How hard would it be to coerce InstantForum to use a different database for user authentication?  It's fine for it to use separate tables for other forum data, but the user authentication process (and other admin functions) may be quite different for the parent site. 

I am specifically interested in integrating the control into one of the ASP.NET starter kits, but the question is relevant for integration with any third-party site.

Hi John,

Thank you for your post and interest in the forum. This would be quite simple to accomplish. You would need to copy our various member table fields into your users table and update the login and profile stored procedures to point to your database. You should not even have to make changes to the code providing you host both databases on the same SQL Server.

I would be happy to provide a money back guarantee to allow you to try this before your commit. Please let me know if this answers your questions, if you require any further information please don't hesitate to contact me on support@instantasp.co.uk or reply to this thread.

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Ryan, what about email subscriptions for the instantforum...is this possible?

I just purchaced your software and want to upgrade my existing asp.net forums to use your app. is that going to be a nightmare?

Nick

Hi Nick,

Great Suggestion

When you say email subscriptions do you mean per topic or per forum. You can currently track individual topics via email using the "Email me replies to this topic" checkbox. This is also now integrated into the post.aspx page (version 1.6) to allow you to automatically track threads.

Please let me know in a little more detail what you require and i will look at adding this to the next release.

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I have seen it on another forum using asp.net.

Have a look here http://www.singingpig.co.uk/forums/Default.aspx

In order to see that page you have to join their forum. No word yet from the creator of that forum on how he did it

I have seen it on another forum using asp.net. Have a look here http://www.singingpig.co.uk/forums/Default.aspx In order to see that page you have to join their forum. No word yet from the creato...

Thanks Nick, I'll check that out

Please let me know if you hear back from the author. I'll let you know should this suggestion be added

BTW : Like the new version ? - You should receive this shortly

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1.6...Very nice!

Since moving from MSN Groups to an asp.net 1.0 forum we've had alot of mixed reviews. I hope to change that once we get your InstantForum installed. The leading complaint I get using Rob Howards forums is not being able to edit or delete posts. Only the moderators and admins can edit or delete posts but it would be nice to let members have this permission for their own posts.

My other interest was to get your forum inside my asp.net portal. Do you know how this is done?

Here is another site who's author is too busy to tell me how he did it...

http://cambridgepublic.us/go/contentservlet.aspx?tabindex=1&tabid=31 

Thanks,

Nick

Hi Nick,

Thank you for your kind words regarding 1.6

Allowing users to edit there posts is a planned feature and will be available within version 2.0 which i'm currently busy working on - This will also include full administration and moderation features.

Integrating version 1.6 of the forums into your site is much easier than the previous versions. 1.6 encapsulates all the pages within ASP.NET user controls, this way you can declare the control at the top of your portal pages and simply include the user control where you wish the forums to appear.

I'll be sending version 1.6 to all our users shortly. I've delayed this process as i've been testing 1.6 over the last couple of days.

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Hi Ryan,

I'm a proud new owner of forums 1.6.  Naturally, I'm wondering if v2 be available to 1.6 users?

If so...I'm getting well into integration with my site (proving simple enough, so far..well done!) just in time to find out about the impending release of v2.  Could you let me (and the other curious folks out there) what changes and additions you're planning and perhaps an estimate on a release date?

Thanks a million,
Jay.

Thanks for your reply, Ryan.  Can we drill down a bit further?

I would like to have a user control that wraps the forum so it can be embedded easily on an aspx page.  In that case, how would the forum handle postbacks?  Do you have such a control already created for the product, and does it support design mode?  Is there any client-side scripting support?  Would I need a develope