Lightning Storm Forums for SharePoint
The Lightning Storm Forums are designed and built to be an alternative to the Discussion Boards that come with SharePoint 2007. Many people do not like the SharePoint Discussion Boards as they look and feel quite different to forums that are available on public internet sites.
It has been our aim to build the Lightning Storm Forums to feel more like the standard forums everybody is use to.
Download a Trial
Please click here to download a trial of the Lightning Storm Forums.
See them in Action
You can click here to see a screencast of the configuration steps and forums in action
Current Feature Set
Standard web forum look and feel
User security driven by standard SharePoint groups
Look and feel driven by SharePoint CSS and Themes
Rating of topics
Marking posts as answered
Administration ability to remove/edit topics and posts
Link/Picture from SharePoint Profile/My Site
RSS feeds for individual topics and forums
How do they work?
The Lightning Storm Forums are themselves web parts that can be simply added to any SharePoint Web Part page. The post information is being stored within SharePoint lists so no external configuration with SQL Server databases is required. The web parts are using the .NET framework 3.5 so this is required to be installed on your SharePoint Servers.
Purchase Details
The Lightning Storm Forums for SharePoint is available for only $600 per SharePoint Server. The purchase of the web part includes:
1, Free Technical Support on the provided Web Part solution
2, Free future updates
Please click here to purchase the Lightning Storm Forums