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158 Domino.Doc 3.5 User’s Guide
Using the Discussion Forum feature
You can use the Forum feature to initiate a discussion forum around a
document, or to add a topic to an existing discussion thread, and to read the
discussion documents that have evolved. The visibility of topics and
responses is limited to the user’s access to the related document. For
example, if only Draft Editors have access to a document, you will not see
the discussion unless you have Draft Editor status.
Navigating the Discussion thread
With a discussion forum open, you can view the entire discussion thread on
a document. It allows you to view all main topics and responses, insofar as
your user security level allows. A navigation display is included for every
main topic and response. This display shows a maximum of 21 documents
at a time, arranged in a topic-and-response hierarchy, with the current
document approximately in the center. (Its position depends on how close
the current document is to the very beginning or very end of the thread.)
To navigate through the discussion:
• Use the scroll sliders or arrows to scroll through the entire thread. It
displays 21 documents at a time.
• Double-click any discussion document link to open the topic or
response document.
• Click the buttons on the toolbar as follows:
• Return to go back to the document view.
• New Main Topic to create a new topic in the thread.
• New Response to create a response to an existing topic or response.
• View Main Topics to open a pop-up window that shows links for all
main topics in the thread. Clicking a link in the pop-up window
displays the selected topic, or response, and closes the pop-up window.
• Delete to delete every discussion document in the thread, or just the
current document. Deleting the current document also deletes all of
its response documents.
Note Only managers of the related Domino.Doc document (Discussion
Document Managers) can use the delete option.
• Search to enter a search query to find a particular discussion
document in a thread. You can search for text only in the discussion
document’s subject field and the document content. Search results
display in a new page where you can either perform a new search, or
view the search results. Each search result is a link that you can click to
open the selected document.
• Refresh (circling arrows) to update the view.