Adding an ad-hoc forum to a page

Ad-hoc forums are useful if you want to enable users to comment on pages or articles, but don’t want to create a forum for each page manually. In case you don’t need a structured forum, you can also consider using Message boards for this purpose.

You can create Ad-hoc forums by means of the Forum (Single forum - General) web part.

If you place the Forum (Single forum - General) web part to a page and set its Forum name property to ad-hoc forum (or ad_hoc_forum if you are using ASPX templates), the system displays the new forum on the website. However, the forum will actually be created only when a visitor adds the first post to the forum. After that, the system will add the forum to the AdHoc forum group available in the Forums application.

Ad-hoc forums are uniquely identified by the page they belong to.