Welcome message for new-registred users

[EvenDeejay]

Hi!

I'm not sure if this is already been suggested or if it's implemented already, but here I go:

When a new user register at the forum or NI, I would presume that the user is new to LabVIEW. How about a welcome message for the new user? This could be a private message and contain useful information. Like links to the biggest and mostly used community groups, links to different basic tutorials, links to popular boards etc.

I see that there are many new users that ask questions which would be answered by doing the basic tutorials. We provide them some links and they appreciate it alot. When I registred a year ago, for me, the NI site and forum where quite unfamiliar and I spent alot of time, just to get to known where to look for stuff. I didn't discover the basic tutorials until I posted a "newbie" question and got some links in reply. The tutorials helped me alot!

The tutorials are not so hard to find, but I think many people, like myself, don't know they exists when they register to the forum.

Please correct me if I'm wrong, since my memory is like "10 second Tom" in the movie "Fifty first dates" with Adam Sandler 

[Laura F.]

Hi Even,

Some months ago I started sending out welcome private messages to users that have just registered to the forums.  Right now it's just a message that thanks them for participation and directs them to the feedback board if they have any questions about using the forum system.  I haven't included any links about products.  Perhaps I could include the following:

ni.com/gettingstarted

ni.com/code

Which tutorials were  helpful to you?  Did you search for them? How would you recommend that I direct new users to them?  Keep in mind that the new users can be using any NI product.

Thanks for the suggestion!

Laura

[EvenDeejay]

Hi Laura,

I found the 3 and 6 hour courses very useful. Also the learning LV 101 found here.

I believe I just searched the forums for answers and posted questions if I could not find anything. Many of my questions would not have been nessesary if I had taken the courses first. 

For providing the user with the links I can think of two ways:

1. Since there can be users for other products thatn LabVIEW, maybe the links should be general for everyone.

2. When a user registers, he/she should be able to choose products/interests and the private message could be built based on that. The register page should contain checkboxes and the user just select what he/she wants.

[EvenDeejay]

I see now that the register page already got an select-interest-thingy. Maybe build the PM out of that then. 

[Laura F.]

For now I think I could just provide a collection of commonly used resources. I definitely like the ones you mention.  For now I don't have the ability to customize the PM based on interest.  Here are some others I can think of:

Getting Started with NI Products

Getting Started with NI-DAQmx

NI CompactRIO Developers Guide (although this may be too advanced)

Thanks,

Laura

[Laura F.]

I'm going to start appending the following to the private message that goes out to new users this week:

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If you are just becoming familiar with NI products, you may wish to check out these useful resources:

Getting Started with NI Products (includes LabVIEW, DAQ, CompactRIO, and Instrument Control)
Getting Started with NI-DAQmx
Introduction to NI LabVIEW
Learning LabVIEW 101
Getting Started & User Guides at ni.com/manuals

In addition, NI offers a variety of training courses if you are interested in self-paced, online or classroom based training.

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We'll see if I get some feedback from the recipients!

Thanks,

Laura

[EvenDeejay]

Thank you Laura!

[jaspercueva]

If I can just say that I have joined the forum today and am familiarising myself with it, finding the information I need etc and I noticed the tutorials link on the index page immediately. So if that has been put there recently........thanks!

[EvenDeejay]

That's good to hear

[ProBluesJam]

Ditto on the tutorials link - very helpful!