ColdFusion Platform Database Support
.NET Platform Database Support
Related Topics
The related topics module allows users to view topics that are similar.
Knowledge Base
The knowledge base module in FuseTalk allows users to convert topics/threads into a knowledge base item, those items are stored in a special category for users to view.
Weblogs
Weblogs are a place for single users to publish information to other people. For more information visit this link.
Email Posting
E-Mail Posting is a feature that lets people receive new topics and replies that are posted in FuseTalk by e-mail. Users can then read and reply to the e-mails using their normal e-mail client (e.g. Microsoft Outlook). The e-mails replied to will be inserted into FuseTalk, in the correct topic.
Locked Forums
Locked Forums gives the administrator the ability to lock a forum. This means that users will need to login prior to viewing and posting to the categories which belong to the forum.
Group Security
Group Security feature lets administrator set different permissions to their user groups. For example, you could create a group that can only delete topics and messages, and another group that can only approve messages.
API Support
This feature enables you to interact with FuseTalk through ColdFusion components or web services.
Offline Reader
Offline Reader feature is a utility that allows you to take forum content offline to read, post and reply, through a flash based client that sits on your desktop. Once you are back on-line you may sync your messages to FuseTalk.
External Profile Questions
External Profile Questions feature lets forum owners add questions to a users profile. (i.e. What is your favorite animal).
Category Surveys
Category Survey feature enables forum owners to ask a set of questions specific to a category. The questions will need to be answered prior to creating a new topic or replying to a message. This can be useful in environments where required data is needed from a user in order to answer his question and you want to ensure that it has been answered.
XML Export
This feature lets you retrieve FuseTalk topics in XML format.
Reporting
FuseTalk comes with an extensive reporting feature which lets you report on categories, topics and users (i.e. how many times they visited the forums, categories, topics and when they did those actions). The FuseTalk reporting engine lets you create the reports in HTML, XML or comma-delimited format.
Clustering
Clustering feature enables FuseTalk to be clustered over multiple servers. FuseTalk Enterprise allows for one Free Server to cluster.
WYSIWYG Editor
FuseTalk offers a few choices in WYSIWYG editors. The generic choice is an editor that works in IE only which is created by CFDev (http://www.cfdev.com). The more robust solution, which includes spell checking and works on all major browsers (there are a few exceptions on Macintosh computers). The java editor is created by Ephox (http://www.ephox.com). Click here to read more on the Java Editor.
NNTP (.NET Only)
NNTP allows FuseTalk Administrators to synchronize NNTP posts from News Servers around the world into a FuseTalk Forum. When a Category in FuseTalk is setup to synchronize with an NNTP server, posts made to that category are also posted to the NNTP group that the category is synchronizing with. This essentially creates a mirror of the NNTP Group.
External Authentication
FuseTalk can handle any type of authentication system that you are using. Built in to FuseTalk is the ability to authenticate by Sessions or Cookies. If you are using any other method, you can use our external authentication module which lets you add your own, existing ColdFusion code to authenticate your existing users through FuseTalk. This feature can be handy if you don't want your users to login a second time when they hit FuseTalk.