Comments on articles in Forum

Hello

I'm a complete newbie to yacs and have a lot to learn...so please bear with me

I'm trying to set it up so that for articles posted in a section, the comments appear in a discussion board (forum), rather than just below the article.

Say as a setup for the articles, I have:

Main Section - subsection 1 - subsection 2

I would like to have ONE central forum, which has separate corresponding categeories of subsections 1 & 2

So when posting a comment to an article in subsection 1, it appears in the corresponding forum

In terms of displaying the comments, could either or both methods be done:

a)Below the article, you don't see the comments/forum, but just a link saying, for example, 2 posted comments. And clicking on the link takes you that forum

And/or:

b) You see the comments in the forum below the article; and these comments also appear in the central single forum. But here you don't see the whole article in the forum, just the original back link to it

Hope this makes sense

thanks for your time