Discussion Board in SharePoint 2010

Introduction

Today, in this article let's play around with one of the interesting and most useful concepts in SharePoint 2010.

Question: What is Discussion Board?
 
In simple terms "It enables posting/managing any discussion by a group of people on site". I think we are now good to go and implement this wonderful concept.

Step 1: Open SharePoint 2010 central administration and navigate to a specific site:

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Step 2: Select discussion board from the listed category. Give a name to the discussion board:

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Step 3: The discussion board is now created. The site looks like this:

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Step 4: Adding a new discussion:

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Step 5: The discussion is now posted and the site looks like this:

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Step 6: Posting a reply to the discussion:

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Step 7: The discussion reply is posted and the site now looks like this:

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I hope this article is useful for you. I look forward to your comments and feedback.


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