Alternative to Discussion list in SharePoint Online
In SharePoint Online one of the most missed features from the legacy system is the ability to create discussion forums. Since we do not have the OOB functionality, but we still can achieve it using the OOB features. In this post, I will show you how you can create the discussion forums using OOB features and with a more attractive UI. Let's start and set up the discussion Forum. STEP 1: Create necessary columns in Site Pages Library To Achieve the functionality, I have made use of the "Site Pages" Library as it gives you the OOB ability to comment and like on the page. In order to make it fully usable, we will create a column PageType: This will tell us whether the page created is a discussion or the page Values: Page, Discussion STEP 2: Create Custom View Create a View (in my case I have created the view by the name Discussion), ...