Limited selection of Discussion Boards

I have been trying to ask a question about Multisim but when I try to select a board, I am only allowed to choose from the boards listed. If I choose "More", a Board Selector is displayed and I can select one of those but then I am taken right back to the post message page with no board selected.
I have tried with both pop-ups on and off. I am using IE7
Are there any other settings that could be wrong?

Please stick to the original post rather than splitting the discussion over two threads, so everything is kept in one place. Thanks.

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"One or more field types are not installed properly" when I try to add a second discussion board web part to a page

I have a SharePoint 2010 site with two discussion boards. I added one additional field to each of the boards: a lookup to another list to link the discussions to individual projects. I need 2 different boards because they have different posting permissions
(one is open to all for comments, and one is open only to the project team to post but everyone can read).
When I go to the pages for each of the discussion boards, they work fine.
But I'm putting together a page for individual projects, and want to have web parts for both discussion boards on the same page, showing the discussions related to the selected project.
I am able to add one of the discussion boards to a web part in the page, but when I add the second discussion board to the page, the new web part contains:
One or more field types are not installed properly. Go to the list settings page to delete these fields.
Correlation ID: blah blah blah
I've searched for similar postings, but mostly I see this error message related to migration from 2007 to 2010 -- this is not the case here: I created both discussion boards, and the whole site, in SP 2010. I've also found this message related
to coding errors using SPQuery. I am not doing any coding here, just using the built-in SharePoint 2010 Edit Page -> add a web part -> select the discussion list. I tried doing it from SPD with the same result.

I figured it out. I was using ?FilterField1=fieldname&FilterValue1=value on the URL to the page to pick out one project number. The web part I was trying to add was for a list that did not have that particular fieldname. I didn't realize that would matter
since I was using the Connections -> Get Filter Values From to get my filter values from the main web part, which does have that fieldname.
I added a field with that fieldname to the other list and set a workflow to copy the lookup value of the project number lookup field into the new field. Now all is working fine. Sorry for the wild geese in my original question.

Importing to Discussion Board Post from legacy source

Hi All,
Im sure im not the first to wonder or ask this question but here it goes.
We have recently moved out intranet to SharePoint 2013. We have rebuilt from the ground up using many of the out of box solutions as well as some third party apps and web parts however these is one aspect that is stumping us.
On our old intranet we use a SQL based forum/discussion board package which has
about ten years worth of posts, surveys, Q&As etc. As it is SQL based it is very easy for use to query and pull this legacy data however
we cannot find a way to import into SharePoint. We do not expect to import it all but would like to import at leas the last 12 months of submitted
data with at least basic fields like Title, description/content, tags, post date and post user. We do not mind other metadata being striped out like voting etc.
We have dug deep into the SharePoint database files to see if we can directly insert but
it is very complex and almost certainly not supported. We was also hoping for a discussion board data list view so we could bulk cut and paste. This is not ideal but would at least be a better option than manually inserting each post.
Does anybody have an idea where to start if at all possible.
Mark

Won't keep me logged in,
This is a server problem. In other words, "don't adjust your dial!"
spinning balls,
All this means is that the rendering is slowed down by something in the design of the website. If it is a thread with over 500 posts, you probably will have difficulty viewing it, unless you have a high speed internet connection with low latency, enough hard disk space to cache the files, and/or view threads in tree mode. To use Tree mode, go to My Settings, and select Tree View under Topic Page View in the General SEttings.
Bad Request
Sometimes will happen if your internet service provider is behind a backbone with significant peering issues.
So how big is your hard drive?
How much free disk space is there?
Have you tried to empty the browser cache?
Does this issue happen with short threads as well as long ones?
Do you have any system modification software such as Speed Download, PthHelmet, or other browser enhancement software?
Are you sure all your software is known to be Snow Leopard compatible?
See these two pages about compatibility:
http://snowleopard.wikidot.com/
http://www.macintouch.com/specialreports/snowleopard/slcompat.html

Unable to Customize SharePoint 2013 Discussion Board

Hi,
We are trying to customize SharePoint 2013 Discussion Board app and are unable to modify existing Flat, Subject, and Threaded views or create new views. Following are the error messages we are getting:
*** Error message when creating new views based on view types Subject, Flat, or Threaded:
TypeError: Unable to get value of the property '0': object is null or undefined
Note that when creating the view no options are available (only option to name and make default are available). The view created after display of this error message does not have any Columns, Sort, Filter or
other properties defined. Manually defining these properties does not make the view function as desired (Flat view is not flat).
*** Error message when editing existing default views Subject, Flat, or Threaded:
Cannot complete this action.
Please try again.
Troubleshoot issues with Microsoft SharePoint Foundation.
Note that this is nothing to troubleshoot or error number provided. The URL shows /_vti_bin/owssvr.dll?CS=65001. Also, the edit screen does not show any view property to change.
Note that both ability to edit existing views and create new views work in SharePoint 2010. This issue is with SharePoint 2013. Please guide to resolve this. View in other apps can be edited.
This issue is only with the Discussion Board app.
-Thanks, Maqsood.

You will not be able to modify the default view in SharePoint 2013 i.e. Subject/Flat or threaded. However you can create a new view based on your requirement and use it.
When you try to create new view, the fields will not be available for you to select during creation of view, instead create a view with proper name, once the view is created, go back for modifying the new view and you will have the fields available for selection.
Note: Make sure you have mandatory CU installed on the farm.
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How to find sum of Discussions Initiated by a user in Discussion Board List

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I am working on SharePoint Online.
We have used Discussion Board List for discussions on our site. In that list permitted users can initiate as many discussions as they want.
My question is: In SP ONLINE, Can we come to know sum of how many discussions have been initiated by different users OOB or by using calculated column or by any other means without custom code.
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And User Y
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Y                                       1
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Hi vikrant,
According to your description, my understanding is that you want to display the sum of the discussions that a user created in SharePoint Online.
There is an OOB view ‘Management’, it displays all discussions that all users created. You can group by the view using ‘Created By’, then it will display the sum of discussions that a user created.
You can do as: click List->Current View, switch current view to Management view, then click ‘Modify View’. Scroll to ‘Group By’ section and expand it, under ‘First group by the column’, select ‘Created By’, click OK.
The result is like:
I hope this helps.
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How do I get refund for App not performing well? Report problem link takes me to these discussion boards

I downloaded this App for ringtones (Ringtones 500.000) , purchased a full version of it, so I should be able to download unlimited number of ringtones. The problem is, it won't let me download any ringtones after 10, which is how free version of this App performs.
I have contacted developers, but they keep sending the instruction book to me with step-by-step inforamtion, which is out of date itself, but that is not a problem, I think in my case.
When I try to report a problem to Apple , using hte link on my receipt, it just takes me to a page with discussion boards and FAQ.
I would like to get $1.99 back instead of troubleshoot this any longer, because it seems App help support people are not understanding the problem.
I did try re-loading the App -didn't help either.
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Welcome to the Apple Community.
Apple's policy on sales of digital content is that all sales are final. If however you wish to appeal to Apple, select the content which is causing a problem and use the 'Report a problem' button in Your Purchase History on your computer.
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How to link Discussion Board with Custom list in sharepoint 2013

I have a custom list, which have collection of goals. and i have an discussion board for discussions about those goals from that custom
list... so how can i link between those two. what my expectation is, if I select a "goal" from custom list, then the collection of discussions that related to goals will displays on other side... and i have added a lookup column in discussion
board that refer the goal name in the custom list so i am relating goal name between these two.

Hi VinoJash,
According to your description, my understanding is that you want to click the ‘discuss’ column in the custom list to navigate to the associated discusstion. Is it right?
You can do as the followings:
Open your custom list
Create a new column, the type is Hyperlink or Picture, select Format URL as: Hyperlink
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Click Save
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If I click ‘first discussion’, it will open the ‘first’ discussion.
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Access Denied Error on replying to a discussion board Post using anonymous access in sharepoint 2013 .

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We are facing issue while replying to a post in Discussion board using Anonymous access users in Sharepoint 2013.
WE are able to post a discussion using anonymous acess but not able to reply to the discussion post.
Steps Performed - :
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2. In SiteCollection > Site Permissions > Anonymous Acess > Enable for List and Libraries .
3. Disable ViewFormPAgeLock Feature .
4 .Go to Discussion board List >Permissions > Break Inheritence .
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Please suggest if we are missing soming .Please help
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Hi,
According to your post, my understanding is that when you went to the Discussion List and selected the thread then view the list in “Flat” view, the Spelling ICON was greyed out.
By design in SharePoint, when you view the list in “Flat” view, the ribbon would be as below:
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Export data from SP Discussion board

Hi I would like to export data (topics and replies) from sharepoint discussion board to either excel or any other
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Thanks

Hi,
You can use the existed function in SharePoint to help you to export：
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》select “link to the data on the SharePoint site” > ok > export the data using the access function external data > export > excel (access 2007).
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Custom View of Discussion Board

I have a OOTB discussion board to which I have added some custom properties (Group and Category).
I want to create a custom view of the discussion board that only shows conversations with a specific Group value. This works fine; however, when I click the title of the conversation, nothing is displayed (There are no items to show in this view...).
Do I need two separate views for this? It seems like I need a top-level Subject view and then a secondary Threaded view to show the conversation maybe? I wasn't able to find instructions for doing this anywhere.
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Hi Chad,
According to your description, my understanding is that the discussion board Subject field URL link is not working in the custom view.
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<a href="{@FileRef}">
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http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/sharepoint/en-US/c6e299db-ac02-4ad4-b21e-4aa0650cd129/sharepoint-discussion-board-subject-url-link?forum=sharepointgenerallegacy
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Dreamweaver Discussion Board

I'm a newbie to Flash and Dreamweaver and I am currently
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User name display in Discussion Board - SharePoint 2013 (Office 365)

Hi,
I would like to hide the display of user name of "Created by" and "Replied By" in discussion board.
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Get collaboration content (Discussion Board, Blog Posts, Wikki) last view time in SharePoint 2013

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Hi Patil,
According to your description, my understanding is that you want to get the last view time of any entities in SharePoint 2013
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Below are my testing:
Click Settings->Site Settings
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Through checking the second worksheet, we can see which items were viewed and the viewed time. Please have a try.
I hope this helps.
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Wendy
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Hello, I am setting up a discussion board in my intranet homepage, so all users can see all discussions. so far so good. But now i wanted to be able to make new discussions but with the option to invite some ppl and that discussion would only be avaiable
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Create a Discussion Board, add a People Picker column and call it Contributors, make it a multiple select people picker and a required field. Now build a workflow that runs when a new item is created that is an impersonisation step workflow that
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http://sergioblogs.blog.co.uk/
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Firefox updated to latest version, now I can not enter data in a discussion board dialog box in Blackboard. IE8 had same problem, change to compatability mode and IE functions. Any fix for firefox?

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Try to disable hardware acceleration in Firefox.
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*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Troubleshooting+extensions+and+themes

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