Yes I too have experienced what you are talking about. The thread starter works more like a folder with replies being placed inside sub-folders and so on. Another problem I have found is the Reply column for the view creates a button that does not work! Any ideas on how to solve these issues would be appreciated!

Cheers.

Hi Clarke,

           I am also facing the same problem. when we create a threaded view, the reply button in the view is not working.

Please give the exact solution for this.

Hope i am clear.

thanks,

Pallavi,

thanks for your reply .

can you please give me the java script u used for it.

Sure Thing.

function findWebPartBody(listTitle){
  var tds = document.getElementsByTagName('td');
  var webpartZone;
  var webpartRow;
  for(var j = 0; j < tds.length; j++){
    if(tds[j].title.toLowerCase().indexOf(listTitle.toLowerCase()) != -1){
      webpartZone = tds[j].parentNode.parentNode.parentNode.parentNode.parentNode.parentNode;    
      webpartRow = webpartZone.parentNode.parentNode.parentNode;
    } 
  }
  if(webpartZone){
    var bodyDiv = webpartZone.children[1].children[0].children[0];
    return bodyDiv;
  }
}

function CorrectDiscussionBoardLinks(ListName, target){
  var webPart = findWebPartBody(ListName);
  var hyperLinks = webPart.getElementsByTagName("a");
  for(var k = 0; k < hyperLinks.length; k++){
    hyperLinks[k].href = hyperLinks[k].href.replace('default.aspx', 'Lists/Discussion%20Board/Flat.aspx');
  }
}

This Script would be for the default.aspx if you have a discussion board webpart on there that is failing...  otherwise adjust the links to what you need in the replace method of the CorrectDiscussionBoardLinks function.  Good luck in the world of sharepoint.

Thanks clarke for the code.

Hi....

I am having a problem when i am customizing the sharepoint site.

The Attach File is not working in the Events Newform.aspx , it is giving an error messagea as:

This Form was customized not working with attachment.

Hope i am clear.

Thanks,

Pallavi.

I was having the weird issue where when I clicked on the items it would show "no items to show" about 8 times".  

Just deleting the web part and re adding took care of it, as suggested above.

Hi...

      I have new issue in sharepoint.. i hope u can solve it.

In sharepoint discussion boards when deleting the question it is giving an error.

when we select a question and give reply... in that page i am selecting view properties and in the i am clicking delete item. it is deleting the question but it is given an error......

Hope i am clear...

Thanks.

Pallavi.

Hi Pallavi,

Have you found the solution for your probem? I have the same problem when I delete an item. The error is "Cannot complete this action"

Thanks,

Hi JJNET and Pallavi,

I am also struggling with same problem. When I click Viewproperties-->Delete Item, it deletes the item but does not redirect back and throws error.

I guess this is because we have deleted the item folder from list and if you see in query string it is incomplete and sharepoint does not know where to go back. Thus it throws error.

But I have no idea if we can change redirect code of DeleItem link in sharepoint toolbar.

Anybody...plz help.

i want to know how to use the Discussion Board  webpart that i created  can be used in  my portal site.And i want to customize as per the client Requirement.

I used this discussion board too, and allthe bugs happend to me.

Now i  need to configure alternated views using two discusion board webparts, one with discussion view and other using the message view.  My problem is: when i try to connect both webparts don't have anyfield into the message view to connect with the discussion view. I try making other views but no one solve my problem.

Any suggestion?

Regards and thanks for your help.

Alejandro

Hey... do any one of you know what eventhandler shoud we use to tackle the event when the user replies a topic.

Thanks in advance.

Ross

I believe I figured out a solution of the original poster here, that was clicking the Subject in a Discussion list results in a "folder" subject view instead of the threaded or flat view, which is the desired default behavior.

What I determined is that when you mess with Discussion views (create new or edit existing, either from SP itself or SPD 2007), SharePoint is making changes in the SETTINGS - Discussion Board Settings - VIEWS - SHOW IN - column for views that it should not be.

When clicking the SUBJECT links in the discussion list, the SUBJECT VIEW - Show In - needs be set to "TOP-Level".  If it is not, you will get the weird folder type view instead of the flat or threaded type view.

I made changes to views, but NEVER touched the default SUBJECT view.

To fix, click the SUBJECT view to edit the view, go to FOLDERS at the bottom, expand it and select "IN THE TOP-LEVEL FOLDER", click OK.

This fixes the bad behavior.

When editing views, SharePoint is messing with the show-in's and the default view behavior changes without the user knowing it!

Someone needs to report this to MS.

Hope this helps,

Mark

Mark P - Thank you!   I've been going mad trying to fix this.  

I know this thread is old, but I am hoping someone will see this!

I am facing the same problem, but Mark's solution won't help, because I do not have "Folders" when I edit views. My discussion board is a series item on a meeting workspace. I am worried that this is part of the problem. When I look at settings, I can see that subject is the default for the top-level view, and flat is the default for the discussion view. I would like to change the discussion view default to threaded, but each time I enact that change, it becomes the SOLE default for the site.

I want to set separate defaults for each level of the discussion, but I do not have the folders option available to me. What should I do?