Hello everyone,
I work in a company that uses vBulletin as a (Self-hosted) private community for (announcements, generalizations, discussions, tutorial articles, tips and instructions, how-to, resources, and more) for employees only.
I have been reading and watching some videos about XenForo for some time now and I think it will be a good upgrade for us.
I am thinking about keeping the old vBulletin forum under an archive folder, not using the importer script, and starting XenForo in fresh installation for some reasons that have nothing to do with any of XenForo or vBulletin or even how the importing script itself.
However, I do still have some questions about using XenForo as a nonpublic privet community.
1- Is there a recommendation article about setting up and managing the XenForo as a privet community that I need to read?
2- Once we have the registration only by invitation, then it not working anymore, so we stop user registration and add every new employee manually from the admin area.
In XenForo what would be the best practice to allow only employees to sign up? (if any) or do we just add new users from the admin area?
please note that we have (active directory) enabled in our company, but I don’t know if it is supported on XenForo.
3- I see that XenForo does have a (questions and answer) posting type, which is nice and will be used.
However, I have one section for (HR) where any employee can ask a question but only the HR manager can answer so there will be no voting for the best answer because there will be only one answer from one person.
Is this possible?
4- Sometimes we force-read a topic to all users, this is done in vBulletin by an add-on.
Can we have this in any way or form on XenForo?
5- Is it possible to assign one user to more than one user group?
6- in (Resource Manager) Can we make different access permissions for different categories?
For example, user-group A can access category A only and user-group B can access category B only.
7- Can we add custom pages?
I see that you have a forum type (Article) which is nice and will be used, but we also need to have custom/static pages that are not under any category/node.
8-1- How does XenForo handle multi-language interfaces?
8-2- Does XenForo support RTL (Right to Left) interface?
8-3- Does XenForo support multi-language content in any way if needed?
* Using third-party add-ons is ok but not recommended.
More questions:
9- After purchasing a Self-hosted license can I install it twice? One production under the main domain and one development under the sub-domain (dev.same-domain.com) or on localhost?
10- What characters character set to UTF8 UTF8MB4 to use for English/Arabic content?
utf8mb4_general_ci
utf8mb4_unicode_ci
utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci
or something else is recommended?
11- If I install XenForo on the root of my domain, can I keep vBulletin in a subfolder for archive or do I need to move it outside like a sub-domain? (archive.my-domain.com)
That’s all for now.
Thank you
I work in a company that uses vBulletin as a (Self-hosted) private community for (announcements, generalizations, discussions, tutorial articles, tips and instructions, how-to, resources, and more) for employees only.
I have been reading and watching some videos about XenForo for some time now and I think it will be a good upgrade for us.
I am thinking about keeping the old vBulletin forum under an archive folder, not using the importer script, and starting XenForo in fresh installation for some reasons that have nothing to do with any of XenForo or vBulletin or even how the importing script itself.
However, I do still have some questions about using XenForo as a nonpublic privet community.
1- Is there a recommendation article about setting up and managing the XenForo as a privet community that I need to read?
2- Once we have the registration only by invitation, then it not working anymore, so we stop user registration and add every new employee manually from the admin area.
In XenForo what would be the best practice to allow only employees to sign up? (if any) or do we just add new users from the admin area?
please note that we have (active directory) enabled in our company, but I don’t know if it is supported on XenForo.
3- I see that XenForo does have a (questions and answer) posting type, which is nice and will be used.
However, I have one section for (HR) where any employee can ask a question but only the HR manager can answer so there will be no voting for the best answer because there will be only one answer from one person.
Is this possible?
4- Sometimes we force-read a topic to all users, this is done in vBulletin by an add-on.
Can we have this in any way or form on XenForo?
5- Is it possible to assign one user to more than one user group?
6- in (Resource Manager) Can we make different access permissions for different categories?
For example, user-group A can access category A only and user-group B can access category B only.
7- Can we add custom pages?
I see that you have a forum type (Article) which is nice and will be used, but we also need to have custom/static pages that are not under any category/node.
8-1- How does XenForo handle multi-language interfaces?
8-2- Does XenForo support RTL (Right to Left) interface?
8-3- Does XenForo support multi-language content in any way if needed?
* Using third-party add-ons is ok but not recommended.
More questions:
9- After purchasing a Self-hosted license can I install it twice? One production under the main domain and one development under the sub-domain (dev.same-domain.com) or on localhost?
10- What characters character set to UTF8 UTF8MB4 to use for English/Arabic content?
utf8mb4_general_ci
utf8mb4_unicode_ci
utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci
or something else is recommended?
11- If I install XenForo on the root of my domain, can I keep vBulletin in a subfolder for archive or do I need to move it outside like a sub-domain? (archive.my-domain.com)
That’s all for now.
Thank you
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