Using Social Squared Web Parts

Social Squared provides four Web Parts, that can be added to any SharePoint® page, including wiki, Web Part or publishing pages, using the browser. Each Web Part has a number of properties specific to Social Squared plus the common Web Part properties, which can be configured.

• Social Squared Forums. This is the main Social Squared Web Part, that allows users to use Social Squared. Once you have created a forum, within a forum group, you should add this to a page, so that topics and posts can be created, and users can reply, identify posts as answers and vote on posts. This web part also displays two tabs to the top far right:
  
  
  • Chat. This can be used to show or hide the chat pane, allowing users to chat to each other. This tab is only displayed if Chat is set to true on the Forum Settings page.
    
    
  • Forum Tools. When a user hovers their mouse over this tab, they are provided with links to edit their profile, view email subscriptions, and to see followers.
    
    
• Social Squared Forums Active Users. Use this Web Part to display the 10 most active users over the past 30 days. Use this Web Part to encourage forum participation.
  
  
  
  This Web Part caches the results for 60 minutes to help with performance, and displays the top 10 people who’ve made the most posts across all the forums over the last 30 days. By editing the web part properties, you can show and hide forum groups. Otherwise, a user may show as most active, even if they do not participate within the forums on the current page.
  
  
• Social Squared Forums Popular Topics. Use this Web Part to display the most popular topics from the forum groups selected in the Web Parts tool pane. Users of the forums are able to view comments on a topic by hovering over a user’s image.
  
  
  
  
• Social Squared Forums Tagging. Use this Web Part to display a visual depiction of the tags used in topics and posts, where the font size of the words that make up a tag name becomes larger as the frequency of that tag increases. Such a visual display is often known as a tag cloud.
  
  
  
  By default tagging is deactivated, therefore first activate tagging using the Forum Settings page, before using this Web Part.
  

Adding a Social Squared Web Part to a page →
Configuring Social Squared Web Parts →