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
Phil:
B I N G O !
(at least at first glance)
This new presentation covers these questions:
Unknown said: (...) 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"). (...) So, any hints for "my discussions"? done what's new in threads? collecting Threads/wikis/groups/blogs of interest at one place, reducing navigation mouseclicks? Bigean
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EDIT: Phil's Link http://communities.bentley.com/f/default.aspx?Sort=Your also works as deep link, so it can be used in Browser Favorites to directly jump there.
Thanks, 2 steps progress ;)
Oh, and how about inserting a shortcut here, named "All Your Discussions"? Or somewhere else prominent?
The other one in future ;) will be "All new Discussions" (meaning threads with new posts since last visit).
Unknown said: Oh, and how about inserting a shortcut here, named "All Your Discussions"? Or somewhere else prominent?
Certainly understand the desire, just trying to balance out all the possible things that could go there (aka "how many things can you stuff in the titlebar before it becomes useless" :). We are doing some design thinking to figure out possible places.
Unknown said: The other one in future ;) will be "All new Discussions" (meaning threads with new posts since last visit).
Do you mean something like this?
http://communities.bentley.com/f/default.aspx?Sort=UnReadOnly&pi17850=6
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At least it should be accessable with 1-2 mouseclicks from every page.
Yes, that's the presentation I was looking for, 1 step progress. Next to it is the "what's new" that I was asking for. Obviously there's 2 difficulties we can see opening this "what's unread/new/unanswered":
1. All sticky threads from all forums come first, even older ones on the "what's new" thread. So for the latest user posts you will find yourself turning page after page to find the first really new thread. This is different to vBulletin forums, and I'm sure there's a reason for that. Something crying for change ;)
2. (I already mentioned): This site has an unusual high count of forums. The "what's new/what's unread" presentation across ALL forums should be optionally filtered. Give user a function to select "Points of interests" and save in settings. Then he/she will automatically have bookmarks and a filter for the "whats new" list. That's the next step.
3. After 2. is done, try to include wiki's, groups, blogs into the filtered "whats new/unread/unanswered". Can we users edit blogs/wikis? Then also include it into "all my discussions". The group thing is not clear for me.