Subforums

Any chance this forum will be changed to have sub-forums for the different civil/land dev products (InRoads, PowerCivil, Geopak, etc.)
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  • Be Communities gives us a great opportunity to "start over" with a much simpler approach than what existed in the discussion groups. Given the ever increasing overlap with the Road Design products (e.g. the days where it is "only GEOPAK", "only InRoads", or "only MX" are in the past and not in then future), there is likely to be information discussed for one product that all involved with Road Design can benefit from. Suffice to say that we are not planning to create any sub-forums until there is necessary and sufficient reason to do so.

      

  • I think a better determination of the value of having mixed discussions would be whether you are teaching any software independent road design or land development classes, rather than if there is some overlap between functionality and ignoring the orders of magnitude greater differences between the programs.

     I used the newsgroups for 3 basic purposes:

    1. To get help

    2. to hear about bugs and workarounds

    3. to get tips

    Your much simpler approach has made my life simpler too. Now, I only use this for item 1. I don't do items 2 & 3 because I look at the topic subjects and say, 'I don't have time to sort through this.'    

    Phil Chouinard:
    Be Communities gives us a great opportunity to "start over" with a much simpler approach than what existed in the discussion groups. Given the ever increasing overlap with the Road Design products (e.g. the days where it is "only GEOPAK", "only InRoads", or "only MX" are in the past and not in then future), there is likely to be information discussed for one product that all involved with Road Design can benefit from. Suffice to say that we are not planning to create any sub-forums until there is necessary and sufficient reason to do so.

  • In regards to tags, can the followup replies by default include the tags that the OP had?  I see that it doesn't

     

     

  • I guess that could be looked into, but that would really be superfluous... as long as one article in a topic/thread contains tags, that should pick the whole topic/thread up in a search (and if additional tags are added in subsequent articles, the more "refined" the topic/thread could be when searching).

      

  • I still don't see the harm in creating subforums like the old site.  It still doesn't prevent an IR or MX user from looking at the GPK threads to see if there is something useful in their extra time.  You have subforums under Microstation.  Why does the rationale for subforums under Microstation not apply to Road Design? Simply because there are more posts?

    Okay, Okay, I'll stop ranting.  If you are going to make all of us IR, GPK, and MX users jump into bed together, can you at least buy us a few drinks first?

     BTW,  the old site is still pretty active.  When will it shut down?

  • <Why does the rationale for subforums under Microstation not apply to Road Design? Simply because there are more posts?>

    You answered your own question :) Seriously, that is the only Forum that has sub-forums, due to activity (we have monitored that over the years).

    Next time we are all in the same place (hmmm... Be Conference?) I'll buy a round.

    The discussion.bentley.com system will go to "archive" mode (i.e. read-only) soon... some time between now and the end of the year (most likely sooner than later, though).

    [EDIT] Currently planning to set all the discussion groups on discussion.bentley.com to read-only on December 15, 2008.

      

  • Phil Chouinard:

    It is MUCH better to start at a high level and work into finer levels of granularity than it is to start at a low level and work your way up. 

    True, much easier to start at a high level (forums), then work into finer levels (forums>products>road design and land dev products>AND THEN THE INDIVIDUAL PRODUCTS) then it would be to have everything lumped together.

    It is also MUCH better to service to your customers needs today, rather than servicing their expected needs for vaporware products.

    Just my 2 cents.

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  • Phil Chouinard:

    It is MUCH better to start at a high level and work into finer levels of granularity than it is to start at a low level and work your way up. 

    True, much easier to start at a high level (forums), then work into finer levels (forums>products>road design and land dev products>AND THEN THE INDIVIDUAL PRODUCTS) then it would be to have everything lumped together.

    It is also MUCH better to service to your customers needs today, rather than servicing their expected needs for vaporware products.

    Just my 2 cents.

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