# Forum Tools that can help you run your Affiliate Group!

**Category:** [openEHR Affiliates](https://discourse.openehr.org/c/openehr-affiliates/11)
**Created:** 2025-09-05 11:11 UTC
**Views:** 77
**Replies:** 2
**URL:** https://discourse.openehr.org/t/forum-tools-that-can-help-you-run-your-affiliate-group/7105

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## Post #1 by @marcusbaw

Hi all openEHR Affiliates,

Recently I found myself offering some suggestions to a new Affiliate group of tools that we have within Discourse that can be used to enhance the forum experience for your Affiliate group. I thought afterwards that the list may be of use to the rest of #openehr-affiliates so am dropping the info in here as well.

### Tools that can help you within our Discourse forum (all the below are already installed in our Discourse):

* **Wiki Posts** (useful for persistent informational content) https://meta.discourse.org/t/editing-and-creating-wiki-posts/30801

* **Discourse Calendar and Events** (great for Affiliate events, meetings etc) https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-calendar-and-event/97376

* **Discourse Chat** https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-chat/230881

* **Kanban Board** (useful for project planning) https://meta.discourse.org/t/kanban-board/118164

* **PDF Inline Previews** (nice way to bring existing documentation into forum) https://meta.discourse.org/t/inline-pdf-previews/157649

* **Page Publishing** (good for some website-y content which you just want to have at a regular URL - for examnple an Affiliate 'landing page') https://meta.discourse.org/t/page-publishing/151971 (note that only Admins can *publish* a page, but you can write the page first and I just publish it for you)



Please do feel free to explore these features and do let me know if you have any issues or requests.

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## Post #2 by @siljelb

Thanks Marcus, many of these are really useful! I thought I’d just mention that some also are overlapping with functionality in Confluence and Jira, which affiliates also can use at [https://openehr.atlassian.net/wiki/home](https://openehr.atlassian.net/wiki/home)

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## Post #3 by @HHeiser

Dear Silje,

that sounds great! It could also be interesting for the Swiss Affiliate Group openehr.ch :slight_smile: Would that be free of charge for affiliates?

Do you know who I could approach to see if we could get our own space on the openEHR Confluence?

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