Building forum with portal8i

Question

hi,
i'm asking if there is a possibility to devellop a forum (discusion group) with portal8i for our site(develloped with portal8i).
how should i proceed?

Answer 1

Depending on how complex you want the forum, there are a variety of options. Firstly, there a few people who have written pl/sql discussion forum portlets. You should be able to search this forum and find the appropriate people.
Secondly, I am sure I read somewhere that the PDK will contain a discussion forum soon.
Finally, create your own using Application components (forms and reports). If you only need something simple this is the best way of doing it.
You can quickly knock something up using a simple schema like:
Threads table:
thread_id
submission_date
user_id
subject
body
Responses table:
thread_id (foreign key)
response_date
body
user_id
null