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craigmoliver
craigmoliver

Reputation: 6562

Stackoverflow-like questions/answer functionality for Sharepoint

Does anyone know of a solution that provides functionality to Microsoft Sharepoint that offers Stackoverflow like functionality?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1262

Answers (5)

Gerard Yin
Gerard Yin

Reputation: 1313

There are some elements of answers on the Sharepoint stack exchange:

(Original link: https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/20321/sharepoint-qa-tool-like-stack-exchange)

Technically speaking, Sharepoint may not be the most optimal platform to do this. However, if your entreprise architecture already has the framework, and your users know the platform, it is not completely irrelevant to try that way. Some benefits I see:

  • Benefits from the standard Sharepoint search results
  • Easier to get employees opt-in

Upvotes: 0

Alex Angas
Alex Angas

Reputation: 60037

There is the Idea Center feature in Newsgator Social Sites, check the screenshot. I haven't used this although our company is trialling this product so I hope to have a look at it soon.

The downsides are that this is part of a much bigger (albeit pretty cool) product and isn't free.

Upvotes: 0

Pauk
Pauk

Reputation: 2631

You could look at using StackExchange (either hosted or local for a price!) when it becomes available in September(ish), but that is probably overkill.

Upvotes: 0

Andrew Lewis
Andrew Lewis

Reputation: 5256

Any SharePoint functionality that did with would most likely be completely custom ASP.NET pages that would run just as well as a stand-alone product.

Rather than looking for a SharePoint-specific product, look for one that works well with the general microsoft stack, and you should be able to integrate it fairly well with whatever SharePoint site you're running.

Upvotes: 2

Matthew Jones
Matthew Jones

Reputation: 26190

I would really recommend not using SharePoint for this kind of feature. SharePoint is great at what it does (document management, collaboration, etc) but absolutely terrible at everything else.

Are you forced to develop for SharePoint, or can you just do it in ASP.NET/C#?

Upvotes: 3

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