Questions tagged [discussion-board]
Discussion boards provide forums for site participants to discuss important and useful topics with each other.
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How to validate incoming items & use AND/OR Function
I’m a bit confused on how to use the Validation Settings for SharePoint List/Discussion Board.
In my discussion board there is a Country Column and one of the default Subject Column. My intention is ...
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Add a Column to the "Used By" Section of a Discussion Board in Classic SP
I have created a discussion board in classic SharePoint. By default, there are three things you can choose when creating a new discussion: Subject, Body, and selecting whether or not your discussion ...
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SharePoint 2016 Classic Discussion Board webpart not showing replies and content
I’m working on move SharePoint 2013 to SharePoint 2016 classic. Moving all the Discussion Board posts is the last thing remaining. To do so, I was able to export Discussions in .STP format (with ...
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Does the "discussion board" application send a invitation to every team member?
I recently had a unfortunate experience when adding Yammer to our company Intranet in SharePoint Online.
After creating a new discussion, a invitation had been sent to everyone in the company. I want ...
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Modify view in SharePoint Web Part
I created a discussion board and would like to hide the new discussion part as well as the views listed below and the line (divider) that is underneath that too.
Is there any kind of code to help in ...
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How to make Discussions visible at Recent Discussions?
I made a number of tiles with discussions underneath. There is already some activity. How do I link it to Recent Discussions on the main page? There is nothing to see now. Not even when I click on ...
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Deleting Discussion Board I Accidentally Created on Separate Page
I accidentally created a discussion board on my company’s sharepoint site and it seems to have been made on a separate page on its own. I need to know how to delete this discussion board?
Thank you!
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Edit responses in Sharepoint 2016 Discussion Board
I have a discussion board that is created in a SharePoint 2016 onprem version. Is it possible to allow someone to edit the reply's to the topics in the Discussion board - if so, how do you set it up?
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Creating sharepoint discussion list item using REST API
I am consuming sharepoint discussion REST API's in my application.
While creating new discussion (Reference: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25050112/creating-a-sharepoint-2013-discussion-item-...
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REST API to add replies to a share point discussion
I am able to post a reply to share point discussion with help of below link.
REST Call to Post a Reply to a Discussion Board Topic w/o JSOM
but here for posting a message ContentTypeId is required.As ...
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Sharepoint REST API to retrieve discussion replies
I used below URL to retrieve list of replies for a discussion in SharePoint.
/_api/web/Lists/GetByTitle('DiscussionBoard')/GetItems(query=@v1)?@v1={"ViewXml":"<View Scope='Recursive'&...
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What are the exposed REST api in Discussion board?
I am trying to utilize REST api to get/set discussion list fields. I am facing issue for following fields,
I am able to set below fields using CSOM but I want to set it using REST api because I am ...
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How do I enable rating for SharePoint 2016 Discussion board and not send out an email notification?
I have a SharePoint 2016 site with a Discussion Board. We want to enable the Like ration option, but not send an email notification to the person who posted the topic.
Here are the 2 scenarios I see ...
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Spview listview item count shows wrong?
We got a list and listview to group our items. But sometimes the total count is showing wrong number. I added sample picture to explain it. In this picture, Type is Form and it says there is one file ...
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Discussion Board - Missing Title
One of our Discussion Boards was configured to hide the Title field in the form (column was set to hidden in the Discussion Content Type).
As a result people could add an entry but it would show up ...
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Can we allow the comment section (under All Replies >> Oldest) inside the "Discussion Board" list to show more than 20 replies on each page
We have added a Discussion Board list to our sharepoint online classic team site.
Currently when we click on a discussion item, the main view (under All Replies >> Oldest)
for each discussion will ...
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DiscussionBoard- SharePoint online
How to tag people in discussion board in SharePoint online?
Also will they get notified if they are tagged?
My view is this
how to get the the site feed ??
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Discussion Board - Reply Email Workflow
I have a workflow that sends a notification to selected users when a new discussion topic has been added
however when a person replies to a message i cannot get it to add the subject or the URL to ...
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How to set unanswered questions as a default view on my discussion board?
I'm trying to create an "unanswered questions" view on my discussion board so that users cannot see previous questions I've answered.
I've got SharePoint Designer 2013, however the software is still ...
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move discussion board library items?
I have a site where I have a Discussion Board which has Contribute permissions for a group. I want to add a webpart with the ability to read-only (not upload) files. I created 2 groups... one ...
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"Add new discussion" Is Creating a Message Instead of a Discussion
When I click New Item > Discussion, it correctly creates a discussion.
However, when I click Add new discussion, it creates a message instead of a discussion.
Note that the default content type is a ...
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Modern Communication site, discussion board, adding rating impossible?
If you turn on the site feature of Team sites you get to have the full stack of apps, however adding a discussion board there is no 'rating settings' in the settings and even if you go there by ...
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Add an Attachments section to a discussion board form
I have a discussion board and I want the users to have the ability to add attachments to their post. I know that this can be done through the ribbon but I was looking for a way to put it into the form ...
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Hiding User Info on a Discussion Board
We have a discussion board on SharePoint where we would like to prevent a general user from seeing who submitted or replied to a post. I have not been able to find a way to modify the view to remove ...
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Number of views in discussion board
how can show the number of views for each item in a discussion board
I need to show the number of views as a new column in a discussion board
subject || likes || views
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what are the discussion board alternatives in SharePoint
please let me know if there are any alternatives for discussion board in sharepoint!
what's the type of customization can be achieved in the current boring discussion board?
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Unable to hide custom columns in Discussion Board
I have added some custom fields to a Discussion Board list in SP 2013 that are populated using Workflow. I do not want these to appear in any of the create or edit item views.
I have marked the items ...
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move shortcut to mark an answer "Best Reply" in a discussion board
The option to mark an answer as "Best Reply" is buried inside the "..." in an answer on a discussion board. I want to bring it out of the "..." and make it easier to see/access. Maybe right before the ...
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Discussion Board can't reply to some posts but can for others
I have created an OOTB discussion boards but for some users there is an issue with replying to some of the discussions. In some cases they get they don't have permissions to post a reply but in other ...
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How to stop mails from triggering via workflow when an item is liked in discussion forum in sharepoint 2013?
I have created a discussion forum in SharePoint 2013 it has a workflow which sends an email when a new item is added or an existing item is modifies. But, when an item in the discussion forum is liked ...
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How to adjust the length of Discussion Text Box?
A simple question but i was not able to change the text box and it keeps cutting off words i have copied and pasted- as can be seen below with the line
I have check properties but not having success ...
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Aggregated Search
I am trying to make the search bar on my SharePoint page search both a wiki library and previous posts on a discussion board. The page I am working on is a resource center, so I want users to be able ...
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Create list item trough workflow fired by another list
I'm using SPD 2013, but the workflows are from 2010 version.
I wrote a workflow meant to add a new item to a Discussion List. This workflow is started when another list is edited. For instance, when ...
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How to I change the URL in SideNav in Discussion Board
I would like to find out if there is a way to change the URL of the Side Navi/Bar items? For example i want to change the link for Categories to another Site Page called Navigation Tiles
When i go ...
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How to access 'Is Featured Discussion' column in 'Management' view discussion board list?
I want to know whether,
'Is Featured Discussion' column in Discussion Board List -->
Management View is a Site Column or List Column ?
How to access that column ?
How to re-use that column in other ...
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How is Discussion post "Popularity" calculated
Does anybody know how the "Popularity" column value is calculated for a Community discussion post?
I found this thread, but the "answers" all point to how to access or something else about popularity ...
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Create a discussion board/ forum embedded in SharePoint
I would like to pick your brain on the following issue:
I am looking to create a discussion board, basically something similar to SharePoint Stack Exchange site: A site where users can share and ...
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"Email a link" list function working inconsistently in SharePoint Online
I migrated a discussion board from SP2013 to SPOnline, but have had users complain about the "Email a link" function sometimes generating broken links. After a bit of testing I found that the issue is ...
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No email notification on custom discussion list
On my social profile, I've configured the newsfeed settings in order to receive all the emails, as follows :
When someone answers to a discussion I've created on the default Discussions list of a ...
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Sharepoint 2013 Discussion list webpart access denied
I'm facing issues with forum discussion. I'm trying to add one in my page. I did the following steps:
-Go to Site Contents and add a new Discussion Board list.
-Create a discussion
-Go to the page ...
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Discussion board topic URL
Following situation:
I have a calendar with events, where attendees can register. When the event starts a topic for the event is created in a discussion board. When it is created every attendee should ...
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Online - Missing spaces in emails sent from Workflow
I've created a SharePoint 2010 Workflow. This Workflow sends an email with a simple body (no tables, just regular/bold text) when a new post is created in the discussion board on SharePoint Online. ...
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Restricting Reply on Discussion Board
How can I set the permissions for the discussion board so that anyone can post a topic, but only certain users are able to reply?
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On item creation in Discussion List send email with JavaScript
I am working on discussion list, i am trying to send the item link to the users with JavaScript, as soon as the item is created.
But i can find something like, Post Save Action.
Any suggestion on ...
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Discussion board reply, tagging a person to notify them
We are using the Discussion Board found in the Community Site (Sharepoint Online), and realizing that we cannot tag users in a reply to a discussion topic.
When I start to tag, upon typing the @ sign,...
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SharePoint 2010 discussion board item link in workflow
I am trying to create a designer workflow in SharePoint 2010 for a discussion board. I am sending out email to the users associated to that discussion when ever an item is created/changed. Now i am ...
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How to allow Contributor users to mark discussion board items as Featured
I am working on a Discussion Board list inside sharepoint on-premises 2013. and i added a discussion board list inside my team site. where this team site have the publishing features enabled.
But i ...
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@Mention someone inside some discussion boards will be shown inside the "MySite>NewsFeed>Mentions", while on other Discussion Boards it will not
I am facing this weird behavior inside my SharePoint enterprise farm 2013. when i have enabled the "Community Site Feature" inside my team sites.
The problem details is as follow:-
I have 2 site ...
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Use Search API to get all discussion items with null ParentItemID
I'm using a Sharepoint Discussion Board, and trying to display search results on my page, displaying only the items, without the replies. I tried only getting results without a ParentItemID by adding ...
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Like a discussion board item using powershell
I want to write a power-shell script to like a discussion item by a user. now i tried the following :-
$web = Get-SPWeb "http://**/"
$list=$web.Lists.TryGetList("News");
$user = $...