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Creating a private community
A private community is a secure members-only site. You control who can log in, view and participate. Example uses of private communities: Private communities for clients or partners Internal company…
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Inviting users
This guide outlines the process to invite new members to the platform. 1. Navigate to Admin > Users. 2. Click Add users. 3. Enter the email addresses of the invitees separated by line breaks. 4.…
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Granting access by email domain
If you have a private community, you can give access to your entire organization by email domain. Only users with email addresses in domains that you approve are able to log in or sign up.…
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Assigning the moderator or admin roles
What is a moderator? A user with the moderator role has the following elevated abilities: Edit or remove any post Approve posts in the moderation queue Access all private categories Invite members…
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Private Categories and Sections
With private categories, you can control user access to specific areas in your community. For example, you can create a private area that is only accessible to employees or specific clients.…
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How to Create an Unlisted Category
An unlisted category is a category that is excluded from category navigation and search results. This feature can be useful in the following scenarios: When you want to link to a category in other…
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Using Groups to Manage Access
With Groups you can manage bulk user assignments to private categories. This is useful if you have multiple private categories and need to assign sets of users all at once.…
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How to send reminder invitations
After you have invited users to your community, you can manage your invites. View Invitees Who Have Not Joined Go to Admin > Users and select Pending from the filter menu.…
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Change or add a new email address
To change your email address or to add an additional email address to your account: 1. Navigate to Edit Profile: 2. Click the Account tab: 3. Click Add another email: 4.…
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Removing and Deleting Users
This article describes options for removing users (blocking their access) as well as permanently deleting users. Remove Users Removing a user means that the user is no longer a member of the…
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Supported browsers
We support the current and previous major releases of the following browsers: Chrome Microsoft Edge Firefox Safari Opera Brave Using older browser versions can prevent you from accessing Forumbee,…
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Enable login provider integrations: Google, Microsoft, LinkedIn, GitHub, and Facebook
With login provider integrations, your members can sign in using their account on any of the following login providers: Google Microsoft LinkedIn GitHub Facebook Signing in with a login provider is…
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Requiring moderator approval of member join requests
In a public community, users can typically sign up on their own to become members. However, you can configure your settings to require moderator approval for all new join requests.…
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Enabling request-to-join in a private community
In private communities, access is typically restricted to users who are directly invited or who can authenticate via Single Sign-On (SSO). However, to diversify and increase your member base while…
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Enabling browser cookies and JavaScript
Cookies are small text files stored in your browser that websites use to recognize repeat visitors. Most browsers store cookies by default. Forumbee requires browser cookies and JavaScript to be…
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What domains are blocked when using the "block free email domains" feature?
Below is a sampling of the list of free email domains that are automatically blocked when you have enabled the option to Block sign-ups using free email providers.…
Managing privacy, security and user access