Forum subscriptions

The subscriptions allow you to subscribe a user to either a forum or a thread. When a new thread (respectively new post) is submitted, the user will get a notification. The Forums API exposes both methods for subscribing and unsubscribing users. For more information, see the examples bellow.

To subscribe the user you must call the static SubscribeUser method of the ForumsManager class. It takes the following arguments:

• user
  Represents an instance of the user that you want to subscribe.
• subscriptionType
  Represents the type of the subscription. The argument is of type Telerik.Sitefinity.Forums.SubscriptionType. The enumeration has the following values:
• Forum
  Specifies that the subscription is made for a forum.
• Thread
  Specifies that the subscription is made for a thread.
• itemId
  The ID of the forum or the thread that you want to subscribe the user for.

Here is a code example:

To unsubscribe the user you must call the static UnsubscribeUser method of the ForumsManager class. It takes the following arguments:

• user
  Represents an instance of the user that you want to unsubscribe.
• subscriptionType
  Represents the type of the subscription. The argument is of type Telerik.Sitefinity.Forums.SubscriptionType. The enumeration has the following values:
• Forum
  Specifies that the subscription is made for a forum.
• Thread
  Specifies that the subscription is made for a thread.
• itemId
  The ID of the forum or the thread that you want to unsubscribe the user for.

Here is a code example: