I recently installed FireBoard with my Joomla installation, which also uses Community Builder. One thing I noticed is the absence of a decent set of step-by-step instructions for the FireBoard install.

I’ll list here the quick and dirty installation instructions for Joomla FireBoard using Community Builder which I found to be quite simple.

You must note that this is a ‘clean’ installation. I had not had any other Board component installed with Community Builder before hand.

The first step is to download the FireBoard component and FireBoard CB Plugin. Links for downloading the 2 are below:

1. FireBoard - Download Info
2. FireBoard CB Plugin - Download Info

Installation:

FireBoard is a Component, so you will install it as so. The following steps walks you through installing the component, setup of database tables, and loading sample data.

1. fire up your Admin
2. select Installers => Components
3. browse for file (component_Fireboard_Forum_1.0.0) and Install
4. select Components => Fireboard Forums
5. select Apply for ‘Clean Installation’
6. select Compoents => FireBoard Forums
7. select ‘Load Sample Data’

Now, that should be enough to have loaded up FireBoard for your Joomla installation. The next thing is to load the FireBoard CB Plugin.

1. still in Admin
2. select Components => Community Builder => Plugin Management
3. select Install Plugin
4. select Publish the new Plugin

Now, the next thing to do is to link it. In this case I linked it to the main public menu, but you can link it to anything you’d like. Personal preference I suppose.

1. still in Admin
2. select Menu => mainmenu
3. select New
4. select Component
5. select Next
6. select Fireboard Forum (Name it: Forum (or whatever))
7. select Save

Ok, so that’s the quick and dirty. I’ll be sure to update this with any additional information I find.