Discussion Board Feature

As we look to drive greater value from our IT investments, more and more organizations are leveraging their SharePoint platforms for a greater range of organizational functions, including as a Discussion Board. However, SharePoint forum lists do not include some of the very basic features we have all come to expect in a real Discussion Board.

Now, with KWizCom’s Discussion Board Feature, you can make SharePoint look and act like a real Discussion Board! This means you can manage multiple discussion boards by group and/or subject, including the handling of abusive and helpful posts, as well as get helpful usage statistics. What’s more, your users get robust editing capabilities for graphic and textual content.

SharePoint forum is just another type of list template which enables saving posts and replies. The gap between the SharePoint forum lists and real Discussion Boards services (like those available on the internet) is quite big, and includes some very basic and critical missing features such as:

• There is no discussion board index that enables managing multiple discussion boards under groups/subjects
• Editing capabilities are very limited
  No ability to control the visibility of specific discussion boards
• No out-of-the-box ability to manage abusive/helpful posts
• No discussion board statistics
• Limited Look N feel – SharePoint forums look like lists…very far from Internet-style forums