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Can't see 'Attachment' option to a discussion in Discussion Board in SP 2013

I can't find a option in the ribbon for attaching a document/file to a discussion post in SharePoint 2013, either while creating a new discussion or Editing an existing one.

I know while we have focus on the Body field, we get multiple options like Upload file, Video and Audio and Picture... But all of them basically embed the files/documents into the body Rich-text. We can't view them as separate attachment files.

I have done a migration of Discussions from an external system to SharePoint 2013 using my custom tool. There i was able to attach documents(using Server side APIs) to discussions and those documents are viewed under Attachments field.(see the screenshot below)

Question : Is there some Configuration setting from UI or Powershell which enables the Attachment option on the ribbon ?

Enabling the Attachments option under the Advanced Settings doesn't help.

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Jamie McAllister

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martusha

Unfortunately, there is no option to attach file in SharePoint 2013 Discussion board as Jamie McAllister MVP wrote above.

A as a workaround you can add an attachment directly to Body field using option in Ribbon (Insert -> Upload file).
When uploading a file files will be stored in Site Assets library, however you can choose different place if you want.

Amit Tyagi

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So, when you say

As such, there's no way to enable attachments for Discussion board.

You mean from the UI because as i have seen and is evident from the screenshots i have attached, the option is still available. May not be from the UI. I was looking for some tweak, as we sometimes get, for enabling that in the UI.

martusha

Yes, but you need custom tool or custom coding for this