To configure question settings, follow these steps:
- From the Content tab of the Administrator Dashboard, select General Settings from the Node Structure menu of the Content Navigation sidebar.
Result: The General Node Settings pane is displayed with the Question Settings tab pre-selected.
- In the Maximum Answer Characters field, enter the maximum number of characters a user can type in an answer to a question.
- Select the required checkboxes that apply from the following options:
- Enable Markdown for Questions? -Allows users to use markdown formatting in their questions.
- Use relative time for dates -Uses a relative time for the time since a question was added instead of a simple date.
- Use original creation date instead of publication date - Uses the original date that a question was created instead of the date that it was published.
- Question Body Required? -Requires users to fill out the body of a question and not just type a question and post it.
- Treat 'unanswered' as questions without accepted answers - Makes the AnswerHub system treat unanswered questions and questions without accepted answers the same way.
- Exclude 'closed' items from unanswered lists- The AnswerHub system will leave closed questions out of the unanswered questions list.
- Enter the required information in the following fields:
- Minimum Characters in a Title -The minimum number of characters a user can enter for a question title.
- Maximum Characters in a Title - The maximum number of characters a user can enter for a question title.
- Minimum Characters in the Question Body -The minimum number of characters a user can enter for a question body.
- Allowed Accepted Answers Per Question -The number of answers a user can accept for a given question.
- Number of answers per page on the single question view -The number of answers displayed per page for a specific question.
- Min Topics -The minimum number of topics a user can enter for a question.
- Max Topics - The maximum number of topics a user can enter for a question.
- Regular Expression for Topics -The Java pattern that determines the regular expression that topics must conform to, such as the number of characters a topic can have.
- Click the Save (
)button.
Result: A green bar that reads Content settings have been saved successfully. is displayed at the top of the Content Settings pane.
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