Author: Tobias Zimmergren
http://www.zimmergren.net | http://www.tozit.com | @zimmergren
Introduction
I started a project about 2 years ago with the aim of improving the discussion functionalities that comes out of the box with WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007. Since it was a spare-time project back then, I didn't really have enough time to finish it off.
The last couple of months though, I've been working very hard to get this ship floating again and I am proud to say that we're finally releasing version 1.0 of the TOZIT SharePoint Discussion Forum solution to the market.
Visit www.tozit.com/products.aspx for more information!
What is it?
The TOZIT SharePoint Discussion Forum solution is a product, or set of products, that makes the discussions in SharePoint become very intuitive and user friendly. It also adds on a bunch of features that doesn't normally exist in SharePoint's built-in discussion lists. Here's a few highlighted features:
- Discussion Forum Grouping
- Flagging posts
- Answers
- Helpful posts
- Abusive posts
- Enhanced RSS Subscriptions
- Subscribe to new threads in a specific forum
- Subscribe to new posts in a specific thread
- Enhanced Rich Text Editor with very rich formatting options and ability to paste in word-documents or Visual Studio highlighted code, and keep the formatting!
- Ranking system
- Top posters
- By points
- By posts
- By most answers
- By most helpful posts
- Recent posts Web Part
- Relative time-stamping
- Displays "1 hour 32 minutes ago" to make it more intuitive
- Adjusts colors and fonts to your current SharePoint theme.
- … … …
Some screenshots of the discussion forum in action
How do we get it?
By navigating to www.tozit.com/products.aspx you can get more information.
You can either get a 30-day free, fully functional trial version, or purchase the retail version from our web site.
Early-bird discounts & Volume discounts
Early Bird
By reading this blog, you're up for early-bird discounts. If you or any of your clients purchase this product before the end of September, you can use the following discount code in order to get it 15% cheaper than the original price:
| Coupon code: | SharePointBird |
Volume discount
If you purchase more than one license (one required per front-end machine in your farm), you'll of course receive a volume discount. The table looks like this:
| 1 license | no discount |
| 2-4 licenses | 10% discount |
| 5-9 licenses | 20% discount |
| 10+ licenses | 30% discount |
Future versions?
We're currently working on future version of this product with more brilliant features and functionality to help you manage your discussions in your SharePoint installations!
Enjoy!