You can also build your own library of graphic objects. Adjustable Formatting You can easily customize conference graphics, background, and text color to integrate the conference with the look and feel of your existing Web materials. Administrators can add annoucements as well as additional header and footer HTML to conference pages. Advanced Searching Users can search an individual forum for messages containing a word or phrase and sort postings by author, date, or keyword. Custom User Preferences Individual users can customize their view of a conference by filtering messages or displaying messages by the date they were posted.
Users can also make font size and color changes.
Flexible Security Forums security options allow you to control access to conferences and forums by defining user and group access rights. In addition, you can define a number of options for handling new users. Embedded HTML Administrators can enable an advanced option that allows users to add HTML to their messages. In addition to our Petro Forums core features a number of new features have been added for this release. User authentication Several options are available for authenticating new users who attempt to enter a conference, including requiring users to register prior to entering a conference and requiring all users to be approved prior to entering a conference.