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Before you are set to go live, you should be aware of the FrontEnd administrator functions. If you do not set an administrator, then you will have to process messages in the TYPO3 Backend. If you do set one or more users as an administrator, then you can let them process and handle the support for the Discussion pages.
To set someone as administrator, you just add their TYPO3 Frontend User ID (or their User Name) to the Administrator field in the Flexform. You can have a list of administrators if you want – just separate their IDs or usernames with a comma.
The main functions an administrator can do in the FrontEnd are:
The administrator can go to the Discussion page and choose to delete any messages. Please note that once a message is deleted it cannot be retrieved within the Discussion Forum administration (you can retrieve it using special TYPO3 extensions like 'wastebasket').
The administrator can go to the Discussion page and edit any message. Only under rare circumstances should an administrator edit a person's message. However, if someone posted personal information and the instructions say not to, the administrator may want to keep the post but edit out the personal information.
If the Discussion page is moderated, all entries posted to it will be sent to all the administrators before they show up on the page. An email will be sent for the moderated message, and an administrator can then click on the link to access the moderated message list for that Discussion page. Once there, he or she can then choose to approve or discard the messages that are posted. If approved, the message will be shown immediately on the Discussion page. If any messages are discarded, they will be deleted and removed from the moderator queue. Once the moderated messages are processed, no one else is notified unless they subscribe to the Discussion page; those users will see the ones that are approved.
