Our application is not for a general public forum, but for an internal company forum where all users / passwords are assigned by the forum owner.
The goal is that only employees are registered and can view the forum and content. Example forum information would be sales / customer interaction reports along with links to photos, documents, pdf, png, etc. We will need a way to organize the attachments data structurally (as in organized customer files with sub folders) as well as links to posts.
It would be helpful for the forum to be searchable by employees but certainly not by outsiders. Links to adv such as google / amazon are a definite no-go.
I don't care if there is a vBulletin logo on the pages, but links to google, amazon, etc are problematic.
While I prefer to have full control of the forum, at least initially it probably makes more sense to have it hosted by people who know what they are doing. Long term we would want to bring this data and forum on internal servers, so the data and forum needs to be portable.
Privacy and reliability of the forum and data are obviously first on the list. Part of accomplishing the data privacy is to make the forum login information page not obvious.
The reason for this approach is to reduce email traffic and allow internal responses to the information as appropriate.
I am open to suggestions on ways that this could be accomplished.
Thanks
HarryN
The goal is that only employees are registered and can view the forum and content. Example forum information would be sales / customer interaction reports along with links to photos, documents, pdf, png, etc. We will need a way to organize the attachments data structurally (as in organized customer files with sub folders) as well as links to posts.
It would be helpful for the forum to be searchable by employees but certainly not by outsiders. Links to adv such as google / amazon are a definite no-go.
I don't care if there is a vBulletin logo on the pages, but links to google, amazon, etc are problematic.
While I prefer to have full control of the forum, at least initially it probably makes more sense to have it hosted by people who know what they are doing. Long term we would want to bring this data and forum on internal servers, so the data and forum needs to be portable.
Privacy and reliability of the forum and data are obviously first on the list. Part of accomplishing the data privacy is to make the forum login information page not obvious.
The reason for this approach is to reduce email traffic and allow internal responses to the information as appropriate.
I am open to suggestions on ways that this could be accomplished.
Thanks
HarryN
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