Please Report Forums Successes -- October 2003!

[Kimberly Ann]

Hi Everyone,

Please continue to submit your highlights and successes you have had while using the Forums. Your feedback helps convey the positive influences the forums have had on your IT life. For example, have you:

1. Posted a question and received a key answer that solved your problem?
2. Have you viewed a message thread that had a solution to a problem you were trying to solve?
3. Found the Forums to be of particular help in sharing information, exchanging best practices, or saving you time?

I'd really like to hear from everyone -- your circumstances, the issues, the outcome, who was of help, time saved, etc.! If you have examples to share, please provide the URL of the thread if possible.

Thanks in advance for your input!

Best Regards,
Dan Gazzaniga
Forums Manager

[Pete Randall]

Dan,

My monthly request list - please note that some items were corrected in the Sept 20 update - I've left the
m in the list for now so that we can all appreciate the efforts that you and the team put forth:

1) Done (though I have seen a few delayed responses)! Thankyou! Fix the slow submit issue that causes s
o many duplicate postings and duplicate replies (get rid of java?).

2) Done (I believe)! Thankyou! Fix the inablility to assign points issue (java, again?).

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

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

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

6) Done! Thankyou! (Borrowing from JRF: could you please *not* preload "databases" (just because it is
the lexicographically first item). Instead, make the user choose the correct category.)

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

8) 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.

9) 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.

10) Done! Thankyou! When a question is moved, make the link point to directly to the question, rather t
han just to the category.

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

12) 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 differ
ent?

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

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


Pete

[Pete Randall]

Dan,

Sorry, wrong thread - I meant to post my list to the Issues thread, but some of my wishes have been granted so I guess that makes them successes. You and the team definitely deserve a pat on the back for the recent improvements - thanks.


Pete

[George_Dodds]

As ever my severe lack of scripting prowess lead me to ask for script help again, as my cheap and cheerful unix book was confusing matters.

It didnt takes long before i had a number of scripts i could use and info to go with them.

I even managed to understand and edit Clay's script so it did the job perfectly.

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=227376

Cheers Guy's

George

[Hari Kumar]

Hatsoff to all people foruming here, Wonderful response to the posts and encouragement to people who reply too.Though
i was registered for forums never dare to be here between these Great Oceans of knowledge.
I found very good threads when browsing to Profiles of people who were been congratulated for their new Crowns and i added to my favourites,These are THE BEST collections for me.. some of them -----
Sysadmin scripts,Unix commands e.t.c

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=123030

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=178514

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=51050

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=131649

Thanks alot for all people here
Learning alot from forums.......

[Geoff Wild]

Congrats to me!

Just got back from Detroit where I passed the HP-UX High Availability Advanced IT Professional Exam!

I believe that my participation in the forums helped me to be successful.

Rgds...Geoff

[Jay Bollyn]

Dan,

In this link, I was able to help JC with a Netscape problem:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?admit=716493758+1065274397497+28353475&threadId=227498

John pointed me toward the winXP registry solution to a IE6 security problem, that has annoyed me for some time:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=227915

This is an example of the HP Forums as a valuable IT information network!

:-) Jay

[Steven E. Protter]

I think this is a success.

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=234090

SEP