SharePoint Discussion Column

• Record discussions without creating new versions.
• Empty records are auto filtered out.
• Display discussions in all item pages.

SharePoint Discussion Column is a custom column that records user discussions when editing items. The SharePoint discussion thread can be listed in chronological order with discussion contents and users names. With SharePoint Discussion Column, you don’t have to choose to create a new version each time you select the Append Changes to Existing Text option of your Rich text column.

Why was it Built?

SharePoint out-of-box Multiple lines of text column provides an option "Append Changes to Existing Text" to let users append their own comments and discussion without replacing others. But it has two defects:

First, you must enable version creation when item edited, but it's troublesome when you don't want to create new version every time you append changes.

Second, every time you edit the item, a new record will be produced in the record history whether empty or not. It is inconvenient for users to view a lot of records with empty contents.

SharePoint Discussion Column was developed to solve these problems. When you append records to SharePoint discussion thread, with the SharePoint Discussion Column, new versions will not appear and empty records will not display.