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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Using @Mentions in Discussions

How @mentions work in Vitextra Discussions: typing @ and picking a person, keyboard navigation in the suggestion list, how a mention looks in the post, who can be mentioned, where the mention is stored (the Mentions column) and how it turns into an email notification through the Power Automate flow.

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Where Discussions Stores Your Data: Lists, Columns and Privacy

Reference for administrators and security officers on the Vitextra Discussions web part for SharePoint Online and Microsoft Teams: the four lists and the document library the web part creates on the site, how the lists are recognised by column ids so they can be renamed, which columns hold topics, replies, mentions, likes and subscriptions, where attachments and inline images are stored, what is kept in the web part properties, the identity used for every call, what is sent to Vitextra and what happens to the data when the web part or the package is removed.

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Comments, @Mentions and Deep Links in Questions and Answers

Reference for the collaboration features of the Vitextra Questions and Answers web part: comments on questions as standard SharePoint list comments, the comment counter and the folding of long discussions, @mentions shown as live profile cards, who can comment and how to turn commenting off, and deep links - the Copy Link button, the ?questionId=N address, how the linked question is opened, highlighted and fetched, and how to use links in support work.

10/31/2026 Lidija Reising 38

How to Add RSS Reader to Microsoft Teams

Step-by-step guide to using the Vitextra RSS Reader in Microsoft Teams: publishing the app from the SharePoint App Catalog, adding it as a tab in a channel with its own feeds, adding it as a personal app, saving the default configuration that the personal app uses for everybody, pinning it with an app setup policy, and what to check if the feeds do not appear.

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How to Build an Internal FAQ Page for Your Intranet with Questions and Answers

A step-by-step scenario for an intranet help center built with the Vitextra Questions and Answers web part: planning the categories and owners, creating the page and the list, loading the first questions from an Excel sheet, configuring permissions and understanding the limits of publication control, configuring search, categories and paging, adding the page to Microsoft Teams, promoting it with deep links and keeping it alive with a review routine.

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Organizing Questions: Categories, Grouping, Category Filter, Sorting and Collapsing

How to structure a Vitextra Questions and Answers knowledge base: defining categories in the Category choice column, grouping questions under category headers, turning on the category filter tabs, sorting by name, question order or creation date in either direction, collapsing or expanding answers by default, and which combination suits small, medium and large knowledge bases.

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Permissions, Data Storage and Privacy in Questions and Answers

Reference for administrators and security officers on the Vitextra Questions and Answers web part: no API permissions, every call made as the signed-in user, the SharePoint list that holds questions, answers, attachments and comments, which SharePoint permission levels readers, askers and editors need, the limits of item-level permissions and publication control, what is not indexed by search, what the web part sends to Vitextra, third-party video embeds, retention and reporting with Excel and Power BI.

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