Quest Discussion  View (qDiscussionView)

The qDiscussionView web part displays data from a SharePoint Discussion list type.  The display, by default, provides a 2-panel output: one for the overall hierarchical discussion structure, and one for a detail display of whatever discussion node is currently highlighted.  From the detail pane one can Edit (if one is the author) the item or reply to it, thus extending the discussion thread.

Replying, by default invokes the SharePoint standard reply form.  However, the qDiscussionView web part can be configured to intercept the reply mechanism to invoke a custom reply form instead. The custom form, an aspx page, would contain a qListForm web part to be used to receive the text of the reply thread.  If the reply page were a custom page, it could contain other web parts displaying associated data.

As with the qSelector and qListView web parts, the qDiscussionView can be used to roll-up data from multiple lists.  As long as the columns being referenced or displayed are the same in all lists sourced, the qDiscussionView will display it correctly.  An example of how this can be used is with discussion threads related only to a restricted audience.  One could create a discussion list with restricted access and roll that up with other discussion lists in the qDiscussionView .  Only those eligible to view the restricted data will see the restricted threads when the qDiscussionView web part is displayed.