Who can share "how-to"? I didn't find ways so far.
I certainly welcome some of the community software enhancements like better notification, RSS and the new "verified answer" function, superb search results(!). However, with every release the structure, navigation and GUI changed a lot, causing effort to re-learn even simple tasks. There's one big reason my activity here reduced a lot in the past months: Lost overview.
That's my main difficulty here. And maybe someone can give me hints.
For example I'm interested in MicroStation (product community), AskInga's (group), Administrative Topics like license server, and community help/feedback topics (some of this might be user community). Since most activity happens in forum posts (and at second glance in Wiki, Blogs), I'd like to quickly keep up with new threads and threads with new posts. But navigating to these different places is a myriad of mouseclicks. The shortest seem to be Community bookmarks, but: some mouseclicks to open a group or forum via bookmarks, then subforum, then leaving "activity" with its hundereds of single unrelated posts or "my activity" by a mouseclick "forum" to finally see the desired thread overview sorted by date. RSS doesn't help as well, big number of single posts spanning different threads - opposite of overview.
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I'm also missing the overview of threads I posted in, consolidated in ONE list no matter which forum topic it was (former "my discussions").
Who can help me? Or do I have to group the desired forum thread pages in Browser Bookmarks?
I dream of a conventional "what's new since last visit" page - listing the threads titles, with a link to each threads' last unread post. Like in most vBulletin forums. I'm used to this AND: I see no better way to keep overview. Maybe add comfort to restrict this to topics of interest, cause there's so many product topics here. Maybe also including new content in wikis of interest and blogs of interest. A dashboard easy to set up to my needs.
So, any hints for
Bigean
I agree entirely with this and is something I've been saying since the start of the new format. We need a page as the old site which lists the thread that we have started or posted in. This request seems to have been generally ignored, We had this page communities.bentley.com/.../default.aspx but this doesn't work now.
Don't expect much response from Bentley on this as they seem intent on not providing this 'feature', which worked really well on the old site.
The question is, can Bentley influence this directly or indirectly, depending if this community sofware is 3rd party out of the box, customizable, ...
That's why I also ask for as good as possible workarounds.
Unknown said: The question is, can Bentley influence this directly or indirectly, depending if this community sofware is 3rd party out of the box, customizable, ...
I'm sure they can. Just need the will from them!
I doubt it.
stuartw, do you have PM's enabled?
Unknown said: stuartw, do you have PM's enabled?
I thought so but who knows with My Settings. They seem to have a mind of their own!!