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• Code Formating after Forum Software Upgrade

  Hello SCN Forum Administrators,
  it seems that all code formating which was done with the
  [code]
  Tags was not automatically converted during the Forum Software Upgrade. What can I do to correct my code in the Forum Topic Re: Display ALV GRID with PHP? The message was posted by myself but I can't edit it.
  Best regards
  Gregor

  Hi all,
  the new forum version does contain a filter that can handle the old [code] tags. The problem was that we had to turn it off because it permanently ran into Stackoverflow errors and thus bringing the whole landscape into trouble.
  Now we have to convert all the old [code] markup in all messages with the new {code} markup. We are currently testing this.
  In other words: [code] is no longer supported, the usage of {code} is recommended.
  Regards,
  Michael

• It's a joy to see the forum software preserve links in copied text

  It's a joy to see the forum software preserve live links in text inserted by copy-and-paste.
  http://forums.adobe.com/message/1934083#1934083

  Shouldn't the IP address be on the box you bought the machine in? If you have the box, take it to the police as evidence that it's your machine. If I were you, I would set the firmware password when you get it back, but make sure you have the password written down in a safe place. If you forget it, there's only two ways to reset it. Either pay $400+ for the tool that can do it, or pay almost nothing for Apple to do it, I think it depends on where you live. The firmware password is this encrypted password and it can't be hacked either. The password prevents anyone from booting the machine into recovery mode, thus preventing them from restoring the computer to factory settings or performing any other functions. It's not stored in the hard drive so replacing that will be of no use either.
  I hope you get your Mac back and I hope this was helpful!

• Can i use osx lion server as a server for my online forum business? if so, what else do i need to get up and running. i know i need forum software. any suggestions?

  hello fellow apple lovers. I am in desperate need of advice. I am going to be starting an online forum business in the coming weeks. I was wondering if osx lion server would be able to function as my business server. I also need mac compatible forum software. Any suggestions? Thanks, Bryan

  If you have to use old Digidesign now Avid stuff, try to get hold of a DIGI 003 or a MBox pro. The 002 really sounds horrific (no offense) and I doubt it will be of any use in ML, even the MBox pro sounds better……..
  By the way, I thought that since ProTools 9 one could use any hardware of choice in combo. If you must use PTools, I would defiantly look for a more up to date hardware and Avid wouldn't be my first choice!
  Have a nice day!

• Forum software problem

  Is anyone going to fix this forum software? If I've browsed to the posts from a week ago, say the 4th page of postings, and view a post; when I click 'back' in firefox, I'm taken to the first page of the forum (ie the most current posts). I hope we don't have to live this this...

  Hi,
  agreed ,  these forum needs a bit of an overhaul, maybe a nice shiny new flex based one with cocomo(or what ever they are calling it these days), just think you could interact with people directly exchange thoughts and code to quickly establish solutions to requests for help. Now that would be a real community based support system.
  David

• Forum software in java

  Hello everyone,
  First of all i am not sure if i should post this here, sorry if it is the wrong place.
  I have been googling looking for forums software made in java but i could not find anything at all. I was wondering if any of you could tell me a good forum software i could use for a web site (open source if possible...)
  Thanks in advance

  Actually this is a rather nice product. It's the custom features created by (or for) Sun that cause the problems.

• The new forum software

  Folks,
  Lets take a vote. Do you just love (10) or utterly despise (-10) the new forum software?
  -8
  Against
  1. It's kitchy.
  2. It's buggy.
  3. Source code is HARDER to read than ever.
  4. They should have adopted wiki markup.
  For
  Ummm. RTF is kinda cute, I suppose.

  i like the look and feel, but i have to agree that the speed is not wonderful.
  of course i have a lot more tolerance for slow these days, since i became
  a full time DBA and some of our runs literally take days.

• Discussion forum software on Snow Leopard Server?

  Does anyone know if there is any discussion forum software included with Snow Leopard Server? Specifically, something like this support system itself? I know there's the wiki and the iChat server but they don't really seem to support this kind of open discussion system and I need something like this. I'm sure I could install something like Simple Machines Forum on the web server but, well, it's frankly too complex for most users if you ask me. Thanks in advance!

  nope, nothing like this is included. you'll have to install your own. there are many options out there.

• Who the Hell wrote this crappy forum software?

  Ya, I knowm it says Jive.
  This forum refuses to work with Opera, either for Windblows or Solaris 10 x86 Unix.  This area for entering the post does not show up.
  I had to start Exploder and I HATE Exploder.
  What is even more stupid is the catch-22 in that the forum software is used for the feedback.  If the forum is broken, how the Hell is someone supposed to be able to let anyone know that it is broken.
  If Adobe wants great forum software, they should use what AVSForum uses.  It works with any and all browsers.

  dave milbut wrote:
  it's not the tools, it's the carpenters.
  Oh, it's the tools too, people just like to make excuses for and rationalize for "cool" stuff.  If it's simple AJAX and DHTML without too much crazy going on (i.e. not these forums), you might get away okay on a web site.  I'm not opposed to it on a website as long as it always works...
  I'm speaking mostly from an RIA (rich internet application) use case, which gets much more complicated than a stupid website.  A 'forum' like this blurs the distinction a bit, especially when they try to do the crap they're attempting in this jiveware.  AJAX isn't well suited for creating real RIAs, for sure.  (Here comes the AJAX fanboys to dispute...)  Once people realize that these 'frameworks' they're using (because they've already discovered that using AJAX/DHTML/DOM crap themselves sucks @$$) don't address the need to test, update, re-build, re-deploy, and test your "AJAX application" (it's like saying ".bat application") EVERY single time you have a new version of a browser come out--or a new type of browser entirely--perhaps they'll start to realize what the hidden cost of such muppetry is going to be over time.  (And I can't wait for the browser wars to heat up even more again.) 
  Of course you could just "hope" that most of your users browsers will continue to work correctly (maybe almost 100% even will! lol), without testing and updating if needed, but then you get Jiveware.
  Don't get me wrong, with Jiveware, it's most certainly the carpenters more so than anything.  It may even be possible to develop decent 'forum' software using AJAX hacks (sparingly), since a "forum" is arguably not such a complex application.  (They are however more complex than most people imagine.)  But crap tools tend to bring out the fail in the term "incompetent failure jiveware scripter".   Crap tools reveal the difference between someone who doesn't know what they're doing at all (jiveware jives), and someone who actually does have some idea of what they're doing more clearly than good tools do.

• Is the forum software falling apart?

  Yesterday I posted a note about the stuck communications counter, which happened again, but this post was nowhere to be found and still has not appeared anywhere. And apparently, others make the same experiences. Seems like there are some problems with the internal forum notification system.
  I think some confirmation or note from the forum administration whether or not this is a known issue would be necessary.

  Dude        ! wrote:
  Maybe what the forum management needs is someone in charge with an IT management background understanding the needs of IT professionals when exchanging information. My impression so far is that the people in charge of this forum are some sort of social media analysts, perhaps playing around with Facebook and Twitter all day long. I mean, nothing personal, but the forum software priorities and quality acceptance hardly meets the current community expectation of what the software should do or even how it works or looks like. And it does not even play nicely with any of the new-age computer devices.
  Good point.  I was looking at the installation docs for Jive yesterday, and the thought occurred to me ... how many forum admins (perhaps, "especially Jive based forums") have, by the very nature of the forum subject, a community that is capable of reading and understanding the documentation of the forum software?  Who are professionally equipped to do the admins job themselves?  In other words, who are quite capable (and willing?) to back-check and fact-check claims about the capabilities of the forum software ...
  As I move about other technical support forums, I seem to see a lot more of whatever is used by forums.virtualbox.org, www.unix.com, etc.  Just good, basic forum software.  Nothing fancy, and certainly no attempt at being "social media".   At this point, I think a case could be made for throwing out the idea of 'backward compatibility'.  Just archive the current content, and move to a more appropriate platform with a link to the archives.

• Forum software is buggy

  i just posted a topic and after submitting it i was taken to a page showing what i wrote with a link to go back to the topics list. that link is incorrect. it takes me to a 404 page. the link generated is:
  http://www.oracle.com/forum.jsp?forum=29
  but it should be:
  Community Feedback (No Product Questions)

  This forum software is even slower than I am. :-) Impossible!Duh; see those reply times? The moment your reply showed up
  I replied. So there :-P
  kind regards,
  Jos

• Forum software 'upgrade'

  This has to be the most useless forum 'upgrade' that Adobe have ever managed. Heaven only knows how we're supposed to keep track of anything at all now... and yes I have complained about it in the correct place - and I'm not the only one, by any means. What on EARTH were they playing at?

  SteveG(AudioMasters) wrote:
  emmrecs wrote:
  Whilst we're discussing this "marvellous new forum software", has anyone else experienced the "feature" that their "real" name is now displayed as the author of a post even if their "screen" name is still retained in their profile?
  Yes - but that's only for you, just in case you've forgotten who you are... Everybody else sees your screen name.
  Bob Howes wrote:
  Some of the criticisms of your new software are things that are just a pain in the posterior.  This one should be a deal breaker because it makes these forums totally useless for their purpose.  Give this JIVE rubbish the push and buy a proper forum software like vBulletin or Invision based on php.  This is just making Adobe look completely and utterly clueless.
  Quite. What Adobe simply don't get is what people actually want and need from the forums in the vast majority of instances. People aren't looking for a social interaction site like Facebook, where you have to 'follow' people and 'like' what they say (noticed the 'like' buttons here now?). They simply want somewhere where they can ask a question and get an answer. This means that the questions, and the responses, have to be transparent - and the reply history has to be visible.
  What this means is that Jive is completely irrelevant as a 'solution'. Even as social software, this sucks. So why are Adobe persisting with this rubbish - unless there's some sort of a shady back-door arrangement going on????
  Thanks Steve!
  And yes, I wholeheartedly agree with what you write above!  Unfortunately, this "connected" world seems to be what big organisations believe their users/customers/clients need/want/can't possibly manage without!

• Forum software glitch using id numbers

  Last night I posted a reply to someone's question and I noticed that the forum was going
  through a phase where it was ignoring people's nicknames and just using id numbers. So the forum software posted the
  answer under my id number not my nickname. Then today I see it went back to nicknames.
  When it converts to nicknames, the messages sent under the id number become invisible.
  The poster would have to go in via the control panel to see the original posting as one way
  to find such a message. I just thought I'd mention it that some messages were possibly effectively lost.
  Edited by: lake on Dec 27, 2010 10:53 AM

  Hi,
  That's defniitely not the first time that's happened: Now i'm 115867
  Sometimes, I'm just 503936 and other times I'm my email address! Like I say in the above thread, how can a SSO glitch change my handle? Stuuuuuuuuupid forum software!
  Andy

• Forum software

  Sorry if this has been posted before but could someone point
  me to a good
  link or demo of some forum software, specifically where a
  moderator can
  check all posts before allowing them for general view on the
  forum pages.
  Needs to be asp/vbscript and easily configurable.
  Many thanks

  Thanks for the reply, I have taken a look and it's very
  interesting.
  When a forum is moderated, does that mean that ALL new
  postings are seen by
  a moderator only initially, and then can be released ontoi
  the forum if
  deemed suitable?
  Thanks
  ": Nadia : ** Adobe Community Expert **"
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  http://www.snitz.com
  > PHP:
  http://www.phpbb.com/
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  http://www.adersoftware.com/index.cfm?page=cfbb
  > CF:
  http://www.cfcode.com/index.cfm/fuse/products.htm
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  http://www.yabbforum.com/
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  > "dave" <[email protected]> wrote in message
  > news:ep520h$lf8$[email protected]..
  >> Sorry if this has been posted before but could
  someone point me to a good
  >> link or demo of some forum software, specifically
  where a moderator can
  >> check all posts before allowing them for general
  view on the forum pages.
  >>
  >> Needs to be asp/vbscript and easily configurable.
  >>
  >> Many thanks
  >>
  >>
  >
  >

• Thanks Adobe! I LOVE this new forum software!

  As someone who belongs to many, many forums over the years, I've gone through a lot of forum software changes. Generally, the vocal majority raise heck about it, but eventually things settle down and people go about their regular forum use with little effort.
  These new forums are so much "easier on the eyes" than the mind-numbing sea of text we currently have. Some like the new colors, some hate it. Some like avatars & signatures, and some don't. But the reason you come here is for the information, and this new software WILL make it easier to find what you're looking for.
  Macworld.com switched to this very same software last year. They had an obscenely large user base, all of which voiced their opinions repeatedly, to the point where many simply stopped visiting until the switchover was complete. In general, those that don't like change tend to voice their opinions the loudest. The vast majority though, tend to keep quiet and roll with changes. Today, Macworld's forums are running just fine, offer a plethora of new features, and are more active than they ever were previously.
  I have no heavy interest in what Adobe does with these forums because I rarely visit the current ones - mostly because I find them absolutely unreadable. But I'm also betting I'll be using them a whole lot more once this switchover is complete. In fact, I KNOW I will.
  Rather than complaining about change in general, colors, icons, avatars, signatures, bloated code, or whatever silly reason some are coming up with, time would be better spent simply helping to find bugs with what is there. Once the bugs are worked out, Adobe will most likely start looking at "fine-tuning" the look & feel.

  > What I have noticed is that there is a totally different set of aesthetic values being exhibited here between the Users of the Adobe Professional Graphic Arts applications (Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign) and the people who are almost entirely geared to AV or to web site work and the use of the formerly Macromedia products (such as Dreamweaver).
  Ann, you may be correct. But if functionality is truly the most important feature of Adobe Forums, the WebX format falls dramatically short for my own applications:
  WebX screws any code or script posted, generally making it unusable. For this reason, the Script and Expression areas of the After Effects forum are virtually non-existent. Users go to other places to discuss these features, because it's not practical to do so on the current forums.
  A picture tells a thousand words. When new users come to the WebX forums and want to post a screen grab of their problem project, it's embarrassing to tell them they need to use an external image host to do so.
  Video tells ten thousand words. The ability to easily embed YouTube and other online video content into a post is not just a great convenience, it's a way to teach, inform and demonstrate within the forum, rather than sending users somewhere else mid-discussion.
  I share a number of your criticisms about the Jive Forums, but for me and the community which uses my frequented forums, the Jive system also offers features which are essential for productive use. As I suspect the new system, like the old, will evolve over time, I'm happy to embrace the positives of the change, and hope that any major problems can be resolved in time.