Discussions - Knowledge Base
How to Add Discussions to Microsoft Teams
Step-by-step guide to using Vitextra Discussions as a tab in a Microsoft Teams channel: publishing the app from the SharePoint App Catalog, adding the tab, creating or selecting a board on the team's SharePoint site, configuring the tab, how permissions, approval and deep links behave in Teams, and what to check if the tab is empty.
How to Build an Internal Q&A Forum for Your Intranet with Discussions
Step-by-step scenario for an IT help desk or HR question-and-answer forum on a SharePoint Online intranet with the Vitextra Discussions web part: a board in Q&A mode with categories, the Unanswered view as the default, experts following the board, marking the best answer, pinned and locked topics, moderation, and the Discussions Activity web part on the home page.
How to Run a Community of Practice or Class Forum with Discussions
Step-by-step scenario for a community of practice or a course forum on SharePoint Online and Microsoft Teams with the Vitextra Discussions web part: a board in mixed mode with discussions and questions, approval of new posts by the instructor, pinned and locked rules topics, code blocks and images in replies, the moderation queue, @mentions and the weekly digest.
Likes, Views and Reply Counters in Discussions
How the Vitextra Discussions web part counts likes, views and replies: where each counter is shown in the topic list, the topic page and the Discussions Activity web part, who can like a topic or a reply, when a view is counted, how pending and deleted replies affect the reply counter, what moves a topic to the top of the Recent view, what readers without write permission see, why a counter may lag and which list columns hold the numbers.
Marking the Best Answer in Q&A Topics
How the best answer works in question topics on a Vitextra Discussions board: who can click Mark as answer (the author of the question or a moderator), how the accepted answer is pinned to the top of the thread, what the Answered and Unanswered states and views mean, how to change or remove the mark, what happens when the accepted reply is deleted, and how locked questions keep their Answered state.
Permissions in Discussions: Who Can Read, Post and Moderate
Reference for site owners and administrators on how the Vitextra Discussions web part maps SharePoint site permissions to what users can do: readers with Read, members with Add Items (Contribute / Edit) who post, reply, like, follow and report, and moderators with Manage Lists who approve, pin, feature, lock and delete. Covers guests, the default Members group, the visibility rule for pending posts and unique permissions on the Discussions lists.
Pinning, Featuring and Locking Topics
How moderators pin, feature and lock topics in Vitextra Discussions: the Pinned, Featured and Locked buttons in the topic view, how a pinned topic stays at the top of every view, how the Featured view and the Featured default view work, what a locked topic allows and forbids, how unlocking restores the status, and how the same flags look in the Discussions Topics list.
Replying in Threads: Reply, Edit and Delete
How replies work on a Vitextra Discussions board in SharePoint Online and Microsoft Teams: the threaded reply tree with nested replies, replying to the topic or to a specific reply, editing your own replies, why a reply with replies under it cannot be deleted, likes and reports, and what changes in locked topics and on boards that require approval.
Reporting Inappropriate Posts in Discussions
How to report an inappropriate topic or reply in the Vitextra Discussions web part: who sees the Report button, what happens after you click it, why you can report a post only once, where moderators find reported topics and replies in the moderation queue, what Dismiss reports and Delete do, what is stored in the Reports and Reported by columns and how to get notified about new reports.
Sharing a Link to a Topic in Discussions (Deep Links)
How deep links work in the Vitextra Discussions web part: the ?topic=ID parameter that the web part adds to the page address when you open a topic, how to copy and share the link, what happens when it is opened, how the Discussions Activity web part and Power Automate notification emails build the same link with the Board page URL setting, how the link behaves in Microsoft Teams and on a phone, and the limits to know.
Showing Recent Discussions on Any Page with the Discussions Activity Web Part
How to add and configure the Discussions Activity web part of Vitextra Discussions on a SharePoint Online page or in a Microsoft Teams tab: what the list of recent topics shows, choosing one board or all boards of the site, the Board page URL that turns titles into deep links, the Maximum items slider, the Show board name switch, why the web part hides itself when there are no topics, and how to use it on a home page or in Teams.
Starting a Topic: Discussions and Questions
How to start a new topic on a Vitextra Discussions board in SharePoint Online or Microsoft Teams: the New topic form with title, type, category, rich text body and attachments; the difference between a discussion and a question; what happens after you click Post, including automatic following and boards that require moderator approval, and how to edit or delete your topic afterwards.