Here in Community I use the WYSIWYG Text format control to answer questions and other quick text entries.
But for longer posts when I want formatting or if I am building incrementally over several days I use the Plain text (supports markdown) control because it's quicker and easier to post an article I have written offline. In this post I share my workflow and a set of tools to publish long read posts.
When posts are displayed on the DC homepage they only show the first part of each post. This part is known as the teaser, or the trimmed version. The DC software does its best, but without being given any hint by you it can sometimes produce teasers that are of limited value, e.g. "Hi!"
When composing your post, the Preview button lets you see what the teaser will look like. For example, here's the preview of an initial version of this post:
I know this has been suggested before but I wanted to bring it up again.
It would be very nice if we could "accept" an answer to our questions which would result in the question showing "answered" in the index and possibly move the "accepted answer" to the top of the answer chain.
There is no obvious way to provide feedback to the development community. In order to find the topic to find open discussions, I had to search for "feedback".
There should be links in standard places; without doing research these place probably include: menu, front page, footer.
I noticed a lot of sites these days support use of Gravatar user profile pictures so your profile picture can follow you around from site to site, could we support this here?
Also there appears to be some HTML bug in the user profile edit page, when I click on the 'edit' tab I see options to edit the profile for a fraction of a second before this closes and I am unable to edit anything.
Most of my comments/contributions are personal, not reflecting the point-of-view of my current client. My WRC account is normally 'connected' with my clients email domain (e.g. csc.com).
I would like to set a personal account for DC so I can receive the digests in my own email box.
More sophisticated, I would like to use more then one email per account where I can specify on which address I want to receive DC digests
When looking at a single post there is no easy navigation to the overview of the category containing the post. I.e. having clicked on a single feedback post, there is no link back to the Feedback category overview.
it shows very nicely in bold if there are new comments. However, there is no link to jump directly to the first new comment. The word comment should be a link to that.
I'm very proud of the Worldwide Response Center - an excellent group of men and women - and I am interested to hear from you about your experience using the WRC. There are always better ways for us to serve you.
I'm also very excited about the Developer Community which we're bringing to you to give you an opportunity to connect with groups and individuals in the InterSystems community. Let us know what you think and how we can improve it in order to serve you better.
We are playing with InterSystems iKnow analytics against Developer Community posts and introduced the new dashboard, which shows Top 60 concepts for all the posts:
Before this Developer Community existed a Google Group named intersystems-public-cache was an active forum for people working with Caché and related products.
Every time I try to post a link I forget to change the dropdown and get the error "Path not found". Honestly I'm not even sure when an "internal path" would ever be used. Can we please remove that option or default it to URL instead?
Hi, - Is it possible for users to select their preferred date format ? For example, if you click on Connect > Communities you are shown, for each community, something like: 'Latest Post: 01/14/2016 -'
I'd prefer the date in dd/mm/yyyy format (rather than mm/dd/yyyy).
I’m the new InterSystems Community Manager and responsible for everything within the InterSystems Developer Community itself including Community Events, Content and Projects etc.
Please feel free to point all the criticism to me along with suggestions of course!
Our team is working now on fixing some evident and annoying UI problems to make this place comfortable for all the InterSystems customers and new developers to discuss InterSystems related problems, questions, techology and projects.
The list of tags is pretty long, and it will probably get longer. I guess it could be a tag cloud somewhere on the page, but I'm not sure where. I bet others in the Community can suggest good ways to do this!