Lightning Storm Forums Web Part for SharePoint

Product info:
Developer: Lightning Tools
Designed for: MOSS 2007, WSS 3.0
License: Per server

Lightning Storm Forums Web Part for SharePointThe Lightning Storm Forums for SharePoint are designed and built to be an alternative to the Discussion Boards that come with SharePoint 2007 - it has been built to feel more like the standard forums everybody is use to.

Features:

  • Standard web forum look and feel
  • User security driven by standard SharePoint groups
  • Look and feel driven by SharePoint CSS and Themes
  • Rating of topics
  • Marking posts as answered
  • Administration ability to remove/edit topics and posts
  • Link/Picture from SharePoint Profile/My Site
  • RSS feeds for individual topics and forums


How do they work?
The Lightning Storm Forums are themselves web parts that can be simply added to any SharePoint Web Part page. The post information is being stored within SharePoint lists so no external configuration with SQL Server databases is required. The web parts are using the .NET framework 3.5 so this is required to be installed on your SharePoint Servers.