Creating and tracking a discussion item

The SharePoint 2010 Team Site contains a Team Discussions forum. This recipe shows you how to add a discussion item to the forum and be automatically notified when your colleagues reply.

Getting ready

This recipe works for:

• SharePoint 2010 Foundation

• SharePoint 2010 Standard Edition

• SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Edition

• Office 365 (SharePoint Online)

You will need the Contribute permission level to run this recipe. Normally this will mean that you are a member of the site member's group.

You will need a SharePoint 2010 Team Site or any other SharePoint site to which a Discussion Board has been added.

How to do it...

1. Open your Team Site. Select the Team Discussion link from the quick-launch menu.

2. The list of current discussions is displayed. Click on the Add new discussion link.

   

3. In the Team Discussions—New Item dialog box, enter the Subject and the Body for the discussion item that you want to create.

4. Click on Save.

   

   The new discussion item will appear in the current...