EuroBoNeT FORUM : Mini - HowTo

What is a 'FORUM' ?

A Forum is a public meeting place where users can interact with each other by opening a discussion topic ('thread') and giving others the opportunity to comment to this topic.
So writing a messages (also called 'POST' or posting) or opening a discussion are the basic
activities users perform in a forum.

Each of those messages can be followed by one or more messages (called 'REPLY' / 'REPLIES') about the same topic of the discussion.

So the combination of POSTs and the following REPLIES forms a THREAD of discussion.

Each THREAD is contained within a SECTION which is a logical container for similar discussion topics (e.g. Bioinformatics – General).

The EuroBoNeT Forum

The EuroBoNeT Forum is located at the following address :

https://www.eurobonet.eu/index.php

Software needed to access the EuroBoNeT Forum.

Any Web Browser with JavaScript enabled.

How to Subscribe to the EuroBoNeT Forum

In order to access the EuroBoNeT Forum, users must have a valid username and password.

Users must follow the link below to obtain those credentials:

https://www.eurobonet.eu/registrazione.php

Fill in the form, then press the “Save” button to complete registration.

The system will send a confirmation message to the e-mail address provided in the form,
including instructions on how to confirm the subscription.

If you don’t receive any e-mail from the EuroBoNeT server, please contact technical support at eurobonet@dbalab.it .

Any user subscription must also be confirmed by the forum administrator : Pauline de Graaf (p.de_Graaf@lumc.nl).

Using the EuroBoNeT Forum

Once a user is subscribed, he can start to use the forum. The starting page is located at https://www.eurobonet.eu/index.php and shows the list of accessible and open threads by the current user.

Fig. 1 - Sections and main Threads

The first-level sections and the first forum of the section (the image above “Bioinformatics” is a section, and “General topic” is the first forum of “Bioinformatics”) can only be created by forum administrators.

In order to view the threads contained in a forum, you must click on the forum's name.

Once you enter to the forum, the list of threads contained is shown, and you can :

A) Add a topic

By clicking on the “New Thread” button (see image below)

Fig. 2 - The "New Thread" button

The user is asked to fill a form specifying a discussion title and the first discussion’s message.

Fig. 3 - The "New Thread" form

Clicking the “Save” button creates a new thread and the list is updated :

Fig. 4 - Thread list after the insertion

Fig. 5 - New Thread's First POST

B) Answer a topic

The user must click the “Reply” button located bottom right to answer a topic:

Fig. 6 - The "Post Reply" button

The user is asked to write his answer by using the integrated text processing tool (see below).

Fig. 7 - The Word-Like Editor

The main features of the text tool are :

- Basic formatting (Bold, Italic, Underlined, Text Alignment, etc.) in the first row of buttons.

- Inclusion of pictures by pressing the button in the second row of buttons.
The user cannot upload images, but he can insert a picture typing an image location
e.g. the images of the Eurobonet server in https://www.eurobonet.eu/images

- Linking to other pages - The user must select the portion of text to be used as link and
press the button to insert a page location.

Clicking the “Save” button is finishing the work and the answer is published immediately after the last post.

Fig. 8 - The Reply has been inserted