suggestion(s)

[Wolfgang]

Hi,

1) With increasing regularity in the CVI forum questions concerning LabVIEW appear. May be one possibility to reduce the number of wrong posts could be to clean up the announcement section of the forum: Right now, as shown in the figure below, there are several announcements and links concerning LabVIEW. This could be misleading. In my opinion it would be better showing this text only in the LabVIEW forum.

2) The space 'saved' by omitting this LabVIEW related text could be used to display forum guidelines such as:

If your question has been solved, please mark the corresponding reply as solution.

Right now, few beginners do so.

Wolfgang

[RayFarmer]

Wolfgang,

This problem is not only relating to CVI forum, it happens right across all forums. The only boards that aren't usually affected are those where you dont get the option to select the required Board such as this one.

This topic has been raised a number of times and I have suggested that the action of submitting the Post, the required Board should be selected before the Post button is enabled and not left to the setting when you first do a New Post because sometimes this setting is wrong and users do not notice that it has changed.

[Wolfgang]

Hi Ray,

I didn't expect this note to be particularly inventive - but if raising it again helps to finally achieve the common goal I wouldn't mind

[Laura F. · Accepted solution]

Hi Wolfgang,

Thanks for the suggestion.  Right now, I change the announcements on a weekly basis or so at the top level of the forums to show case different items.  If a board does not have it's own specialized announcements, it will just inherit the top level.  Sometimes the announcements are not LabVIEW specific but often times they are.  If anyone has suggestions for specific announcements to go in a board like CVI, I am happy to change them because trying to keep up with all the product boards is overwhelming for me.

And as I read this I realized I haven't changed the announcements for this week yet!

Thanks,

Laura