A few forums enhancements and fixes....

[Kimberly Ann]

Hi All,

Want to let you know that we'll be deploying some user requested enhancements and fixes. Most notably, the following:

1. The Question Author's name will now be in the Reply Page window as a link back to their public profile
2. The daily email notification will have a closing parenthesis in the ITRC section, allowing the links to work in certain browsers.
3. The links in your public profile page will all be in correct order (most recent first).
4. The ranking of Categories on the home page and in the most active listing will be correct.
5. The "new message" button will be changed to "start new thread". As well, the "reply" button will appear to the far right within threads and separated from the "start new thread" button.
6. The printable version link will be active in the message preview pages.
7. Question authors will be able to "close" their threads in the event they find a solution or a community member posts a solution. This will keep the author from having to assign points to additional replies once a solution is posted.
8. The number of rated replies seen in their public profile will now be upated correctly in the event some of the replies are removed. Finally!

Hope these help your overall forums experience.....

Thanks,
Dan

[JohnWRuffo]

Awesome Dan! I am already enjoying you and your teams hard work and efforts! Congatulations and thank you! Really, thank you!

[Roger Faucher]

Dan:

Awesome, Dude! I can't believe it's finally done.

John:

I've been out of circulation lately. Congratulations on your shinym new hat. Nice work!

Make a great day, guys.

Roger

[JohnWRuffo]

Thank you Roger! but... I am keeping my wizzie wand. ;-)

[R. Sri Ram Kishore_1]

Hi Dan,

This is great news! Thanks a ton!

Regards,
Sri Ram

[Cheryl Griffin]

It's looking good.
Cheryl

[Kusuma]

Cool.. the new features are really good. Thanks Dan.

- Kusuma

[Bharat Katkar]

Many Thanks to you and your Team. This will really ease and help entire forummer's community.
Regards,
Bharat

[Steven E. Protter]

Oh,

Here is where I should have posted my praise.

Pat on the back team.

It appears that most of the above listed features do work.

SEP

[Naveej.K.A]

Excellent....

I have been away from forums for quite a long time now and I logged into read your post.

Awesome....and a many many thanks for the same

Naveej

[Michael Schulte zur Sur]

Dan,

good work! Thank you for having an ear for the forumers!

Michael

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

Ahhhhhrg. The buttons are located wrong.

I think I now have pushed "Notify me" instead of "Reply" about 15 times! Grrrrr. Each time I have to go to my profile to get rid of the unwanted notification.

OK, I understand that there were a lot of people that mixed up the buttons, and the text could be better. Even though I /never/ mistakenly pushed the wrong button, I do so now on almost every occasion.

I like that the author is now shown
I like a thread can now be closed, but please make the possibility to make a remark for the closing an option (off by default). It's quite annoying to see a message pop to top with as only addition a text message "Closed." or "This thread now closed". Bah!
I like the correct order and other ranking issues solved

Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn [ who now wants the speed back ]

[Geoff Wild]

Yes - well done.

I too keep pressing the "notification" button instead of reply...

As far as closing, I like how you can re-open the thread if need be.

Thanks...Geoff

PS: Can someone hit the turbo button on the forum servers? Slow again right now :(

[Rita C Workman]

Wonderful !

...and a very large Thanks to You and The ITRC Support Team Staff. You folks are the BEST !


Kindest Regards,
Rita

[Dave Unverhau_1]

Nice job, Dan (& company)!

The thread closure feature is a great idea. As Merijn mentioned, it would be nice, though, if the closure could be accomplished without pushing it back to the top of the stack...

The author link is a nice addition, too.

Thanks for all your great work on the ITRC!

Best Regards,

Dave

[Kimberly Ann]

procura/Geoff, sorry about the alignment of the buttons...thought they'd help in the long run, hopefully you'll grow accustomed to the new layout.

Dave/procura, you are right...closed threads need to remain where they are...I'll see if we can get that modifed soon.

All, we appreciate the support!

Thanks,
Dan

[Ramalingam]

Hi,
Very Nice ....
Thanks .
But Why do we get paired(double) result threads when we search for previous posts ?
http://us-support2.external.hp.com/emse/bin/doc.pl/emse/bin/doc.pl/distrib_redir=1+1093323905|*?rn=25&source=7000&hpl=1&from=forums&searchcategory=ALL&todo=search&origin=0&wpa=forums1.itrc.hp.com%3A80&searchcriteria=allwords&submit.x=0&submit.y=0&searchtext=MySQL&esc=us-support.external.hp.com&chkServStor=on&presort=rank


Regards,
Ram.

[Ramalingam]

Hi Dan,

Can you also add Lock thread option in
Author's Forum Profile Page....
( Like Locking many threads at time )

Regards,
Ram.

[Kimberly Ann]

Hi Ramalingam,

The double results is an issue within the search index. It is something I've reported, and hopefully will be fixed soon.

Thanks for the 'lock thread' idea for your profile, will keep that in mind.

-Dan

[Darren Prior]

Dan,

Some good new features, I particularly like having the author's name in the reply window ;)

regards,

Darren.

[Muthukumar_5]

Hai Dan,

It is really nice and seems to be great ( locks )

Some feedback's as

1. Is it good to display message as " Please recoginize the responders by assigning points on locking threads / disabling to notification. It will make a notification to the thread starter to give points so that no need to notify to assign points on some conditions :)

And one more thing is,

when i click my profile on browser client it sends me to

http://europe-support.external.hp.com/login/bin/doc.pl/screen=loginUserMaintenanceHome/distrib_redir=0+1093407853|*


so that i am getting could not login.

But if i go through the name on top new members (Muthukumar) it is going without any problem?

Thanks
Muthu

[Kimberly Ann]

Hi Muthukumar,

There are 2 database instances for login, one in Europe and one in US. Check the upper right of the page now and see if you are in Americas/Asia Pacific. The Europe login ids are of the format BRxxxxxx. You have the Americas/Asia Pacific format of CAxxxxxx, so you need to login on the Americas/Asia Pacific page. You may have visited the Europe login page and it reset your cookie which would explain why you are redirected there at times.

Thanks,
Dan

[Bharat Katkar]

Hi Dan,
Well i don't know if i am expecting too much and how much usefull this will be for other but it would be great if one can reopen the thread :).
Sometimes you feel like contnuing the same thread after some period of time when you face any new issues related to the same subject and then you require the history.
Also it may happen if someone by mistake or in a hurry clicks that tab.

Regards,
Bharat

[Antoniov.]

Hello Dan,
#1 id very good idea: well done!
#4 and #5 good.
#7 it's fantastic :-)
#8 it seems doesn't work for me or else I don't understand what is it.

HP technicians works well. Please send them my own congratulation for their job.

Antonio Vigliotti

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

Dan,

Just my opinion.

Few times I accidentally clicked "Post new thread ("new message" before) as it appears first. When people look at the thread either they try to get notified or try to respond to it.

"reply" button is looking too small when compared to the others. So, I would suggest something like "Post response" or anything that is little longer.

With that, I feel the order should be "Post response", "Notify Me", "Start new thread" as the last one is the least relavent action one would attempt while in that page.

-Sri