Paul Grenier, Lead Moderator
DominincDanson
Member
Hello clever, clever people.
I oversee a large company intranet that uses SharePoint, and am trying to find a way to make our commenting more efficient. I'd like to create a Facebook-style wall on our main news site, but can't seem to figure out how to get a posting box up (like on the default blog). Does anyone have any ideas on how I'd go about this?
Thank!
skillmaster
Member
there may be some Ajax features for this, thats what facebook uses i am sure.
we are to look in to this soon
DominincDanson
Member
Fantastic. Other than that I don't know Ajax. Any idea how the blog default box works? I can't seem to find anything on the net about it
skillmaster
Member
have you looked at the CKS:EBE Blog features. theres loads of new stuff in that. Extending the functionality of the built in blog features in sharepoint. its on codeplex i think
DominincDanson
Member
Sadly I can't install any new items. The only way I've managed to customise my CQWP is by creating a completely separate style library in a hidden site and telling the CQ to look at that one instead of the main library. It would be great to have some way of doing it by altering the OOTB features. (Such limitation is annoying me.) I thought that I could use a similar method to how blog comments works, but I just can't figure it out.
Domininc - Let's get a little more detail. What are you trying to accomplish? What is currently being used? What are your final expectations once the solution has been implemented?
There are several features such as a blog, a wiki or a discussion board, but then again, a customized list might actually be the way to go.
Let's have as much detail as possible and then we'll look at the potential solutions.
Mark
DominincDanson
Member
I'd like to be able to create a discussion board like the group wall in Facebook. I don't really like the way SharePoint's discussion boards work, and I'd like to have it shown on our news site. It would be great if I could implement something that would show the five (for example) most recent posts to a comments board and have a text box below for entering a submission to the board without having to go to the list.
I think a custom list with Author, Created and Comment field would be all that I need and I can aggregate that content to the site using a modified content query. It's the text box that has me stumped.
Does that make sense, or am I being stupidly vague? (Oh, and thanks for your help, most appreciated!)
If you use a DVWP, you can make a data form action button (go) that submits the text box contents to the list (created just like workflow). Otherwise, I'd look at the JS API to submit the comment via web services.
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