NI Discussion Forum Upgrade - August 13, 2008

[RavensFan]

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JoeLabView wrote:

I've noticed a strange behavior.  When replying to a post, occasionally, just as I start typing, the page refreshes itself and moves the page up.  It then has a white window to the right, above the area where I type.  I'll post a screen capture next time it happens.

R

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Hi Ray,

I've seen that the reply window takes a handful of seconds to fully load.  I've usually already started typing.  A few letters get in, then it freezes up.  After a few more seconds, the screen does seem to jump up.  I haven't seen the white window to the right that you mention.  But overall, the reply window seems to take longer to load and sort of lets you start typing just enough to annoy me.

[Mathan]

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Ravens Fan wrote:

I've seen that the reply window takes a handful of seconds to fully load.  I've usually already started typing.  A few letters get in, then it freezes up.  After a few more seconds, the screen does seem to jump up.  I haven't seen the white window to the right that you mention. 

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Hai JLV and Ravens Fan,

I too had uch behavior. And as Fan said i also haven't seen such white window to the right. Maybe its a browser issue.

[TCPlomp]

I have some issues with the new forums:

• It steals focus, when I open up a reply page, and start typing in the search bar of Firefox 3 (for relevant pages), halfway the cursor moves away from the search bar and goes to the reply section
• It has load time with side effects, if I start directly typing after a second or so the cursor is moved to the beginning of the reply section, before allready type letters (most of the time I'm at character 3 or 4) (why??) if the cursor has to be replaced, place it to the end of the reply section.
• Inserting a hyperlink is less efficient, the <enter> key doesn't close the window, in fact you have to select the http:// part and replaced it with whatever content is to be typed (most of the times I copy from the clipboard which includes a http:// section allready. It might be better to leave the http:// part out and add it to the URL if it isn't found by the board software
• Inserting a picture is less efficient (see point above, all the same goes here)
• Inserting an attachment is less efficient (more click, worse workflow)
• It is still not possible to quote multiple messages
• It is still not possible to insert an image directly

Ton

Message Edited by TonP on 08-28-2008 07:55 AM

[Ray.R]

Agree with all points from Ton.

Got the weird window, which placed the avatar at the top and a blank window to the right of it.  See attached image.  It's big, so I will not display it my reply.

I got it by starting to type a reply, the page refreshes and I hit the ENTER key, then the page switched to the one in the attached image which is the one I am replying from (better copy the text)...

R

[Ray.R]

I am looking at a normal reply window right now, which places the avatar and the window at the bottom.  (In this reply) The window contains the avatar and text from whoever I am replying to... 

R

WOW... got an error message and the text from the reply attempt came back...  This is too weird!!!  😮

See attached error message

[Laura F.]

Hi Ray,

In the first image you posted - it looks like you hit the preview post button - the preview will appear above the editor.  Do you think that may have happened?  As for the error, were you trying to edit the message when the error occurred?  If you are editing the message for longer than the allowed time, the error message is not working quite right so you can see a message like that instead of a more informative one.  Lithium is aware of the issue and hopes to fix it soon.  

smercurio - you have some sort of extra bar at the bottom of your browser popup that is obscuring the last row of emoticons.  It looks like if you hit clear it could go away(?).  I'm not sure what it is, perhaps a browser addon?

Ton - many of the issues you report have to do with the slow editor load time, I'll be sure to bring this up.  Also, I have already filed suggestions to improve the image insertion popup, I'll do the same for the hyperlink insertion popup. When I open the link insertion window, the http:// is already highlighted and I don't have to click in the field - I just do CTRL + V and paste my copied URL - does that work for you?  The problem is that after that, hitting enter does not insert the link, you actually have to click Enter.

Ben - I'll see about increasing the number of attachments to 5.  For posts that you want to have more attachments, are they typically Nuggets?  I wonder if Nuggets should go on ni.com/community, it would probably be easier than creating multiple posts for one Nugget.  Here's an example of a CVI tip, you can see it has images attached.  I've seen other documents with embedded images, so I'm not sure why they aren't in that tip.  We can always still put it in the forum announcements and Nugget thread on BreakPoint.   Just a thought.

Thanks everyone,

Laura 

[smercurio_fc]

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Laura F. wrote:

smercurio - you have some sort of extra bar at the bottom of your browser popup that is obscuring the last row of emoticons.  It looks like if you hit clear it could go away(?).  I'm not sure what it is, perhaps a browser addon?

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Yes, that's the Download Statusbar add-on for Firefox. The window popus are supposed to resize automatically, but they appear like I posted about 20-25% of the time. I wasn't really sure if this was a browser issue or something else, so I posted my observation in the event anyone else was able to replicate the issue. If not, then it's most likely a browser/add-on issue. 

The issue I had noted earlier about the smiley window sometimes not responding to clicks does not seem to be tied to this though, as far as I can tell. 

[Mathan]

Did anybody faced these issues on replying a thread. It was seen only at afternoon and morning it was very fine. 1) Smileys, insert link, insert picture not visible. 2) Add attachments just move the screen up (bumping). I have taken print screen, but not able to attach now due to these problems. Will post whenever its possible. Mathan [ Edit: I have typed in single separate lines. But don't know how the text was continuous.]

Message Edited by mathan on 08-29-2008 05:29 AM

[Mathan]

Also, previously, after the Forum upgrade, the 'Submit Post' button will get disabled, once it was pressed, to avoid mulitple post miseries. (I thought of attaching that thread from JoeLabVIEW who suffered a lot by this. Just the link (http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=130&thread.id=4604) ) But now it was not disabled when pressed. Mathan

[muks]

Got this message all day long.Was not able to log on.

Message Edited by muks on 08-29-2008 08:04 AM