A note to the forum

There has been a lot of discussion recntly concerning how best to format text and listings for use on the forum. How to do white space, indents, bold, underlining, italics, etc. Having the ability to copy / paste snippets to/from the forum is certainly a valuable tool. Since we have to use a somewhat cumbersone editing tool to post / read stuff, I suggest that someone who is a Domino guru do a White Paper on how to best accomplish what we all perceive to be an important task. If we have to do a lot of HTML stuff just to get half-vast results, maybe there might be a better solution. There doesn't seem to be a good way to learn & test results without clogging up the old arteries.

Any suggestions?

Don Miller

C3 Inc.

Don,

Perhaps that Domino guru could tweak the search capabilities of the site too… I remember having long discussions on this subject with Jennifer, but it seemed nobody at Revelation knew enough to get things right.

- Oystein -

I realize I might come over a bit arrogant and superior in my last posting. It's just that I'm totally dependent on this site and the discussion databases. I search the discussion databases for useful information almost every day. It's very important for me that searching works well. And I'm certain others will agree with me on this. So when e.g the Site Search presents the items of its result list without a subject line that's a real … a … uh … I think you know what I mean.

- Oystein -

Oystein ..

You're not particularly arrogant .. stubborn, maybe, but smart too. There are a lot of Forum formats besides this one. It's threaded nature is nice but it's not a particularly good tool for program code. It's fine for text, notes, comments, etc. The search capability is, to say the least, weak (at least in comparison to others I use). The need to do HTLM stuff just to get simple results is pretty frustrating. One forum that I use a lot allows for the following in an easy, straightforward fashion. I'm not sure if all of this will come through well ..

URL Hyperlinking

. http://www.yoururl.com

. www.yoururl.com (Note that you can use the complete http: address or shorten it to the www.domain. . true hyperlinks url=http://www.yoururl.comyoururl.com/url . alternate style urlwww.yoururl.com/url E-mail links: . [email protected]/email Bold / Italics: . bthis is bold/b .. iitalics/i .. both biboth/i/b Bullets / Lists . unordered: . list . * This is first item . * This is the second . /list . Ordered lists. Use the list=A or list=1 Images: . encase the URL of the image imghttp:someplace.com/art…./img

Quoting:

. QUOTEAsk not what your country can do for you ../QUOTE. This is especially easy using standard windows cut/paste. It is block-quoted and set off nicely

And to deal with the current issue..

. Code Tags. This adds some <code> tags automatically to preserve formatting like the following: . CODE#!/usr/bin/perl . print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; . print "Hello World";/CODE All the stuff between the CODE and /CODE retains the original formatting (tabs, etc.)

The other advantage of this is that it doesn't mess things up the way HTML errors can.

Oh, well, we can all wish, can't we? BTW, you've been a busy beaver lately :}

Don

Don

This is the word from REV

It has the feel of a stressed person posting

Rev requests use private works for testing HTML

I'd be stressed too if I was in NJ/NY right now.

For the moment I'd suggest that hard disk space is very cheap, compared to IP/Knowledge that we are donating.

I guess it might be good to have a new forum dedicated to wish lists. At least that way all the feature requests would be in one place and REV wouldn't need to be frustrated by their own search engine trying to find them.

Ultimately it might be an idea to extract the forum stuff into an edited version ie Question - Ultimate solution, without so much of the process and dead end or plain wrong stuff inbetween. It might also be useful to edit the forum information into trouble shooting scripts. This would be a lot of work I know, but could be done on a incremental basis. And it would be a major value add - you could sell it like technet subscriptions.

Was it really worth starting a new main topic? Flat by Date list makes finding the active threads easy.

OI 3.7.5 is nearly here. Then maybe I can get works using my BIG client as a lever.

Scott

Information Age: Lots of information, no junk filter (Argh)

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