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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="https://communities.bentley.com/cfs-file/__key/system/syndication/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Subforums</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/products/road___site_design/f/geopak-inroads-mx-openroads-forum/11922/subforums</link><description>Any chance this forum will be changed to have sub-forums for the different civil/land dev products (InRoads, PowerCivil, Geopak, etc.)</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>Telligent Community 12</generator><item><title>Re: Subforums</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/26590?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 07:08:06 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:c516e4d4-f454-4a26-a3a4-9cf39375bcf0</guid><dc:creator>Steven Guinter</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;
&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img src="http://communities.bentley.com/Themes/default/images/icon-quote.gif"&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Larry Whitt:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;choose to filter the posts (or not) via the tag which should be made available in a drop down list in the forum.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;This would help us inroad users that currently do not have MX or Geopak before we get all platforms merging into one.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; I like the tag and filter idea to sort and filter to an inroads topic.
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&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: Subforums</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/25905?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2008 01:21:17 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:6b479a07-6895-4932-9617-0f14e696c09b</guid><dc:creator>Phil Chouinard</dc:creator><description>That was looked into. After consideration, it was determined that there were simply too many possible &amp;quot;What if?&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Oops!&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;This applies to more than just...&amp;quot;, ad infinitum&amp;nbsp;things involved. This is NOT to say that things will be as they are now going forward, mind you -- only that this site is intended to change based on what happens, not on what might/should/may happen.&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: Subforums</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/25903?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2008 01:05:09 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:4f28d481-7708-402d-b62d-6a6b00af250e</guid><dc:creator>Lawrence Whitt</dc:creator><description>There is a way to have it both ways.&amp;nbsp; When the user creates a new post, the poster would be required to select from a list the software to which the post is specific.&amp;nbsp; If the post is more general in nature, General could be one of the availble options in the list.&amp;nbsp; But to enable submission of the post, a selection would have to be made - no default, unless the poster can specify a default in his or her profile or something.&amp;nbsp; Upon submission a tag would automatically be applied to the post in accordance with the poster's selection.&amp;nbsp; Readers could then choose to filter the posts (or not) via the tag which should be made available in a drop down list in the forum.&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: Subforums</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/21319?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Sat, 22 Nov 2008 01:23:39 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:458114f9-aafa-446f-a0d1-753ca570349d</guid><dc:creator>dsilverm</dc:creator><description>&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img src="http://communities.bentley.com/Themes/default/images/icon-quote.gif"&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Phil Chouinard:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; 
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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.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;
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True, much easier to start at a high level (forums), then work into finer levels (forums&amp;gt;products&amp;gt;road design and land dev&amp;nbsp;products&amp;gt;AND THEN THE INDIVIDUAL PRODUCTS) then it would be to have everything lumped together.
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It is also MUCH better to service to your customers needs today, rather than&amp;nbsp;servicing their expected needs&amp;nbsp;for vaporware products.
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Just my 2 cents. 
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: Subforums</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/21297?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:38:27 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:dcc8e96f-eff7-4dff-a920-0e1ce4131125</guid><dc:creator>Phil Chouinard</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;
&amp;lt;Why does the rationale for subforums under Microstation not apply to Road Design? Simply because there are more posts?&amp;gt; 
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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). 
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Next time we are all in the same place (hmmm... Be Conference?) I'll buy a round. 
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The discussion.bentley.com system will go to &amp;quot;archive&amp;quot; mode (i.e. read-only) soon... some time between now and the end of the year (most likely sooner than later, though). 
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&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[EDIT]&lt;/strong&gt; Currently planning to set all the discussion groups on discussion.bentley.com to read-only on December 15, 2008.&lt;/em&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: Subforums</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/21296?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:19:53 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:9a535648-bc15-4f4a-ba72-ee7c71cbe964</guid><dc:creator>Chris Dry</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;
I still don't see the harm in creating subforums like the old site.&amp;nbsp; It still doesn't prevent an&amp;nbsp;IR or MX user from looking at the&amp;nbsp;GPK threads to see if there is something useful in their extra time.&amp;nbsp; You have subforums under Microstation.&amp;nbsp; Why does the rationale for subforums under Microstation not apply to Road Design? Simply because there are more posts?
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Okay, Okay, I'll stop ranting.&amp;nbsp; 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?
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&amp;nbsp;BTW,&amp;nbsp; the old site is still pretty active.&amp;nbsp; When will it shut down?
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: Subforums</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/21245?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:22:57 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:72a0724b-b9c0-4ff0-a6b6-b7e5384ebbc1</guid><dc:creator>Phil Chouinard</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;
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 &amp;quot;refined&amp;quot; the topic/thread could be when searching).
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: Subforums</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/21242?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:16:48 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:585d7df0-80bf-4993-ba44-e9dbd0be0a04</guid><dc:creator>Dan Ficker</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;
In regards to tags, can the followup replies by default include the tags that the OP had?&amp;nbsp; I see that it doesn't
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&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: Subforums</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/21198?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:23:38 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:42d02b3b-b778-4580-89f7-700b73734eb8</guid><dc:creator>Brad Spalding</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;
Hi,
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Have to agree with Phil. As an MX user and knowing that Bentley is&amp;nbsp;in the process of merging MX, Inroads and Geopak I agree with having one forum. We should be sharing our knowledge of each product we are currently using to discuss with&amp;nbsp;Bentley and each other in order to get the best of the 3 in the new Bentley Civil product.
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For example as an MX user I am told the next genration product is going to adopt something similar to the Inroads roadway modeller. Hence I am interested in seeing roadway modeller,&amp;nbsp;seeing disucussion from Inroads users&amp;nbsp;on this forum and hopefully&amp;nbsp;joining in some discussion on the developing Bentley Civil version so we get the best next gneration package we can.&amp;nbsp;
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The products we are currently using and used to are about to change.&amp;nbsp;Being informaed and proactive about it will see the best outcome for all. At the end of the day I want to be using the best road design package in the market place.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;
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&amp;nbsp;Brad
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&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: Subforums</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/21177?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:39:32 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:0f398909-2018-4a5f-a85b-56a61ed6650b</guid><dc:creator>Phil Chouinard</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;
Thanks for the feedback. Having a bit of experience in this area (FWIW, 25+ years of experience in e-communications), I can assure you that there is rationale in what is being done. Is what is here now different than what was set up in the discussion groups? Yes, but it's&amp;nbsp;just different. 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.&amp;nbsp;My advice? Try it. Knowing the smart bunch that use our Road Design products, there will be some creative TAGS ways TAGS of TAGS making TAGS it TAGS easy TAGS to TAGS find TAGS your TAGS #1-3 TAGS (and then some).
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PS - please watch the use of language in your posts (yes, it was edited). What you may believe to be &amp;quot;situation normal conversation&amp;quot; may be offensive to others, who have just as much right to use this site as you do. This isn't a puritanistic point of view, it is simply noting that there are less &amp;quot;colorful&amp;quot; way to emphasize your point(s)... please respect others and keep that in mind in the future. TIA
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: Subforums</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/21170?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 04:14:11 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:75601c39-48bb-4f09-a2ad-7d1cef78b138</guid><dc:creator>Lucas Hicks</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;
Having the e-mail notification helps a lot but I have to agree.&amp;nbsp; I don't want to get e-mail about IR/MX or have to sort through the messages containing them.
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As long as there are three distinctly different Civil software products, I would prefer to see three distinct discussion forums. There may be a small overlap in functionality, but InRoads, Geopak and MX utilize very different approaches. There just isn't that much to talk about that applies to all three at this point.
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&amp;nbsp;As a Geopak user, I'd prefer NOT to have to sort through the IR/MX threads to get to what I'm looking for. 
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: Subforums</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/21132?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:10:48 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:5cbe437a-f238-4893-9810-0ba3e78bc574</guid><dc:creator>Chris Dry</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;
Phil,
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I can't speak on behalf of everyone, but I have to disagree with you on this one.&amp;nbsp; I'd prefer the subforums for GPK, IR, and MX.&amp;nbsp; Despite more and more common functionality, most of the threads on this forum are still specific to each software.&amp;nbsp; Since many&amp;nbsp;thread titles&amp;nbsp;don't have which software or version they are referring to, you have to read every posting to see if it is even a concern.
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Looking at all of the Geopak and MX threads, there is not a single one that would apply to me as an IR user.&amp;nbsp; There is only a very small number of threads that are generic civil questions that could apply to a user of any of these.&amp;nbsp; These types of threads could stay here, but the remainder could go under separate subforums until such time that you completely merge the 3 software packages, which I am assuming won't happen in the short term future.
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Chris
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: Subforums</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/21114?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:17:23 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:2d6e93a6-98c2-4f39-87b3-a25eb32792c2</guid><dc:creator>Mike Otte</dc:creator><description>&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img src="http://communities.bentley.com/Themes/default/images/icon-quote.gif"&gt; &lt;strong&gt;dsilverm:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; 
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'I don't have time&amp;nbsp;to sort through this.'&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; 
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I completely agree 
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: Subforums</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/21095?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:07:19 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:5d597dd9-2149-4669-85c1-041cf024c42e</guid><dc:creator>dsilverm</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;
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. 
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&amp;nbsp;I used the newsgroups for 3 basic purposes: 
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1. To get help 
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2. to hear about bugs and workarounds 
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3. to get tips 
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Your much simpler approach has made my life simpler too. Now, I only use this for item 1. I don't do items 2 &amp;amp; 3&amp;nbsp;because I look at the topic subjects and say,&amp;nbsp;'I don't have time&amp;nbsp;to sort through this.'&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; 
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&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img src="http://communities.bentley.com/Themes/default/images/icon-quote.gif"&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Phil Chouinard:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Be Communities gives us a great opportunity to &amp;quot;start over&amp;quot; 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 &amp;quot;only GEOPAK&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;only InRoads&amp;quot;, or &amp;quot;only MX&amp;quot; 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.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt; 
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: Subforums</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/20997?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 07:15:29 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:a8dc6db0-060b-48ed-9a76-9188df929c7e</guid><dc:creator>derricke.gray</dc:creator><description>This is already happening. It began with the inclusion of the Quantity Manager application in the Bentley Civil Products, and in XM we included the InRoad's Roadway Designer application in GEOPAK. You will see more of this &amp;quot;sharing&amp;quot; of applications across all product lines as time goes by.&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: Subforums</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/20982?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 04:44:30 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:32a9c759-cbcb-4d71-8a79-037eddf0cc32</guid><dc:creator>Zdenko Novkovic</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;
It is good to see that some things actually do get better! I can only presume then that the three referenced platforms will have interfunctionality at some point, sooner rather than later.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: Subforums</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/20980?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 04:30:17 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:5336f4b1-e12b-4950-ae58-6bba1b91537b</guid><dc:creator>Phil Chouinard</dc:creator><description>Be Communities gives us a great opportunity to &amp;quot;start over&amp;quot; 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 &amp;quot;only GEOPAK&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;only InRoads&amp;quot;, or &amp;quot;only MX&amp;quot; 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.&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>