Welcome to the New NI Discussion Forums!

[scotths]

Molly-

The discussion board is nice, but it really doesn't play well with comp.lang.labview at the present time, and I know you guys get participation through that route. Can you guys strip the html, and maybe replace the line break flag with a real line break before you echo the stuff to the usenet newsgroup? It would seem real easy to do, and a big help to participants who choose that option. It would also bring the postings to compliance with longstanding usenet conventions.

Thanks,
Scott

[Kermitthefrog]

Hi Scott,
Thanks for your feedback! NI is one of the few companies who synch their newsgroups with their discussion forums. We decided to keep this functionality in our new discussion forum because we still see participation from our usenet users, and we wanted the forums to be accessible through newsreaders. As we were testing our code, we discovered the same issues that you refer to, and actually struggled with how to go forward. Initially, we also wanted to fix the issues. However, the possible solutions were more complex than we initially imagined, and not possible with the initial timeframe. To meet our deadline, we had to decide to keep the NNTP synch (with the issues you describe), or kill the NNTP synch. We decided to keep the synch.

When we initially discussed possible solutions, the most viable solutions required us to limit the HTML functionality of our forum users in order for the NNTP posts to look better. However, with the bulk of our posts coming from the forum interface, we were initially hesitant to limit their posting ability. Now that the new forum is live, we can reexamine posting patterns. Our plan is to monitor the usage from our NNTP folks, and continue to look for an appropriate fix.

Regards,
Sarah Patterson
National Instruments

[Al_S]

Molly:

Can you turn off the automatic filtering of HTML errors?
The automatic filtering is more than just a nuisance for current posts. I just noticed that on some posts to the old forum for CVI, chunks of sample code were deleted from the posts.
A forum for ANSI C (like CVI) should allow posts of code snippets directly without forcing a text file to be attached. Currently, angle brackets on #include statements and less-than/greater-than comparisons are detected as HTML errors and are deleted from the posts.
For new posts, it's an aggravating inconvenience. But for previous posts to the old CVI forum, the author doesn't have the chance to attach a text file: the code is just automatically deleted. I've seen examples where #include statements and simple for loops like for (i=0; i LESSTHAN 10; i++) get deleted. The posts then don't make any sense. Part of the value of the forum is the wealth of experience displayed in previous posts. When these posts are automatically edited to remove anything that looks like an HTML error, valuable information is lost. I don't want to ask the same question someone previously answered because I can't read the answer.
This is the most serious problem I see in the new forum.

It seems like a dichotomy that HTML code is now aggressively sought out and destroyed, but http links aren't recognized. (I digress: links aren't my main problem).

Please consider the following:
1. For new posts, if an HTML error is detected, give the author a warning and an option to "correct" the code or to leave it intact. The default should be to leave it intact.
2. Reimport all old posts with all HTML filtering turned off. This may be a serious chunk of work and time, but as it is now, you're throwing away valuable information.

Thanks,
Al S

[Ray.R]

Well said Al.

Excellent suggestion. It is both annoying and you loose new & old info.

Thanks..

-JLV-

[Molly K]

Al S -

I have spent a good part of the morning trying to track down some examples of cases where the migrated data was deleted and where the newly posted data is being deleted as well.

I think this thread is an example that shows that bilalD is able to post them, but that Woolie Willie is not able to post them.
http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=180&message.id=13317

I posted some example messages this morning and was able to post successfully as well - I tested both an include statement and a for statement. This leads me to believe that it is a permission setting somewhere in the roles, but I have escalated this to the forum developers for support.

As you come across additional examples, please use the "Report Abuse to Moderator" option from the message to report them to me so that we can resolve this issue quickly.

Have a very Happy Holiday,

[Molly K]

4 - The ability to sort messages by the latest post in the thread is now available in the community.

The default is to sort by the latest post. If you prefer to sort by the date the thread was started, login to your profile and make changes on the Preferences tab.

Thanks!

[Ben]

I just noticed that minutes before you posted.

Good work Molly and Team!

This will definately helps us.

Ben

[chilly_charly]

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@Molly K wrote:
4 - The ability to sort messages by the latest post in the thread is now available in the community

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Great Molly !
This was really a desirable function, as demonstrated by the re-emerging fossil posts.

CC

[malkoba]

Hi

I have a problem in attaching multiple files when I am attaching a programme which has several sub vis. Is multiple file attachment feature not included in the web site or is there a way to get arround the problem.

Mal

[GerdW]

Hello malkoba,

you can save your vi's in libraries (with suffix .llb). Then you have only one file to attach.

Best regards,
GerdW