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» faq - using the forum «
About login & logout.
Using the (smalltext) links on the top of the screen, you can login on the forum with your username.

By default, the 'cookies' that store your username and password will be removed after you close all browser windows. In this way other people on the same computer won't be able to (ab)use your account.

If you are using your own computer & always want to be logged in, please check the "Remember me"-box when logging in, this way you don't need to login every visit.


How do I get my own picture under my name?
In the member options there is a place for the (url/http) address of a personal 'icon' (which is the image under your name).

Example: http://www.domain.com/images/picture.gif

The size of your icon can be maximal 80 x 80 pixels. You can use Google Advanced Image Search to look for images that are small in size.


How do I add a signature?
To add a signature to your posts you have to log into your member options and insert into the signature text box the signature you wish to use.
You can use html-code in this signature.


What is U2U?
U2U means User to User. It is a simple messaging client that you can use to send messages to fellow members on this board. You can check your U2U inbox by clicking here.

Whenever you've got a new message, automatically an icon appears (after loading/refreshing any forum page) next to "U2U" in the top menu, indicating you've got mail ->
When you want to send somebody a message, click "u2u" in his profile or posts and type your message.


Who's online?
By refreshing the index-page of the egea forum, at the bottom you will see which members are online (=active during last 10 minutes) and who's chatting.


Using the Chat
Chat is available for all forum members.
Unfortunately the EGEA-Chat is not 100% error-free as of yet, you can find more information about how to use the EGEA-Chat by clicking here.


Can you please explain the user ranks to me?
Based on the number of posts you have, you are assigned to a rank. Each rank has its own status and upload limit. Below are the user rank settings for this forum:

number of posts status upload limit u2u quota
0 Newbie Member0 Kb50
1 Junior Member128 Kb100
5 Member256 Kb150
100 Senior Member512 Kb200
300 Forum Dinosaur1024 Kb250
32000 Committee5120 Kb500
32000 Activist2048 Kb500
32000 Board of Executives16384 Kb10000
32000 Entity Account5120 Kb750


subforums and hidden subforums

To achieve a better overview on the discussed matters, sometimes subforums are introduced within the main sections. here, more specific themes are going to be handled. Besides those subforums visible to all members and guests, there are as well hidden subforums.
These are used for

1. e.g. coordinating activities like congresses or events. Here, the participants are allowed to use their mothertongues in order to have most efficient communication with their fellow organizers.

2. commitees and other groups, that want to lead discussions without beeing disturbed by occasionally dropping by members or don´t want to disturb the public with their very specific discussions.

members who can see these hidden subforums can be added to the access-list manually by moderators and admins. there is also the possibility to invite members to one of these hidden subforums by sending a special link:
This link can be posted within a news, send by mail or u2u and has to look like that:

http://www.egea.eu/subscribe.php?action=subscribe&fid=ID of the Forum
Clicking this link will add the member to the access-list of the subforum.

Clicking the following link will give the member an overview on the already enlisted members: http://www.egea.eu/subscribe.php?action=viewlist&fid=ID of the Forum

To get removed from the subforum-list, members have to click the unsubscribe-link: http://www.egea.eu/subscribe.php?action=unsubscribe&fid=ID of the Forum

note: to be able to use this subscribe/unsubscribe-feature, the subforum has to to be enabled for that. this can be done by moderators via mods panel -> Forums Administration -> selecting the forum: "More Options" -> checking the box: "Enable subscribe option for this forum"



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