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Upcoming work planned in the Programming areas

Phil Chouinard
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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:

  • Create a "general" Bentley Programming forum in the Programming community.
  • Move all applications in all *programming sub-communities that currently have content in them "up" to the Programming community. The result would be "peer applications" (e.g. Bentley Programming, MicroStation Programming, ProjectWise Programming, Geospatial Programming, etc. right "next" to each other).
  • Remove all *programming sub-communities.

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.

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    We are going to have the same forum, wiki, files, etc associated with the same sub forums but in a different place? Or are some of the sub communities going away? If we combine too much, the more active content will bury the less active content. i.e. Microstation programming over OpenSTAAD programming.
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    Yeah, this is challenging to articulate, so I'll make some images later that should help.

    Basically, the applications (e.g. forums, wikis, etc.) that exist now and have content in them will remain as discrete containers. They will just be in one community instead of spread over several. We are seeing questions for various development topics ending up in the MicroStation Programming forum now, so to help minimize that, that's where the Bentley Programming forum comes in. When critical mass for a specific API or SDK happens there, we will split that off onto its own. The intent is to keep what we have regarding separation of topics, just make it less hierarchical.

     

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    This is a pictorial image of what is being planned:

    BEFORE

    AFTER

     

  • Offline in reply to Phil Chouinard

    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.

  • Offline in reply to Phil Chouinard
    Just using an off the shelf forum package would be a lot simpler I'm sure. This one is used by a very large Forum I am a member of: https://xenforo.com/

    I often find it difficult to actually find something twice on your current system. The prompt that suggests previous threads on the same topic is good though.

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