Announcing the NI Discussion Forums Upgrade

[JackDunaway]

Quote from the Help Page:

"We've improved the way the Search feature works to make it both easier to use and to increase the relevance of search results. Almost as soon you start typing a search term, the system suggests matching topics."

Is this for real? I can't see it in Chrome or IE8. When I read that on the Help Page, I'm envisioning something like autocomplete on Google, but I can't find any search box on the NI website with this feature...

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Another part of the help page is titled "Community Basics". All of the lingo on that help page is misleading, since the NI Forums and the Communities are not related.

[JackDunaway]

Dubious....

[smercurio_fc]

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Laura F. wrote:

• Saverio - I'm not sure about the performance issues you've been seeing.  Does it happen regardless of network or computer? I will be performing an analysis on the performance now that we are upgraded with help from our network team.

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I've seen this both at work (measly DSL connection) and at home (high speed cable). The delay in displaying the main forums page is quite noticeable. 4-5 seconds at least.

[Mathan]

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@JackDunaway wrote:

Dubious....

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By default the search will happen in "User Login, Biography, Rank". Kindly have a look at the Advanced search option. In case of your search, have a look at the Mathieu Steiner's biography.

[RayFarmer]

Ray F. - did you tell me what browser you are using so I can investigate?

IE7 (7.0.5730.13C0)

regards

RayF

[RobertoBozzolo]

Some questions on searches in the boards. Sorry if already asked: I don't remember all the items in this discussion...

ITEM 1 - When using the advanced search I find the following:

Q1. Would it be possible to have the board name instead of its ID (?) in 'from' field? You know, 'LabVIEW' or 'LabWindows/CVI' are a bit more descriptive than '170' or '180'

Q2. Would it be possible to select more than one board to search in? E.G. searching some example on a DAQ function I may find answers both in Multifunction I/O and CVI boards

Q3. When I click on a discussion in the results list to read it and then go back to the list, the 'from' field is now empty!

ITEM 2 - The search can be refined with some options, as in this example:

Q1. Is it possible to have these selections linked to my profile so that they are always ckecked?

Q2. What is a 'teaser' here?

[muks]

Inserting horizontal line has been removed. Why?

[RobertoBozzolo]

Selecting a portion of the online help text from CVI window (specifically the popup that displays help on a function panel or a parameter in a fp) generates a formatted table with the selected text in it. Good option. Here a sample:

CmtNewLock <script src="c:/programmi/national%20instruments/cvi8/bin/libref/launchhelp.js"></script>

lockName

const char *

The name you want to give to the lock you are creating. Pass NULL if you do not want to name the lock. Unnamed locks provide better performance than named locks. You must name the lock if you plan to use the lock across multiple processes. The lock name must not be longer than MAX_PATHNAME_LEN characters.

The problem is that you are not able in any way to pass over the table and continue typing after it, unless you have previously placed an empty line after the position you are pasting the text.

As you see, it also leaves  a visible <script> tag in the text.

Additionally, if the message has a gray background like this one you don't see the table borders, while you see them on white bachground messages (see here)

[Ray.R]

On the plus side:  Clicking on the new post in the Ideas forum does bring you to the appropriate page / post.  Nice.

[Ben]

I still need to ensure the tag clouds get revisted. Not for my tagging tool but for my daily usage.

1)

The truncated names are bad.

THe detailed information is at the tail end of the tag so the truncating steps on the info I need to see.

To see this issue you can drill down from LabVIEW into LabVIEW_Performance and you will see the tail end of those tags get truncated. THe old version showed to full tags.

2)

The pseudo serach order is painful. The pseudo search order is OK for the tag cloud next to the LV main board because my first step in finding an existing tag is to get into the main catagory so finding "LabIVEW_Performance" in the tag cloud on the main LV page gives me a head start. Good.

But when I get into the tag clouds, it get very hard to find the tag sub-catagories because I have no idea where they SHOULD be in the cloud. If the were in alphabetical order (like they used to be), I could locate the correct part of the screen and find the word in the cloud. No can do with pseudo-sort unless I happen to remeber how many times I used that tag previously... but when I use it again the pseudo-sort will move it again!

3) Inserting images using the URL from somewhere else on the forums (example the chasing butterfiles above) don't get inserted where my cursor was! For the butterfly image above I ...

a) Put my cursor where you see the image now.

b)clicked the insert image, went to the third tab pasted the URL, ... inseterted the image and closed the dialog and the image was inserted near the top of the posting. I had to drag the image to where you see it now. I have seen this alomost everytime I attempt to do the same operation.

Using IE8 on XP.

Ben