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To the moderators.....
Can you add ANGULAR2 as a tag for posts please
Peter
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.
On the homepage that we get when we go to https://community.intersystems.com/ there are three views, controlled by a set of buttons in the upper right:
Above is with the default view (the "house", i.e. the "home").
I think the text "Top posting" would be better expressed as "Top posts" (plural), or maybe even just "Posts" (because what does "Top" mean when I'm viewing, say, "most active" or "most viewed"?).
Also, when I pick the tag summary view ("tags" icon to the right of the "home" icon), the page doesn't offer me a way of switching to one of the other views ("home" or "compact"):
Hi, Community!
In 2017 we had 734 different contributors to Developer Community who posted articles and announcements, questions and answers.
This post is a compilation of Top Authors, Top Experts and Top Opinion Makers of InterSystems Developer Community in 2017.
It is a good guide "Who to Follow" in 2018.
And I'm glad to present these people!
Hi, Community!
Here is the digest of the best questions on InterSystems Data Platform in 2017.
In 2017 1,158 questions and here are Top 20 on most viewed, most voted and most commented.
Most viewed
WebSockets vs Long Polling vs Short Polling?, by Sean Connelly 2639
GitLab CI examples?, by Eduard Lebedyuk 2172
WebMethod - Issue with encoding (special character), by Murillo Braga 755
SHA256 Signing with RSA PSS padding, by Stefan Cronje 752
New Programming Language - Discussion, by Maks Atygaev 672
Managing UTF-8 characters on the database with a REST application, by Amir Samary 602
Hello,
Is is possible to reorder the comments so we see new comments at the top? At the moment its very hard to find a new comments since the order of the comments is always from oldest to newest, if you comment on the first comment then your comment will be at the top while making a new comment on the post will be at the bottom. Also marking new posts with a different background color or highlighting them would be convenient.
This would be very handy for posts that are getting more comments than can fit on one page or just posts with more comments in general.
Thank you
Hi, Community!
Today there are two main settings for your email notification subscriptions.
1. Subscribe to all new posts, all comments, all answers
You can do it in your subscription settings in the Content Types. Click on My Account, go to Subscriptions and click on Content types tab:
In this case, you'll get only one notification for every new article or question posted on DC and every answer and comment if you checked this option.
Here are some recipes with this option.
1. Receive all the new posts notifications (without answers and comments in it):
Turn on Post checkbox.
I searched fror "documenting classes" from the search button with no filtering. it naturally came back with 559 responses, but to me, the responses (and therefore the search) came without context.
for instance, one of the texts came back with:
Hi, Community!
We introduced new tags for the posts:
See the full list of tags.
Leave your requests for other new tags to introduce.
Is there a group for InterSystems IRIS? If not, can you create it?
I am logged in and cannot seem to edit my background information and some other attributes.
What gives?
Most likely I am doing something wrong but any help would be appreciated.
A lot of tools in InterSystems products are designed to help facilitate high availability solutions (Mirroring and ECP come to mind readily). Since a lot of concerns about these technologies are in a similar thread regarding High Availability, I believe it might be worthwhile to create a High Availability Group within the Developer's Community.
What thoughts do people have on the addition of such a group?
When starting a post, especially for the beginner there are a lot of buttons, check marks, icons etc. On some of them when you hover you get a very brief descriptions. In reading through some of the responses to the Developer Community Feedback there is a lot of good information.
Could one of the moderators, who know all the tricks put together a one or two page "cheat sheet?" or beginner guide?
This "Cheat Sheet" would be of great help!
I get the impression that there is a great push to encourage others to use the Developers Community.
I just noticed a new navigation item - "Back" now appears above the "Links side bar when viewing posts.
It is in the wrong font. Also it seems very odd place for this navigation item.
It alters the page layout by moving the content down & introducing more whitespace.
See image:
You may have already covered this in another place, but how does one insert "Relevant Articles?" in a post?
I am confused about the meaning of "rating".
Is it how good the post is?
I did a search on "Rating" and got a lot of hits, but none seems to answer my question, either that or I missed it.
It would be nice to have some basic documentation on questions like these.
I don't mean to be difficult and maybe I don't understand, but what is the reason for having a rating?
On the Links area:
"Youtube" should read "YouTube".
I just noticed that when I view this post of mine from a browser where I'm not logged in, none of the three embedded screenshot images appear:
https://community.intersystems.com/post/why-atelier-11s-compare-servers…
Is this intentional? Or a bug?
It's a general problem that feedback from users is often quite poor.
I was trying to find an article today that I knew had been posted about Wireshark installations causing problems with Studio and other Caché components. If I search the community for 'Wireshark install', the article I'm looking for does not even show up. I found it eventually in the text of one of the Digest post, but this is the article:
I know this has been requested before, but it's really annoying, especially in the Developer Community.
Here is my typical workflow:
1. Click "Developer Community" forum
2. Click "Post question".
3. Select "Developer Community" in Group dropdown.
4. Select "Developer Community" in Related Topic dropdown.
Yes, 3 out of 4 steps to post a new question here require me to select the same thing. It's frustrating. Here I go again!
I'm pretty sure that we used to be able to click on the logo at the top of the homepage in order to reload it:
But this no longer has a hyperlink, so I have to use my browser's reload facilities.
Was this change deliberate?
When using the search field on this site, sorting by 'Relevancy' shows same results as when sorting by 'Newest first', and it seems that results are really sorted by newest first. A bug maybe?
Regards,
Jiri
