QC Live Forum Administrator Tabs Explained
QC Live Forum 1.1.27 uses seven Administrator tabs: About, Support, Status, Settings, Email, Sections & Categories, and CSS.
There is no current backend Moderation tab for daily community work. Moderation is intentionally handled from the frontend Moderation workspace.
About
About provides the product overview, explains the forum/live model, highlights licensing and automation, and presents All Access information when relevant. Use it as orientation rather than as the primary configuration page.
Support
Support links to QuantaCade support, account/subscription resources, product information, the QCLF walkthrough, and the QuantaCade site. It also shows a deliberately non-secret support-information summary.
Status
Status is the health dashboard. It shows entitlement state, Base and Effective tiers, verification method, domain/access dates, entitlement-task integrity, installation/version information, the tier feature snapshot, and Joomla update-site/update status.
Settings
Settings contains the current global forum configuration and operational policy controls. It also includes the Authorized-Domain entitlement card, masked Legacy License Key compatibility information when present, live-session controls, content/abuse policy settings, and other global behavior.
Email manages QCLF notification templates, publication state, recipients, test sends, built-in/custom HTML behavior, custom templates where entitled, and administrator notification addresses. Commercial gates are enforced server-side.
Sections & Categories
Sections & Categories is the structure board for creating, editing, publishing, ordering, and moving forum Sections and Categories. It shows current plan capacity, sample rows, Topic counts, access labels, and structure actions.
CSS
CSS manages saved frontend Custom CSS. Current use requires Max or All Access; preserved CSS can remain stored after downgrade even when it is not applied. The tab loads the CSS editor only when needed.
Permissions Still Apply
Opening the component requires Joomla backend component access, while each state-changing action is separately checked against QCLF permissions such as Manage Settings, Manage License, Manage Forum, or Manage Moderation. A visible tab is not itself authorization.
Legacy tab names such as Help/Docs or old appearance aliases are redirected into the current tab set; an old moderation tab request routes away from a nonexistent daily-backend moderation workflow.
Community Discussion
Want to compare forum workflows, share practical QCLF tips, or discuss how other Joomla site owners use this feature? Visit the QC Live Forum Community. For private support, bug reports, account-specific entitlement problems, or feature requests, use the QuantaCade support system.