Question about rich "forums" / "bulletin board" integration with Confluence

Question

Hi all

We (Iclelandic Radio Amateurs) are running a Internet facing web, today we use Confluence 3.5.13 (actually runnning and older version, but we have 3.5.13 running on a different host ready to take over)

We have a phpBB board on the side, that is not used alot - we would be ever so happy if we could:

- integrate some kind of a BB/Forum software within the confluence system / look

- Share the Confluence user database with the BB

We have looked at Communty bubbles and are quite lost - would that be the way to go (before I dive into that system)

Does anyone have any good tips for us, usage examples etc to help us with this project ?

- Benedikt

Renjith Pillai · Answer

There are some areas in which Community bubbles may not satisfy you as it lacks the below features (as per my understanding)

* Replies to be handled via emails into the forums
* Forum level administrators for spam and content management
* Forum level security to be enforced, as the pages follow the space level security

SimonS · Answer

Hi Benedikt,

We don't provide forum/BB functionality out of the box, but there are a couple of resources you should check out:

http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DISC/Confluence+as+a+Forum

http://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=157232

-Simon