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6-Mar-09 12:43

Pete O'Hanlon wrote:
a complete and utter dipweed

It doesn't take much to get you started, does it? Laugh | :laugh:

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Yusuf5-Mar-09 9:13

Yusuf

5-Mar-09 9:13

In almost all the forms at the top, there is this "view unanswered questions in <forum name>".

Is this suppose to return only unanswered questions? when I ever I click it, I get top x entries on from the forum regardless whether they have an answer posted or not. In some cases, a post may have multiple answers, still it is shown in this list.

Yusuf

Re: view unanswered questions

Pete O'Hanlon5-Mar-09 10:13

Pete O'Hanlon

5-Mar-09 10:13

They aren't questions without any answers - it's view questions that haven't been marked as answered.

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Re: view unanswered questions

Yusuf5-Mar-09 10:38

Yusuf

5-Mar-09 10:38

Pete O'Hanlon wrote:
it's view questions that haven't been marked as answered.

Is that mean both 'Good Answer' and 'Bad Answer' qualify as an answer? [asking self]
Ok, I see, if an answer has either one it will not show up in the list.

Thanks pete,

Yusuf

Re: view unanswered questions

Chris Maunder7-Mar-09 10:19

Forum navigational aid [Feature request thing]

7-Mar-09 10:19

Gone.

cheers,
Chris Maunder

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martin_hughes5-Mar-09 8:42

5-Mar-09 8:42

I've had a thought...

I tend to jump between several favourite forums. For the more popular ones (Lounge, Linq and .Net 3.5, General Discussions) which have "hard" links in the header bar, this is easy. However, some forums I like to venture into regularly (like Java, MySql and Graphics) are a bit harder to get to. Well ok, not hard, but they do involve Mousing over Message Boards > Clicking on All Message Boards > Scrolling down the list to find the board I want > Clicking on the board name.

How about something like this:

In the Left Nav bar, just below ANNOUNCEMENTS and above CHAPTERS, pop in a little box called Forum Quick Links (or something not quite so poor). The box would consist of a list box and two buttons (a "+" and a "-"). Clicking the "+" button would pop up a list of all available forums on CP and clicking an item in this list would add that entry to the list box. That list box entry would then be a hyperlink to the relevant forum. Clicking the "-" button would remove the currently selected entry(ies) in the list box from the list box (might need to be a check list box to allow entries to be selected without following the hyperlink? Perhaps there's a better solution than that?). These entries would be tied to a member's profile to enable selections to be saved between visits.

[Quick addition]

Yes - I know that most of the forums are listed in the Nav bar when you're browsing the forums, but because the Nav bar changes based on the page being viewed I've never gotten used to using it. Also, it's a bit too cluttered Smile | :)

print "http://www.codeproject.com".toURL().text

Ain't that Groovy?

Luc Pattyn5-Mar-09 9:03

5-Mar-09 9:03

martin_hughes wrote:
I've never gotten used to using it

I use it all the time, it is just fine by me.

I see two minor possible improvements:

1. make it customizable, that is a user-dependent forum opt-out (only to be used to suppress forums one is not interested in; new forums would be visible by default), no need to change or fix the order, unless CP staff decides to start messing them up again (remember the three columns on top of some forums?)

2. show the same forum nav bar, not the home nav bar, when in the "Reply to Message" page;
obviously force a new tab then, I want to look up something, not throw away half a reply.

Smile | :)

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martin_hughes5-Mar-09 9:14

5-Mar-09 9:14

Quick experiment time!

Without using bookmarks or other linking mechanisms external to CP and making sure that CodeProject - just for the purposes of this experiment! - isn't your home page:

1) Close your browser
2) Open it and go to the CP home page
3) Count how many clicks it takes you to get to the MySql forum

With a bit of scrolling and visual scanning I can do it in two. I'd prefer one, though, and not have to scroll or visually scan the page to find what I want.

print "http://www.codeproject.com".toURL().text

Ain't that Groovy?

Luc Pattyn5-Mar-09 9:33

5-Mar-09 9:33

Yes, I'd rather have the forum's left nav bar on the home page instead of the chapters and stuff that is there, but I understand why most of those are there.

If, I repeat if, I enter the CodeProject site through the home page, then my first navigation is using the Message dropdown and I choose C#, from then on everything is one click away.

I too like a minimal-click policy but you probably can't satisfy everyone. And so far a lot of things that could be personalized, just aren't; probably to keep code, maintenance and support simple.

BTW: I'm sure you are aware of this, some browsers, e.g. FireFox, offer a toolbar where you can add buttons to several pages, I have more than 10 of those, extremely useful. That single feature is sufficient to switch from IE to FF!

Smile | :)

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martin_hughes5-Mar-09 9:41

5-Mar-09 9:41

Luc Pattyn wrote:
BTW: I'm sure you are aware of this, some browsers, e.g. FireFox, offer a toolbar where you can add buttons to several pages, I have more than 10 of those, extremely useful. That single feature is sufficient to switch from IE to FF!

It's a good point - I don't use my browser's functionality to its full extent. Maybe I should, but then again if I switch to another computer it entails faffing around trying to set the thing up the same as the other, or importing settings, or wondering why settings don't import & etc. I must be getting old, because my patience with that sort of thing runs out pdq! Smile | :)

print "http://www.codeproject.com".toURL().text

Ain't that Groovy?

Luc Pattyn5-Mar-09 9:59

5-Mar-09 9:59

martin_hughes wrote:
my patience with that sort of thing runs out

yes, the burden of progress can be heavy. Big Grin | :-D

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Chris Maunder5-Mar-09 13:31

5-Mar-09 13:31

How about we add the quicklinks box and have a link in every page "Add this to my Quick Links"?

You would then be able to manage your quicklinks through the 'My bookmarks' page

cheers,
Chris Maunder

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martin_hughes5-Mar-09 13:44

Suggestion For After Dark Room Name

5-Mar-09 13:44

Well that sounds very good indeed. Would there be a link up top in My Bookmarks for ~~Forums~~ QuickLinks like there is for Articles and Members?

print "http://www.codeproject.com".toURL().text

Ain't that Groovy?

Dalek Dave5-Mar-09 4:12

Dalek Dave

5-Mar-09 4:12

Not my Idea.

Williamnw came up with 101

I vote for him!

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Re: Suggestion For After Dark Room Name

Chris Maunder5-Mar-09 14:34

Re: Suggestion For After Dark Room Name

5-Mar-09 14:34

I need something more descriptive and memorable

cheers,
Chris Maunder

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Pete O'Hanlon6-Mar-09 2:22

Pete O'Hanlon

6-Mar-09 2:22

Chris Maunder wrote:
I need something more descriptive and memorable

Ferrets. That's pretty memorable.

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Re: Suggestion For After Dark Room Name

⁷³Zeppelin7-Mar-09 4:23

⁷³Zeppelin

7-Mar-09 4:23

Cubicle Space?

Cubicle Graffiti?

Link buttons busted again

Dan Neely5-Mar-09 4:08

Dan Neely

5-Mar-09 4:08

FF3.06. Pasting a URL nothing happens. The link[^] button does nothing. THe link button tries to navigate to a different page.

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Re: Link buttons busted again

Chris Maunder5-Mar-09 16:20

Bug while changing display name

5-Mar-09 16:20

FireFox 3.0.6 on Vista, and 3.0.5 on MacOS X, and everything works perfectly.

Do you have add-ins installed? Javascript disabled?

cheers,
Chris Maunder

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Xmen Real 4-Mar-09 15:05

Xmen Real

4-Mar-09 15:05

Everytime I try to change my display name, it shows a message "The name you supplied has already been registered. Please choose another, or try retrieving your password if that is your member name".

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Re: Bug while changing display name

Chris Maunder4-Mar-09 15:38