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Password Vault. Solution Overview

Overview of the Vitextra Password Vault web part for SharePoint Online and Microsoft Teams: a personal password manager with a 4-digit PIN, entries stored encrypted in the user's own OneDrive, password generator, strength meter, folders, tags, favorites, search, automatic lock, Teams tab and personal app, permissions and requirements.

11/2/2026 Līga Ozola 37

Theming: How Discussions Follows Your Site Theme and Fonts

Reference on the look of the Vitextra Discussions and Discussions Activity web parts: how the SharePoint site theme is copied into CSS variables on the web part, which theme slots colour text, links, buttons, dividers and badges, section backgrounds and full-width sections, the site font, the Microsoft Teams Default and Dark themes, right-to-left languages, the languages of the interface and what cannot be customised.

11/2/2026 Lidija Reising 28

Troubleshooting the Classic Board Import

Troubleshooting guide for the classic Discussion Board importer of Vitextra Discussions: the Import classic board button is missing, no classic boards are found on the site, errors when loading boards from another site, a slow or failing dry run, the warnings Author and dates could not be restored, Reply skipped: its topic was not imported and attachment errors, flat reply trees, duplicates after a second import, an interrupted run and Community Site boards - with the cause and the fix for each.

11/2/2026 Lidija Reising 35

Views, Paging, Search and Counters: Display Settings of the Discussions Web Part

How to tune what readers see in the Vitextra Discussions web part: the Default view (Recent, Unanswered, Answered, Featured, My topics), the Topics per page slider and the Load more button, the title search box, the category filter, the reply and view counters and the web part title. Where each setting lives in the property pane, what it changes on the page, the defaults and recommended combinations for a Q&A forum, a community board and a small team board.

11/2/2026 Lidija Reising 29

What the Importer Copies and How It Rebuilds Reply Threads

Reference for the classic Discussion Board importer of Vitextra Discussions: the field-by-field mapping of classic topics and replies to the Discussions Topics and Discussions Posts columns, how the reply hierarchy is rebuilt from the classic Parent item references, what happens with flattened boards and orphan replies, how best answers, like counts and last activity are set, how authors and dates are restored, how attachments are copied, what is not copied, and how the Legacy id column makes a second run safe.

11/2/2026 Lidija Reising 38

Why a Post Is Not Visible: Approval, Rejection and Visibility Rules

Troubleshooting guide for topics and replies that are missing in Vitextra Discussions: the Require approval setting and the Awaiting approval badge, who sees pending and rejected items, how to approve or reject them in the Moderation queue, views that exclude a topic (Unanswered, Answered, Featured, My topics), category and search filters, paging, the Discussions Activity web part and list permissions.

11/2/2026 Lidija Reising 35

API Permissions and Admin Consent for Discussions

Reference for SharePoint administrators and security reviewers: the Vitextra Discussions package requests no Microsoft Graph or other API permissions, needs no admin consent and no Microsoft Entra app registration, and works entirely through the SharePoint APIs (REST and CSOM) of SharePoint sites in the context of the signed-in user. What appears in the App Catalog and on the API access page, what the Teams app declares, what is sent to Vitextra, and where the e-mail permission of the optional Power Automate flow lives.

11/1/2026 Lidija Reising 24

Attaching Files to Topics and Replies

How to attach files to topics and replies in Vitextra Discussions: picking files before you post, adding and removing attachments on an existing post, who can manage them, where SharePoint stores them (list item attachments of Discussions Topics and Discussions Posts), file name rules and the difference between attachments and inline images.

11/1/2026 Lidija Reising 28

Creating Your First Board: Modes, Categories and Approval

How to create a board in the Vitextra Discussions web part: choose between the Discussions only, Questions and answers only and Discussions and questions modes, define categories one per line, require approval of new posts, and change these settings later in the Board settings panel.

11/1/2026 Lidija Reising 33

Discussions vs. the Classic SharePoint Discussion Board vs. Viva Engage vs. Teams Channels: Which to Choose

A practical comparison of the ways to run a forum in Microsoft 365: the classic SharePoint Discussion Board, Viva Engage communities, Microsoft Teams channels and the Vitextra Discussions web part - modern pages, permissions and guests, reply threads, best answer, notifications, moderation, compliance, availability by cloud and licensing, with guidance on when each one fits.

11/1/2026 Lidija Reising 37

Discussions: A Quick Guide for End Users

One-page guide for employees using the Vitextra Discussions board in SharePoint Online or Microsoft Teams: the topic list and its views (Recent, Unanswered, Answered, Featured, My topics), filtering by category and search, opening a topic, starting a new topic, replying, liking, following a board or a topic, and what your SharePoint permissions let you do.

11/1/2026 Lidija Reising 33