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Please Report Forums Issues - December 2003!

Kimberly Ann — Wed, 03 Dec 2003 16:40:38 GMT

Hi All,

Sorry for the late posting of December's thread!

Please continue reporting any issues you may encounter while using the forums. It helps us continue to improve upon your forums experience!

Please include URLs from your browser associated with error messages, and please include the date and time the errors occur.

You can also post your forums **successes** for December at:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=291127

Thanks for your previous feedback!

Best regards,
Dan

Re: Please Report Forums Issues - December 2003!

Sanjay_6 — Wed, 03 Dec 2003 16:50:31 GMT

Hi Dan,

The search engine is kaput. I can't search anything, patch database or anything at all.

Thanks & Regards
Sanjay

Re: Please Report Forums Issues - December 2003!

Michael Tully — Wed, 03 Dec 2003 16:57:32 GMT

The search engine seems fine to me ....

Re: Please Report Forums Issues - December 2003!

John Poff — Wed, 03 Dec 2003 17:14:36 GMT

Hi Dan,

Just an idea, but maybe when you start the monthly issues thread you could post a list of the open issues that your developers are still working on. That might help cut down on some of the redundant posts about problems, and also prompt people to post issues that haven't been addressed.

Just a suggestion. Keep up the good work!

JP

Re: Please Report Forums Issues - December 2003!

Ricardo Bassoi — Wed, 03 Dec 2003 18:46:25 GMT

Hi Dan,

How are you ? I was out the HP Forums during my travel to Uganda-Africa but now IÂ´m back and I saw that following thread isnÂ´t working:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=291226

Regards,

Ric

Re: Please Report Forums Issues - December 2003!

Steven E. Protter — Wed, 03 Dec 2003 20:00:20 GMT

Search engine is not returning 10.20 manuals.

In addition, due to some sort of rearrangement, lots of links in older itrc posts don't work any more. This seems especially nasty with regards to technical knowledgebase articles.

When possible it would be a good idea to leave a transfer doc at the old url when they tidy things up.

SEP

Re: Please Report Forums Issues - December 2003!

Angus Crome — Thu, 04 Dec 2003 00:09:57 GMT

Dan, I have been getting intermitent Garbage at the top of my screens after a reply has been submitted. IE 5.5, 6.0 and Mozilla.

Re: Please Report Forums Issues - December 2003!

Pete Randall — Thu, 04 Dec 2003 06:42:13 GMT

Dan,

The monthly request list. Now sorted in priority order (my priority, anyway). Please note the items corrected i
n the Sept 20 update have been moved to a separate section at the end of the list for now so that we can all appr
eciate the efforts that you and the team put forth:

1) Recover the content lost during the 9/20/03 conversion/update - there are numerous threads which suffered par
tial content loss, Merijn's statistics postings being a prime example.

2) Fix the occasional (but all too frequent) "unavailable" and "404" errors which can make the forums unusable f
or hours at a time.

3) Create a new category under HP-UX for congratulations, humor and other miscellaneous off-topic threads so tha
t those who don't wish to view these items can bypass them.

4) Show the poster's name in the reply window.

5) Repeat the bread crumb navigation links at the bottom of the page so we don't have to page all the way up to
the top of long threads. Also, add the same links to the notification pages.

6) Pre-assign 0 points to all answers. This eliminates the whining about not assigning points and the obsessive
pursuit of 100% point assignment ratios. Alternatively, eliminate the tracking of points assignment ratios.

7) Could we possibly have a real, functional search engine? Please??

8) Could we have some sort of convergence between the US and European sites? They can't get to our URLs, we can
't get to theirs, Merijn gets the wrong search engine - why do they have to be separate and different?

9) Other forms of URLs need to be recognized (https, ftp) as the http ones are.

10) Allow for formatted text that does not lose spaces, so script snippets can be understood.

11) Provide the ability for a user to customize the forum subjects they view by setting up their own groupings (
like: all of HP-UX, plus Servers (9000), plus Workstations (hp-ux based), plus all of Storage - well, you get the
idea).

12) Limit the amount of space taken up by "masthead" stuff (headings, descriptions, rankings, etc. at the top of
the page) so we can actually see some questions. This is now worse than ever - I have to page down just to see
the first question.

13) From Merijn: The ability to have a fixed signature in one's profile.

The following are former issues, fixed in the last major update:

The slow submit issue that causes so many duplicate postings and duplicate replies seems to have been completely
eradicated, thanks!

The same is true for inablility to assign points issue, thanks!

And also for: (Borrowing from JRF: could you please *not* preload "databases" (just because it is the lexicograph
ically first item). Instead, make the user choose the correct category.) Thanks!

Now, when a question is moved, the link points directly to the question, rather than just to the category, thanks
!

Pete

Re: Please Report Forums Issues - December 2003!

H.Merijn Brand (procura — Thu, 04 Dec 2003 06:55:14 GMT

And a longstanding from me again: use relative width: 100%, so I dond have to scoll though pages full that are only filled on the left side.

Wide screens are gaining fast. Even laptops have 16:10 nowadays

Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn

Re: Please Report Forums Issues - December 2003!

V. Nyga — Thu, 04 Dec 2003 08:50:00 GMT

Hi Pete/Dan,

what's about possibility of correct the spelling of your own threads
and
to close a own thread?

'Pre-assign 0 points': till now you can't change the points you have given. So you have to differentiate between '0 pts' and 'pre-assigned 0 pts'?

Regards
Volkmar

Re: Please Report Forums Issues - December 2003!

Michael Schulte zur Sur — Thu, 04 Dec 2003 09:48:42 GMT

Hi Dan,

1:this morning my notification list disappeared.
2:I still have no clue, how the list unrated/1-7 points is sorted.
3:column of points in the list of my answers.

greetings,

Michael

Re: Please Report Forums Issues - December 2003!

Steven E. Protter — Thu, 04 Dec 2003 10:55:00 GMT

Mozilla HP-UX 1.4 is generating constant redirect limit errors.

IE does not do this.

Help, your fonts disappeared in IE and I can't get them back.

SEP

Re: Please Report Forums Issues - December 2003!

Bruno Ganino — Thu, 04 Dec 2003 12:42:38 GMT

Dan, my suggestions are:

1) To Give the possibility of to close thread (naturally only to owner of question) clicking on new button (close-thread).
The question closed, can to be recognized by padlock icon (or other symbol).

This avoids to display, in the first positions, questions very old or definitively solved and Avoids answers to questions obsolete.

2) The idea of John Poff is useful, i agree.
"when you start the monthly issues thread you could post a list of the open issues that your developers are still working on"

3) Create a new category for congratulations and others things various no technical.

4) Possibility of correction the spelling of your own threads, because the meaning of the words are very important. In My answer I have confused "change some parameters" with "change same parameters" but the meaning is different !

Help you all user of Language not English/American.

Greetings

Bruno

Re: Please Report Forums Issues - December 2003!

H.Merijn Brand (procura — Thu, 04 Dec 2003 13:18:23 GMT

Why did Pete not include the date issue? Does he not care? It's a daily nuisance

15 Dec 2003 or 20031215 please!

I don't care if it has to be set in the user profile or manually in a cookie, but I want understandable dates

Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn

Re: Please Report Forums Issues - December 2003!

Pete Randall — Thu, 04 Dec 2003 13:24:37 GMT

Merijn,

I spent time in the military and time as a programmer. I can deal with dates in most any form. Since it doesn't bother me anywhere near as much as it seems to bother you, I'll leave it to you to bring up!

;^)

Pete

Re: Please Report Forums Issues - December 2003!

Kurt Beyers. — Fri, 05 Dec 2003 02:34:21 GMT

Dan,

The style sheet is missing again.

Kurt

Re: Please Report Forums Issues - December 2003!

Michael Schulte zur Sur — Fri, 05 Dec 2003 05:18:12 GMT

Hi Dan,

what was going on last night? I couldnt get any connect.

greetings,

Michael

Re: Please Report Forums Issues - December 2003!

Robert-Jan Goossens — Fri, 05 Dec 2003 09:34:05 GMT

Could someone cleanip these links,

empty post
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=293548

double post
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=293526

Thanks,
Robert-Jan

Re: Please Report Forums Issues - December 2003!

melvyn burnard — Fri, 05 Dec 2003 09:43:55 GMT

Second one removed, first one I have alerted Dan to take a look

Re: Please Report Forums Issues - December 2003!

Patrick Wallek — Fri, 05 Dec 2003 09:57:39 GMT

Dan,

I can agree with Merijn's suggestion to have the date format selectable in a person's user profile.

Merijn,

I used to work for a company in the US that had regular dealing with a company based in the Netherlands. Each office used the date format that they normally used. No one complained. We all dealt with it just fine.