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KWizCom's SharePoint Discussion Board Feature will provide a full set of familiar internet Discussion Board features that you can easily customize to match the look & feel of your SharePoint implementation.

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.

FEATURES:

· Easier to use, slick, internet-style discussion boards interface
· Display discussion board statistics
· Forum Index (Group discussion boards by subject)
· Ability to publish a discussion board
· Enable searching discussion boards in topics, posts, author and easily define the search scope – all embedded in the discussion boards interface.
· Manage abusive posts
· RSS Subscriptions at the discussion board level
· RSS Subscriptions at the discussion thread (topic) level
· Display top contributors by post count, by answers and by helpful posts (as judged by other users)
· Display discussion summary statistics (forum count, thread count, post count, last post info)
· Advanced editing capabilities: Emoticons, Flash, movie clips and Silverlight support, easily attach files and more
· Central management of multiple forums distributed across multiple sites
· Fully customizable through CSS and user controls
· Control users’ ability to edit/delete posts per discussion board
· Display relative timestamps (e.g. "Posted 2 hours 30 minutes ago")
· Cross-browser
· Multi-lingual