Openbravoforgesupport/Help/Communicate
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Forums
Openbravo Forge provides the standard capabilities of any modern forum system. A highlight of some of the most relevant features:
- HTML messages with a full WYIWYG editor. This includes the possibility to use formatted text, images and links.
- Attachments. It is possible to attach files to messages, ranging from logs to screenshots. This is handy when you need help debugging problems or users want to share results.
- Monitor activity. You can monitor the evolution of forum threads or forums using e-mail or RSS feeds.
Also project administrators can:
- Lock threads. This option prevents users to continue posting replies in a forum thread.
- Move message threads. Allow project administrators and forum moderators to move messages to one forum to another.
- Sticky messages. This is really useful for forums that want to highlight a new message to all the newcomers. For example, a FAQ built from the activity of the message, a very hot issue of the week, a reminder to all participants, etc.
News
Projects can generate news items. News are usually used to announce an important milestone reach in the project, such as:
- The release of a new version
- The availability of a new resource for the project
- Any relevant information for its community of users
The news items are reflected in the Forge Main Page and they are visibility not a project level also at site level.
To create a new news item for your project, go to the News tab and select the option Create News. For there, you can create a new news entry.
RSS feeds and Google Gadgets
If you want to keep up-to-date with the Openbravo Forge activity you can use the RSS feeds (What is an RSS feed at Wikipedia) and the Google Gadgets.
RSS
There are two levels of RSS feeds.
- Site RSS: A global set of RSS feeds that can be found in the left column (in the toolbox box). They provide various kind of information from the whole Openbravo Forge.
- Per-project RSS: Each project has its own RSS tab (see the Openbravo Forge Support project RSS) in the project view which provides a set of useful RSS feeds for the project.
Google Gadgets
You can also use a Google Gadget to keep up-to-date. You hav to go to Openbravo Google Gadgets. There you will find two Google Gadgets: like in RSS feeds there is a global one and another per-project specific. To use any of them just click on the small 
icon below each Google Gadget to add it to your personalized Google homepage.