We have users that are getting confused over the forum view on the "Forum" tab, and the forum itself, so my thought is that we might need to just give them one choice. Is there a way to not show the Forum tab, but still show the Group Forum menu item?

Thanks for the explanation, we will look into that. Hacking the application is probably not in our best interest, but if there was a setting at the group level that could hide the forum tab but still show the Group Forum menu item - it would help.

It's not all that confusing to us, but to a user just starting out in online communities and forum applications, it is; a lot of our audience is new to forum use (so we are trying to make it as simple as possible to use). The main sources of confusion are that 1. there are 2 forum views (the Forum tab and the forum itself), 2. often our groups are divided into sub-groups and one sub-group is not usually interested in the posts related to another subgroup (the Forum tab co-mingles all topics), and finally there are 3 different ways to get into the forum, each of which land the [unacquainted] user in a different place:

1. Click on thread in the Forum tab
2. Group Menu / Group Forum link
3. Link in forum notification emails. (this is why I PM'd you about putting the forum message in the email, trying to mitigate their need to go to the forum just to find out what was posted)

The confusion is fueled by the lack of a "Back-to-Group" button, because they have to find their way back through the site navigation (takes 2 - 3 clicks).

Anyway, I guess what we really need is K2.0 so the group forums can be viewed within the GJ application.

I'm having this exact issue with my users as well.. They're confusion between the forum and groups tab. Where can I edit the field name? Perhaps there is a language file somewhere that I can edit to rename these tabs? A simple name change of this tab/field would avoid a lot of user confusion.