In Forums, the role of each user group is clear and very important. Each role has a set of tasks that they can execute. Administrators and moderators are responsible for setting up and maintaining Forums. With the highest rights, the administrators are in charge of the entire management tasks, including form configurations, users management, permissions, categories, forums, topics and messages. With sub-sets of administrative permissions, the moderators will manage the respective sub-sets of the forum.

The user interface will indicate which features are available to you, based on your role.

To have an overall look of actions which users of each role can do in the Forums application, see the following table:

Features	Description	Administrator	Moderator	Regular user	Guest
Subscribing to RSS feeds	Gets a link to a forum for easy sharing.
Attaching a file	Uploads an attachment to a topic/post, previews and downloads it.
Bookmarks	Bookmarks a category, forum, topic.
Creating a post	Posts a reply, quote, private post, quick reply.
Editing your post	Edits a post, quote and private post.
Deleting your post	Deletes a post inside a specific topic.
Creating a topic	Starts a new topic.
Editing a topic	Edits a topic in a specific forum.
Deleting a topic	Deletes a topic inside a specific forum.
Locking/Unlocking a topic	Locks/Unlocks a topic inside a specific forum.
Adding a poll	Adds a poll to a topic.
Rating a topic	Evaluates a topic by rating stars.
Adding a tag	Creates a new tag and tags a topic.
Sending private messages	Sends or receives private messages.
Watching	Subscribes to a category, forum, topic to receive email notifications of new posts or topics.
User settings	Changes profile settings, personal forum settings.
Sticking/Unsticking a topic	Sticks/Unsticks a topic inside a specific forum.
Locking/Unlocking a topic	Closes/Opens a topic inside a specific forum.
Splitting a topic	Divides one topic into two separate topics.
Merging topics	Combines two or more topics into one.
Managing a poll	Creates, edits, deletes, closes and reopens a poll.
Moving a topic/post	Moves one topic/post from a forum/topic to the other forum/topic.
Approving a topic/post	Changes a new topic/post from pending status to normal status so that guests and normal users can view.
Uncensoring a post	Allows a topic which has censored content to be displayed.
Showing/ Hiding a post	Allows a post to be shown/hidden.
Managing pending tasks	Manages all topics/posts waiting for moderation in one place.
Managing a watch	Manages the subscription (watch), edits and deletes a subscribed email.
Banning users	Bans users from accessing specific forums or categories.
Adding a forum	Adds a new forum to a specific category.
Editing a forum	Changes the title, description, moderator, permissions of a forum. However, moderators cannot set moderators for a forum.
Deleting a forum	Deletes a forum from a specific category.
Locking/Unlocking a forum	Locks a forum so that it can be viewed only.
Closing/Opening a forum	Closes/Opens a forum. The closed forums are still manageable by administrators and moderators.
Moving a forum	Moves a forum from one category to the other.
Exporting a forum	Exports a forum in the format of a .zip or .xml file.
Importing a forum	Imports a forum from a .zip/.xml file into the Forums application.
Adding a category	Adds a new category.
Editing a category	Edits a category and changes its properties.
Exporting a category	Exports categories in the format of a .zip or .xml file.
Importing a category	Imports a category from a .zip/.xml file into the Forums application.
Deleting a category	Deletes a category and all forums, topics, posts inside it.
Administrating Sorting	Sorts forums, topics according to specific conditions.
Administrating Censor	Defines keywords that will be censored in a forum.
Customizing an email notification template	Defines content of the email notifications.
Customizing BBCodes	Adds, edits and deletes the BBCode tags used in writing posts/topics.
Setting up auto-pruning	Sets up auto-pruning to clean a large amount of obsolete and inactive topics based on criteria.
Banning IPs	Bans IPs in the whole Forums application (only administrators) and in specific forums only (administrators and moderators).
Managing users	Manages user's profile, promotes users, bans users, views a topic and post of a specific user.