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Phil Chouinard

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  • PhilC Be Bloggin': Bentley Launches New Generation of Product Lines

    Phil Chouinard
    Phil Chouinard

    If you followed all of what took place earlier this week at the Year In Infrastructure 2014 event in London, you have to admit that there was a lot that happened. One of the primary focuses of that event was on the incredible infrastructure projects that…

    • Fri, Nov 7 2014
  • Communities Help Blog: Communities Upgrade: RSS Feeds

    Phil Chouinard
    Phil Chouinard
    In the current communities platform, you can get information delivered to you about a topic (or topics) or from a community or application within a community (e.g. forum, blog, wiki, calendar, etc.) You can even get information based on a search string…
    • Fri, Oct 24 2014
  • Communities Help Blog: Communities Upgrade: SyntaxHighlighter

    Phil Chouinard
    Phil Chouinard

    Another thing introduced in the recent Communities upgrade is the inclusion of a "syntax highlighter"

    Programmers and developers should find useful when providing or including code in a Communities forum post or blog or wiki article. To take…

    • Tue, Oct 14 2014
  • Communities Help Blog: Communities Upgrade: Additional Email Notifications

    Phil Chouinard
    Phil Chouinard

    If you are getting a good number of notifications through email relating to activity in Communities forums (e.g. forum threads started, forum reply posts, etc.) that you had not been receiving before, this could be due to some services that existed previously…

    • Mon, Oct 13 2014
  • Communities Help Blog: Communities upgrade: Transfer of search string to forum thread subject seamless

    Phil Chouinard
    Phil Chouinard

    As you add a question to a forum (i.e. start a new thread)

    whatever you enter will invoke the site's search utility to see if what you are asking had been asked previously:

    In situations where no of the returned results is what you are looking…

    • Mon, Aug 18 2014
  • Communities Help Blog: Communities upgrade: "Search as you type" finds applicable forum threads while you type a question

    Phil Chouinard
    Phil Chouinard

    When you use Search, results appear as you are entering what you are searching for. As you start, you will see one set of results:

    and then as you enter more information, you will see a different set of results:

    Subsequently, when you enter all…

    • Fri, Aug 15 2014
  • Communities Help Blog: Communities upgrade: Search filters based on context

    Phil Chouinard
    Phil Chouinard

    As mentioned previously, Search results are based on the scope of where you are when you initiate your search. So if you are in a wiki, the results will default to being scoped to that community's wiki content:

    You can dynamically expand that to…

    • Wed, Aug 13 2014
  • Communities Help Blog: Communities upgrade: More modern search interface

    Phil Chouinard
    Phil Chouinard

    The Communities Search function provides a better user experience by supporting "natural language" search for content, users, etc. within scope of the application (e.g. forum, community, site, etc.) that you are currently in, but with the flexibility…

    • Mon, Aug 11 2014
  • Communities Help Blog: Communities upgrade: Search always present

    Phil Chouinard
    Phil Chouinard

    Regardless of the browser, device, or size of the browser window, search is always present in the interface.

    This provides continual, almost persistent reminder that search is a primary form of getting information and answers to questions.

    • Fri, Aug 8 2014
  • Communities Help Blog: Communities upgrade: Related and Recommended Content

    Phil Chouinard
    Phil Chouinard

    Something else that helps provide assistance in finding solutions to issues is a dialog that appears and suggests other content that could be relevant or recommended as it relates to what you are looking at. As you scroll down through forum threads and…

    • Wed, Aug 6 2014
  • Communities Help Blog: Communities upgrade: No more view original post

    Phil Chouinard
    Phil Chouinard

    In the activity streams, replies to posts and answers to posts are linked directly to the thread they are part of:

    So there is no longer any need to have to expand the "View original post" to see what the response is to.

    • Mon, Aug 4 2014
  • Communities Help Blog: Communities upgrade: Forum post options

    Phil Chouinard
    Phil Chouinard

    Something else to provide more obviousness is the elimination of tabs for options in the Forum post editor. All options are now on the same page as the editor:

    This makes it much easier to "see" all options available to you when creating or maintaining…

    • Fri, Aug 1 2014
  • Communities Help Blog: Communities upgrade: More Button

    Phil Chouinard
    Phil Chouinard

    The "More" button combines a number of user interface items (e.g. tabs, "hidden" glyphs, etc.) that competed for space or were just plain not obvious.

    This makes some previously hidden items (e.g. "Flag as spam/abuse", moderator…
    • Wed, Jul 30 2014
  • Communities Help Blog: Communities upgrade: Forum Thread Presentation

    Phil Chouinard
    Phil Chouinard

    Forum thread presentation got a good deal of user experience improvement. When looking at the forum thread list...

    If you click on "Answered" or "Suggested Answer", you will see a preview of the answer without having to "open" the thread.…

    • Mon, Jul 28 2014
  • Communities Help Blog: Communities upgrade: Responsive design

    Phil Chouinard
    Phil Chouinard

    Another great new capability included with the Communities platform upgrade is responsive design. With this scheme, site elements appear almost identically on different formats and screens -- whether from a desktop browser or from a mobile browser. With…

    • Fri, Jul 25 2014
  • Communities Help Blog: Communities upgrade: Tour Tips

    Phil Chouinard
    Phil Chouinard

    One of the various things we heard from members when the Communities site was migrated at the end of 2013 was what the new things were. In this migration, there is something called "Tour Tips" included, which are meant for first-time, new members and…

    • Tue, Jul 22 2014
  • Communities Help Blog: Communities Platform Upgrade

    Phil Chouinard
    Phil Chouinard
    We recently mentioned that an upgrade to our Communities site is coming. A sneak peek at the next release is below:
    Our biggest effort is to provide “new and improved” for the user experience. Although we are starting simple, there…
    • Fri, Jul 18 2014
  • Communities Help Blog: Introduction to Tags and Tag Clouds

    Phil Chouinard
    Phil Chouinard

    A tag is a keyword or term associated with a piece of content. In the context of Bentley Communities, that is a forum post, wiki or blog article, file or image, idea, etc. It links the content to other content that it relates to contextually. Tags give…

    • Wed, Apr 16 2014
  • Communities Help Blog: Be Communities Mail Gateway

    Phil Chouinard
    Phil Chouinard

    Be Communities provides a rich Web experience that gives members the opportunity to interact with other community members (including Bentley colleagues) through online forums, blogs, files/images galleries, and wikis. To increase participation and productivity…

    • Wed, Mar 19 2014
  • PhilC Be Bloggin': Keith Little (1951 - 2014)

    Phil Chouinard
    Phil Chouinard

    For those who knew Keith Little, it is with a heavy heart that I must share the sad news of his passing. Keith worked at Bentley during "the early days" and always greeted you with a smile and the positive side of things. Although he is no longer with…

    • Wed, Feb 19 2014
  • Communities Help Blog: Introducing Community Ideas

    Phil Chouinard
    Phil Chouinard

    "Ideas" is a Bentley Communities application module that adds category posing and idea generation, rating, commenting, voting, and triage to communities. The Ideas application can be customized with a look and feel that encourages innovation and community…

    • Wed, Feb 12 2014
  • Communities Help Blog: Introducing Communities Document Preview

    Phil Chouinard
    Phil Chouinard

    The Document Preview feature provides the ability to preview certain documents in the media galleries before downloading them. Here are some things to know about this function:

    • You can download a file that has a Document Preview.
    • The size of the preview…
    • Wed, Feb 5 2014
  • Communities Help Blog: The New-and-improved Be Communities

    Phil Chouinard
    Phil Chouinard

    Here are just some of the things that are included with the new-and-improved Be Communities:

    Search

    There is now more prominence and improvements to the site's search. The search field is located closer to “the action” on the home page as well on the…

    • Sun, Dec 15 2013
  • Communities Help Blog: Viewing an image at original size when inserting in a post or article

    Phil Chouinard
    Phil Chouinard

    When you insert an image that is larger than the width of the widget you are in inserting the image into (in pixels in the x direction), the image will either get "resized" to the pixel width of the widget or the image will get "cut off" on the right…

    • Wed, Dec 4 2013
  • PhilC Be Bloggin': Solids Working Area (or SWA)

    Phil Chouinard
    Phil Chouinard

    Quite a bit has been said about the subject... some of it being true, some of it not being so true. To help "clear the air" about it...

    The best practice for solids modeling in MicroStation is to keep it simple. If you consider a 3D model in…

    • Thu, Aug 29 2013
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