TOZIT SharePoint Discussion Forum solution for WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 released today!

Author: Tobias Zimmergren
http://www.zimmergren.net | http://www.tozit.com | @zimmergren

Introduction

I started a project about 2 years ago with the aim of improving the discussion functionalities that comes out of the box with WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007. Since it was a spare-time project back then, I didn’t really have enough time to finish it off.

The last couple of months though, I’ve been working very hard to get this ship floating again and I am proud to say that we’re finally releasing version 1.0 of the TOZIT SharePoint Discussion Forum solution to the market.

Visit www.tozit.com/products.aspx for more information!

What is it?

The TOZIT SharePoint Discussion Forum solution is a product, or set of products, that makes the discussions in SharePoint become very intuitive and user friendly. It also adds on a bunch of features that doesn’t normally exist in SharePoint’s built-in discussion lists. Here’s a few highlighted features:

• Discussion Forum Grouping
• Flagging posts
  • Answers
  • Helpful posts
  • Abusive posts
• Enhanced RSS Subscriptions
  • Subscribe to new threads in a specific forum
  • Subscribe to new posts in a specific thread
• Enhanced Rich Text Editor with very rich formatting options and ability to paste in word-documents or Visual Studio highlighted code, and keep the formatting!
• Ranking system
  • Top posters
    • By points
    • By posts
    • By most answers
    • By most helpful posts
• Recent posts Web Part
• Relative time-stamping
  • Displays "1 hour 32 minutes ago" to make it more intuitive
• Adjusts colors and fonts to your current SharePoint theme.
• … … …

Some screenshots of the discussion forum in action

How do we get it?

By navigating to www.tozit.com/products.aspx you can get more information.

You can either get a 30-day free, fully functional trial version, or purchase the retail version from our web site.

Early-bird discounts & Volume discounts

Early Bird

By reading this blog, you’re up for early-bird discounts. If you or any of your clients purchase this product before the end of September, you can use the following discount code in order to get it 15% cheaper than the original price:

Volume discount

If you purchase more than one license (one required per front-end machine in your farm), you’ll of course receive a volume discount. The table looks like this:

Future versions?

We’re currently working on future version of this product with more brilliant features and functionality to help you manage your discussions in your SharePoint installations!

Enjoy!