Currently, there are several sub-communities under the Programming community. These were pulled together from various places on Bentley Communities in an effort to consolidate them under one "umbrella". We recently realized that further consolidation could be done to simplify this area even further. Here is what we are planning to do:
This makes it so there is one Programming community, where information, answers to questions, and discussions can be shared a little more (instead of having to go to different places for information that could help your efforts). The Bentley Programming forum provides developers with a place to ask questions about product APIs and SDKs that do not really have a "home" right now. When enough questions are asked about any particular API or SDK, those can then be split off into its own forum.
If you have any questions, concerns, or comments, please feel free to post those here.
This is a pictorial image of what is being planned:
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I understand now, you want one place to search for answers, while keeping the discussions separate. And I assume this is a sample as there are many more Programming portions of communities than the ones shown.
Unknown said: Just using an off the shelf forum package...
Just using an off the shelf forum package...
We do use a third-party "off-the-shelf" system, which has much more than just forums (since the information being sought is often not just isolated to a forum). This provides us the ability to be able to create and maintain content in close proximity to a place where you can ask questions about it (or when you cannot find it).
FWIW, we keep tabs on most of the "main players" in that sphere. Switching platforms results in inflections, which is something we want to obviously avoid. However, we are not set on any specific technology. If something significantly better comes along, we will certainly consider that (weighing out the pros and cons first, of course, and then communicating any changes coming).
Unknown said: I often find it difficult to actually find something twice on your current system.
If you would not mind starting a separate thread about what you are trying, what your results are, and what you are expecting, we would like to look into this to figure out what might be happening and (more importantly) what we can do to minimize those instances.