CSQA Frequently Asked questions.
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Got questions around site registration? Check this section. Contact admin@csqa.info if you dont find answers to your questions here.
Registration on this site has benefits & you get chance to be part of CSQA community.
First of all you have to make sure that you completed the registration. If you did not get the confirmation screen then registration did not take place and you will not get an account activation email. Please go back and register again.
If you are sure that you completed you registration then you may want to wait a bit longer for the email. Sometimes it takes quite a while (several hours) for an email to reach its destination.
If you still don't receive the activation email by next day then most likely you did not type in a proper email address or your mailbox was full, message was in your spam mail, etc.
Contact the web master ask for help. Tell them the exact user name and email address you have user. Don't send them your password.
You may retry by closing your browser and lauching the site in a fresh browser window.
If that doesnt work Check your password & Caps lock.
Once you have registered on CSQA.info, you can change settings to control information about yourself. Log in and then click on my account in the navigation block (that's the one titled with your user name). Click on the edit tab.
password
Enter in a new password in both fields to set it. System sends you a default password that is often hard to remember, so it is recommended that you change your password to something you can easily remember.
signature
Default signature will be copied into new comments for you automatically, but may still be edited.
time zone
This will cause all dated content on the site to display in local time, according to the offset you enter here.
You can request the new password. There is a Link just below the Login box.
You will get new password in email and we recommend that you change it upon next login
he forum module lets you create threaded discussion forums for a particular topic on this site. Forums are very useful because they allow community members to discuss topics with one another, and they are archived for future reference.
Forums can be organized under what are called containers. Containers hold forums and, in turn, forums hold threaded discussions. Both containers and forums can be placed inside other containers and forums. By planning the structure of your containers and forums well, you make it easier for users to find a topic area of interest to them. Forum topics can be moved by selecting a different forum and can be left in the existing forum by selecting leave a shadow copy. Forum topics can also have their own URL.
Users can post topics to forums. Forums can appear below other forums in a hierarchy, or can appear in containers.
1. Click administer ยป forums.
2. Click the add forum tab.
3. Type in a forum name.
4. Type in a forum description. This will show up below the forum name when users visit the forum section.
5. Select a parent.
* You can choose either a forum or a container to be a 'parent' for a forum. If there are no containers or existing forums to choose from, you will only see as the option, meaning it will be at the top of the forum hierarchy.
6. Select a weight. Higher numbers means the container will sink down in the list, lower numbers mean the container will rise up.
7. Click the "Submit" button.
You are trying to post into the Forum container see the Forum page earlier for details. Select the Forum topic instead of selecting container from drop down box.
Eg: "CSQA, CSTE Questions" ---- Container
"Past questions" ---- Forum
You can post in Forum but container is just to categorize the discussions
Users can post comments about any content on this site. You can post comment about CSQA articles, Links, Books.
Comments is either your opinion on the topic or something that you want to add. If you like the post you can post a positive comment and vice versa.
More comments you post, the more active you will appear on the site. Users posting regular comments will get noticed.
Click "Add a Comment" Link at the bottom of any page & click "Submit" to post a comment.
Notification
Depending upon users settings, an email will be sent to the authors and subscribers of content whenever a new comment is added
You can get email notifications about any content that you subscribe. Just click on "Subscribe Post" link at the bottom of the respective page.
You can recieve email notifications when
1. There is an update to subscribed content
2. Comments posted by a user.
3. New content added to the subscribed section.
and so on.
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