a new user alarm - click on the "My Albums" and then select "Add User Album".

If you would like a new "Club" Album please ask Jeremy / Steve.

Multiple files (pictures, video etc) can be uploaded together. There are some, quite generous, file limits. Pictures above 2MB in size will be compressed when they are uploaded. Video files larger than 2Mb can be uploaded individually.

Acrobat Flash Player is required for Multiple files to be uploaded and your browser must have Java Script enabled. Flash Player can be downloaded from Adobe.

The following file types are supported.

• Image files: bmp, png, gif, jpg, jpe, jpeg
• Audio files: mp2, mp3, mpga, ram, ra, wax, wma, m4a, a-latm, ogg, rpm, mka, wav
• Video files: avi, mpg, mpeg, mpe, wmv, mxu, m4u, movie, qt, mov, rv, flv, mp4, mkv
• Multimedia archives: zip

Note that your browser must support java script or Flash for the bulk upload feature to work.

It is also possible to put links to videos hosted on, for example, YouTube.

Viewing Pictures and Vidoes.

Some file types - particularly video - may require a suitable plug-in for your browser. These include plug-ins for "Media Player" and Quicktime.

The most recent additions to the gallery and a random selection of pictures is shown at the bottom of the gallery page.

Most of the club trips require registration / contact with the trip leader. Often this is done via the forum. The contact details will include the user name of the leader. To contact the leader you will need to log onto the forum and send them a message.

To send a message select My messages from the menu and then New Message.

To find the name of the leader contact you may use the Find Member option to search - select & insert the correct name.

You can opt to receive email alerts when you are sent a message.