Guide - User Preferences & Settings

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Edit Notification Options



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To open up one's user control panel, go to the navbar at the top of any page on our forum and click your username. It'll display a drop-down menu where you can click 'User control panel'. Then click the third top tab 'Board preferences'.



Notification Options
Here you have the option to have notifications by the forum (when you are on it), email or not at all. I have placed a tick next to the ones you should probably leave on but it's up to you to which you prefer. For example, most of my notifications are by forum, so I'll see a little red circle (which you can see in the above image) next to the 'Notifications' in the forum nav bar with the number of how many there are. The only ones I have by email is when someone sends me a private message and any admin things.

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Edit Memberships



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To open up one's user control panel, go to the navbar at the top of any page on our forum and click your username. It'll display a drop-down menu where you can click 'User control panel'. Then click the third top tab 'Usergroups'.


You should only need to come to the 'Edit memberships' the once not long after you join our forum. The 'manage groups' section underneath on the far right will not show members anything due to them not being a leader of any of the groups.


1) New Members and Nightingale Members
Registering with our forum will automatically put you into these two membership groups, the 'New Members' will disappear after a few posts. You'll notice they are both classed as 'special groups' and you can not leave either one of them.


2) Warrior or Carer/Family/Friend
When joining our forum you will get a private message welcoming you and asking you to come to this location in your user control panel to choose either one of the warrior memberships or that of the Carer/Family/Friend. To do this, simply click/select the one that you fit into, make such the drop down menu underneath says 'Join selected' and click submit. If you accidentally join the wrong one do not panic! Simply reclick/select that membership, click the drop down menu to select 'Resign selected' and click submit. Now you can select and join the correct membership group.

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mChat aka ChatBox



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To open up one's user control panel, go to the navbar at the top of any page on our forum and click your username. It'll display a drop-down menu where you can click 'User control panel'. Then click the third top tab 'mChat'.



1) mChat aka ChatBox Preferences
I'm going to take a guess here that you are already familiar with our forums chatbox, where it is located and how to use it. This area here in your user control panel is the settings for the chatbox.

You have the option whether you wish to have the chatbox on the forum index aka home page.
Where new chatbox messages will appear.
If you wish for the chatbox to automatically capitalize the first letter in your messages.
And so on as you can see in the image above.

It is up to you which preferences you prefer, simply click to change any and remember to click submit so it saves.

I would recommend having the sound enabled so you can hear when a new message comes in while you are in the chatbox (the sound should not go off unless you are already in the chatbox).