Forum Module data saved if uninstalled?

If I uninstall the forum module will the members post be saved in the database in the event I decide to reinstall the forum module? If so will it also maintain the forum structure that I have built? Thanks.

 If you uninstall any module in Dolphin, you will lose the existing data.

What I would do is to leave the forum in place if you think you will use it in the future and simply disable the menu links.  You can also export the forum tables; but you need to export all of them.  Then in the future you would reinstall the forum module and then import the data back in.  Hiding the menu is as simply as unchecking the visible for

I may export the tables as you have mentioned to avoid a whole ghost section of my site being indexed by the search engines. People will end up at the forum by accident often through a search whether it be the site search or google etc and think the forum is a ghost town since it isn't used. Export makes sense. Thanks. Hopefully it is only the tables with the obvious.

I think you are not see the prefix bx_events.

The forum has integration into other modules, such as groups.

If you are worried about search engines, you can tell the search engines to not crawl the forums.

The main tables for the forum will be bx_forum prefix.  You would want to export all of those tables.  I am not sure about the integration into other modules; the information in those are stored outside the main forum but the forum module is used to display them; such as your screenshot of bx_events.

One of the things that you would need to do is to follow the code from the classes that are imported into the files. It can get tedious and time consuming but it's one of the things that all programmers and developers will eventually do. 

By inspecting the classes, you can then determine the various tables and interactions it has with the forum. Here's the link to the list of classes that I've used in the past. To get the most recent one, you can use your current install to generate a list from the files using the doxygen app.

https://www.boonex.com/doc/classes.html

 I'm an idiot I didn't even pay attention before screenshotting it. In my defense I'm a little rusty as I took a good 6 months off from this kind of stuff.  Also just got home from a 12 hour night shift. Those are my excuses anyway. Thanks to both of you. I understand what needs done.

Don't feel that way :P

Dolphin is a big app. It is very easy to get lost in the classes. Add to that the other dependencies, it is easy why many developers just give up. It is not for the faint of heart. When I work on WordPress sites, it's like a walk in the park. Granted WP is a completely different beast and its goals are entirely different.

Anyway good luck to you. Keep at it.