knkwebservices
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Hi all,
I've built a free forum snapin for Clientexec called Client Forum. It adds a community forum to your client portal (Support → Forum), and clients post with the login they already have. There's no second account and no separate forum software.
What it does
- Categories and boards, with boards you can limit to clients who have an active or suspended service on chosen packages
- Promote a support ticket into a public thread. The ticket gets an internal note linking to it and isn't closed or changed
- Markdown editor with preview, and pasted links become clickable
- Best answers, karma points and a leaderboard
- Full-text search that only covers boards the client is allowed to see
- Staff post under their own account with a Staff badge, and can pin, lock and delete threads
- Slack and Discord alerts for new threads
- Admin pages follow the 7.3 Light/Dark colour schemes
Install
Extract the zip into your Clientexec folder (it lands in plugins/snapin/clientforum/), enable it under Settings → Plugins → Snapins → Client Forum, then open Accounts → Client Forum to set up your boards.
Built and tested on 7.3.0 Beta 1. It should also run on 7.2, and if you try it there I'd like to hear how it goes.
Details, screenshots and the free download: https://knkws.com/clientexec-forum-plugin/
Feedback and feature requests are welcome. A Pro version with extra moderation and community features is planned, so tell me what you'd want in it.
Rob
K & K Web Services