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Add domBulletin to your Lotus Intranet (Part 2)

John Roling

9/20/2006
(Editor's note: This is part 2 of a tutorial on how to add the open-source domBulletin to your Lotus Domino-based intranet. Check part 1 here.)

In this second part of the tutorial, I list more configuration options in the Access Control List. Remember that domBulletin is available at OpenNTF.org. For this article, we are using domBulletin 1.2.

More configuration options:

Allow User Autologin: Set to yes to allow the user to autologin to the applicaton. The database will store the user's username and password in clear text however, so I would recommend setting this to no and making users enter their username and password each time.

Allow Authenticated Users to Edit their Own Posts: Setting this to yes allows a logged in user to go back and edit their posts.

Allow Authenticated Users to Delete their Own Posts: Setting this to yes allows a logged in user to delete their own posts.

Enable Polls: Set to yes to enable the polling feature, no to turn it off.

Allow Anonymous to Answer Polls: If polls are enabled, this toggles whether or not an anonymous user is allowed to answer a poll.

Allow User Registration: This will normally be set to no in most environments as you wish to keep more control of your user accounts. Setting this to yes allows a user to register a new username and password that will be inserted into your Domino directory.

Security Mode: You can set this to Standard or More Secure. For our purposes we will set it to Standard. You can set it to More Secure if you wish to tighten things down a little more.

Forbidden Usernames: This field allows you to enter usernames (separated by a semicolon) that are not allowed. For example you may not want to allow Administrator.

Forbidden Words: This allows you to enter a list of "bad" words not allowed in posts. You need to separate them with a semicolon.

Convert Smileys to Images: Set this to yes to allow emoticons to be converted to images or no to leave them as text.

Allow UBB Code: UBB is a fairly popular Web bulletin board that uses certain markup conventions to format text. Saying yes to this allows your users to use UBB codes in their posts.

Allow File Attachments: Set to yes or no based on preferences.

Max Attachment size: Maximum attachment size per post you will allow (in kilobytes).

Allow Image Upload: Set to yes or no to allow or disallow users to upload images in their posts.

Max Image Upload Size: Maximum image size (in kilobytes).

Syndication and Emails

Server URL: The base URL of your server. For example http://www.intranetjournal.com

Enable RSS: Set to yes to enable RSS feeds of topics and the database to be available for end users.

Enable Newsletter: Set to yes to enable an email newsletter to be sent based on user preferences

Enable Emails: Set to yes if you want users to be able to receive emails when people respond to their posts.

Email Footer: Text to add to the bottom of your emails. It could be your website or application address.

Send Email "From" this Address: This is the address the newsletters and emails will come from. It can be set to anything, for example DoNotReply@intranetjournal.com

Mailbox Filename: This is your server's mail router database. 99 percent of the time, this will be mail.box. Talk with your admin to make sure.

About the Author

John Roling is the Senior Groupware Administrator for a North American trade-show exhibit company and a certified Lotus Notes Administrator, Developer and all-around geek. You can keep up with him at his http://www.greyhawk68.com/ blog or drop him an e-mail at jroling@gmail.com.

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