Interaction Forum Service

The Interaction Forum Service provides web based threaded forums on a Macintosh. It facilitates that your visitors discuss with each other using standard web browsers. Interaction Forum is used as part of web based training, virtual communities, on-line customer relations and to provide a means of public or private discussions. The Service is a complementary component for the Interaction web server companion.

Features and Benefits

Optimized for Threaded Discussions: Threaded Forums with each message on a separate page facilitates more substantial discussion than conversational systems with all messages together.
Made for Regular Websites: Interaction Forum is designed for use on regular websites served on Mac, so you won't be limited by the compromises of software targetted for the few most visited web servers.
Specialized for the Mac: We focus on making our software the best it can be for the Mac rather than spending our resources on other platforms.

Easy to configure on the Mac: The forums can be configured and maintained from dialogs on the Mac, so that you get up an running quickly.
Configurable from a Web Browser: The maintainer can create and modify the forums from anywhere on the Internet using a standard web browser.
Unlimited Number of Forums: You can create a virtually unlimited number of forums or forums groups.

Detailed Control over Privileges: Control who is allowed to read, post and make replies in each forum.
Moderated Forums: Individual forums can optionally be moderated through a web browser or from the Mac, so that no message is posted without first being reviewed.
Mirror to Email: Posted messages can be forwarded to one or more email addresses, notifying moderators about postings or mirror a forum to a mailing list.
Automatic Expiration: Inactive threads can be set to expire after a given number of days since last posting.

Highly Customizable: The presentation of the various pages of a forum can be customized through themes containing HTML templates or server-side XSL style sheets.
Based on Open Standards: The Interaction Forum Service is based on open standards such as XML, instead of requiring proprietary tag constructs or codes.

The Interaction Forum Service is a mature threaded forum application with more years on the web than any other commercial forum software. As early as in 1994 the predecessor to the Interaction Forums provided one of the first web-based threaded conferencing systems, inspiring many of the more recent similar applications.

The Forum Service comes as a complementary component distributed with Interaction.

Installing the Interaction Forum Service Component

Download the Interaction Forum Service archive.
Unstuff the archive (most browsers will do this for you).
Find the appropriate version of the component in the folder that best matches your version of Interaction.
Put the component file in the Components folder of Interaction
Restart Interaction to activate the component.