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Working with Office Web Discussions Client

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You use the Microsoft Office Web Discussions Client object library to work with discussion servers or discussions on a page programmatically. The Office Web Discussions Client object library contains objects, methods, and properties you can use to create and work with discussions on a page.

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  • The Office Web Discussions Client Object Model
    The object model is simple and straightforward, and the methods and properties of the objects map directly to the objects and settings available from the Discussions toolbar.
  • Enabling Discussions
    When you install Microsoft® Office XP, the Discuss command is added to the Explorer Bar submenu of the View menu in Microsoft® Internet Explorer 5 or later.
  • Understanding the Global Object
    The Global object is the top-level object in the Office Web Discussions Client object model, and, therefore, it is not necessary to reference the Global object explicitly when you are using its methods or properties.
  • Understanding Discussion Servers
    The DiscussionServers collection contains all the DiscussionServer objects that represent each discussion server registered on your computer.
  • Understanding Discussions
    The Discussions collection contains all the Discussion objects associated with each level of discussion on a page.
  • Understanding Subscriptions
    You use subscriptions to specify the time and type of notification to send when changes occur to the discussions in a document or to any document within a specified folder.
  • Using Web Technologies with Office XP
    The Web technologies integrated into Microsoft® Office XP give you a host of new features you can use to create custom applications that take full advantage of Web-based information sharing and collaboration.
  • Understanding DHTML, Cascading Style Sheets, and Scripting
    DHTML, through the document object model, provides an application programming interface (API) for working with HTML elements and cascading style sheet information.
  • Working with the Office Web Components
    Microsoft® Office XP applications support HTML code as a native file format, making all Office documents "Web-ready" by default. Publishing an Office document to the Web is now as easy as saving a file to your computer's hard disk.
  • Working with the Exchange Web Store
    Web Store is a database technology that you can use to store, share, and manage heterogeneous data, such as e-mail messages, Web pages, multimedia files, and Microsoft® Office documents.
  • Working with Data Access Pages
    Data access pages make it possible for you to create data entry pages as HTML forms in Microsoft® Access and publish them to a Web site. For example, data access pages can be used in workflow applications to make it possible for users to view and update data directly in the database.
  • Working with Smart Tags
    Using Smart Tags, you can automate user interaction with text in a document based on the value of the text string. For example, the name of an employee can be automated to provide a menu list that makes it possible for a user to compose an e-mail message to that person, display an organization chart showing that person, or link to the employee's Web page.