Forum Design

Hi,
I would like to design and implement the SDN forum kind of system. Please let me know how to design the forum system.
Query:-
1) Data base is required to design form or web page?
2) How to use KM system for the forum?
3) where Trex play a role in the forum system?
4) How the Verticals can be design?
5) How to store the query and reply from the user?
Please suggest.
Thanks & Regards,
Sanjeev Mourya

Hi Sanjeev,
there is a discussion forum iView (which is used in collaboration rooms) in EP. Maybe you can use it. My experience is, that in most cases the features of this iView are not sufficiant.
SAP plans to include the SDN forum in one of the following Service Packs. Maybe you should wait some more weeks?
HTH,
Carsten

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Comcast employees must be authorized to post in the forum in an official capacity. Employees posting here have their names in red and are designated as employees. Names not in red are customers. This is done to protect customers and for assurance that they are dealing with a Comcast employee.
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Custom Gallery/Forum Design

Ok, I have written a gallery that allows gallery owners to create/maintain albums, provide images along with their initial comments for the image and allow other users that has been authorized by the owner to add images/comments. In addition to this, other permitted gallery users may browse albums within the gallery as well as forum style comments on either an individual image or on an album. Both image lists and comments lists for images and albums are paginated. <<1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10>>. Comments are listed in a separate IFRAME both on the album page and on an Image page.
My design problem here is that I have created an additional module that allows users to "watch" a particular image or album (or perhaps gallery). When the user chooses this option, they are presented a watch list link following successful login. This link will lead them to a page that lists their items of interest as follows:
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3. [Album - Jill's Wedding pics][Image - Just Married](2 additions)
to increase the complexity, a watch may specify updates (If watching a gallery, then any changes to album titles or any changes to the descriptions of any images within any album of that gallery. If watching an album, then any changes to the initial image's description or the pixel data itself within that album.)
AND/OR
new additions (If watching a gallery, then any new albums created under that gallery or any new images created under any album of that gallery or any new comments placed under any album of that gallery or any new comments placed under any image of any album of that gallery. If watching an album, then any new images or comments placed on that album or any new comments placed on any existing image under that album. If watching an image, then any new comments for that image).
Now the problem is:
When they click on the watches link, I need to display the list of watched items as in the previous example. This list is to be paginated and each list item is a hyperlink to the given item (an image page if it points to an image, or comment page if it points to a comment.). What do I do from here? I mean if they've just logged on and only want to see what's new or updated, then they would likely just want to simply click through the paginated watch items, but what if they're looking at an image watch item in the list and would like to know what previous comment the latest comment item is in response to? I guess what I'm getting at, is can anyone think of a better design than the following?:
e.g., Watch X = [Album - Jill's Wedding pics][Image - You may kiss the bride!](56 additions)
------------- image page --------------------
You may kiss the bride!
<< prev img | next img >>
image
image comment
-- comments section (IFRAME) --
comment 1
comment 2
comment 3
<< prev 1 2 3 4 5 next >>
-- /comments section --
<< prev watch X | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | next watch X>>
------------- /image page --------------------
To add even more complexity, these watches are only based on items not yet viewed by the watch owner. This is determined by using the last logged in date of the watch owner and date the watch item was added/updated.
I've been racking my brain over this for weeks and continuously running myself in circles. This post is my last resort as I take way too much pride in using my own ideas to achieve an efficient and intuitive design. This time however, I've decided to give up on it as it may prevent me from ever completing this personal project of mine. Even so much as a "Why are you trying to do it that way? Why not just ...." is greatly appreciated. My own sounding board is waterlogged, I think and just some fresh point of view could be of great help. Perhaps somebody knows of a good pattern that might fit this.
By the way, this is all web app, (Not Swing, or perhaps it wouldn't be so difficult to think out) so intuitive design is of great importance here since many things web-enabled cannot be so easily intuitively presented as might be achieved in Swing.
Oh and I don't expect anybody to kill themselves trying to answer this question, much less even consider answering it except for those rare individuals that can't bare to watch a challenging problem go unsolved (yeah I mean you guys - the Rubik's cube guys/gals).
thanks in advance.

1. I want to be able to watch album pages andimage
pages for new comments.What do you mean by "watch"? By watch I mean in the same deal as watching a topic in this forum.
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2. I want to be able to watch album pages for new
images and comments.How is this different from number 1?This one is only watching for new image entries and/or comments on the particular album, whereas the first one covers this as well as comment entries on images.
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3. I want to be able to page through the newentries
for which the item is being watched and view each
entry (be it an image page or a comment entry) bythe
simple click of a hyper link.Is this a problem?Well, herein lies the dilemma I've been struggling with myself to find a solution to. In an album page there are lists of images grouped by months and then by years, with the current view expanded on a particular month wherein that expanded list is also paginated (that is prev 10 images for that month and next 10 images for that month). Oh and that particular month is also displayed in a particular year that is also expanded.
The thing that I argue with myself is a problem is that this page is already quite busy, and to add another pagination navigator for a watch on that album page which would reference new image entries and/or comment entries just seems to be unintuitive and cumbersome. This is why I have posted to the Patterns & OO Design forum, because I cannot seem to find a way to think outside of this little box of mine.
For now, I'm thinking of simply noting the number of new entries for each particular watch in a display table and then let the user go on to find these entries for themselves.
I think the most important part here is to simply let the user know that since they have last visited, there have been:
6 new images with a combined total of 8 new comments as well as 3 comments on the album in [Album - Bob's Fishing Pics],
5 new comments in [Album - Jill's Wedding Pics][You may Kiss the Bride!] and
3 new comments in [Album - Jill's Wedding Pics][Just Married!]
I think perhaps I've attempted to make it a bit too complex by trying to hyperlink those items to a paginated view in which they could navigate only the new entries in order to get a quick review before returning to whatever they were doing prior to logging in to this site.
I think a quick re-design based on this post is the simplicity I've been looking for. The more I think about it, the more it fits because the entries wether image entries or comment entries are sorted by date from newest to oldest anyhow and so if I simply hyperlinked [Album - Bob's Fishing Pics] to image page [Album - Bob's Fishing Pics][First Image entry since last logged in], they could use the already existing image page navigator to go forward or backward to review the others. In addition to this I can add an indicator to indicate that it is new since they last visited and until they log out.

What's wrong with the new forum design.

Thought I'd kick off the list here.
1. O.P. can award a correct answer to themselves.
2. Status stays hidden unless checked, making it hard on both newbies and those trying to help them
3. No advanced search (that I can find) I've given up even trying to look, and users aren't even aware of it
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…many more but I'd like to let others add to the list
BTW I give 2 thumbs up to the improved post formatting options, but that was a long overdue catch up to other forums.

Don't have time to answer all of this, but here's a start...
1. O.P. can award a correct answer to themselves.
Useful when they've come up with the correct answer themselves. (OPs can't award themselves points, though.)
3. No advanced search (that I can find)
https://discussions.apple.com/search.jspa (or click the blue Search button in the top right of any page without entering any text in the search field)
4. Difficult to see what you have or haven't replied to
The equivalent of My Posts is here:
8. Where is the forum how-to and guide?
https://discussions.apple.com/static/apple/tutorial/index.html
10. I hate the default of sending email advisories and Safari messages of answers in the forum. My Mail Inbox is inundated and I am getting constant pop-ups interrupting my work on my Mac.
https://discussions.apple.com/static/apple/tutorial/email.html
Good luck!

Is The New Forum Design In Transition?

I've got to say, the forum just feels broken as it is.
And I'm not just talking about little formatting glitches needing cleaning up. I'm talking about the fairly significant number of features that have gone missing, such as listing who a reply is to, listing the post and points counts, etc.
More broken than it did.
My question is this:
Is what we see what we're going to get, or are we in transition to something better?
-Noel

Dave Merchant wrote:
Yes, and yes!
Thanks, Dave - I guess. It's the terminology that bothers me I think... This is not just a "re-skin".
"Skin" implies colors, shapes, sizes - but not functionality.
This recent change is therefore more than a "re-skin" of the old forum. I have to say, I don't mind the colors and layout - it's usable. And I understand the need for modernization, though I didn't see a real need to change the look before getting the functionality working better.
We seem to have entered the era of UI simplification. Not long ago someone somewhere came up with the term "cognitive overload", which always seemed like a backhanded way of saying "most folks are too stupid to deal with a lot of stuff on the screen at once", and so everyone began simplifying their user interfaces. Hell, Microsoft even stopped making their Windows OS actually do windows. Kind of a slap in the face to people who yearn for more and bigger monitors just so they can get more stuff up there for use "at a glance".
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-Noel

New Forum Design

Hi OTN,
May I suggest that all new posts be defaulted to a "Question", since most of the posts are questions. If it is not then that's the time you give us 15 minutes to change it to something else.
Thank you for your consideration.
Bob

Yes, William I guess you missed it.
In the upgraded version of forum, OP can choose to post his thread as 'Question' or regular discussion. For Question thread, OP can later on mark the question as answered and assign 10 pst to one correct answer post and 5 pst to two helpful posts. The idea is when you post your question as 'Question' you have pst which will make people more likely to reply and answer it.
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TERRIBLE new forum design...

What is it with these guys??!!
The previous discussions board was intuitive and easy to navigate, it was a pleasure to communicate with other FCP users around the world...
The new design is a huge pain in the arse, lacks information, is full of amateurish glitches, and makes me feel like i'm wasting my time.
Pah!
'If it ain't broke... don't fix it...'

Looks to me like they have gone back in time. If you showed both formats to anyone, 99.9% would say that the old format was the new & improved. The .1% would be the people that came up with this design!
"If it ain't broke, don't fix it"

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When I come here to log-in and hit this and the PremPro forums, I'm always first sent to screen with a few ... like 5? ... threads, and then have to hunt to find and hit more and something else to FINALLY get to the whole forum ... which is WHY I COME HERE. THE WHOLE FORUM.
I realize I'm shouting ... but it didn't used to be such a STUPID 'opening screen'. Why did they come up with a new way to irritate their clients and waste everbody's time? Jeepers ...
ADOBE STAFF: I'm talking about you here, just in case you missed it ...
Neil (feeling a bit better for now ... until the NEXT time I waste time getting on here ...)

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Neil

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[email protected] wrote:
> This forum is difficult to navigate for some of us who are used to
> forums designed like Audio Masters. Since Adobe is considered a
> leader in software, why not offer a better BB?
Use a newsreader instead of the web interface and be happy.
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The new forums design is running for quite a while already, but I still don't understand how the search function could pass quality testing and has not been updated, yet. Did that department sleep? I'm in the Photoshop forum for example and I want to search this forum. To do this I first have to to do an overall search, then go to more options, and then scroll painfully to a list of 100+ entries that I have to view through a small tiny window. I'm sorry to say that, but this is absolute crap. What's the problem? Why can't Adobe implement a "search this forum" option or at least make the listbox for the forum selection larger? I do not expect something like this from Adobe! When will this finally change? This is really frustrating.
Marcus

You can. But it needs to be easier to find.
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This will bring up another search area. You will see all products with a down arrow. Click on view all products and take your pick.
I am sure someone will point out a faster route to go.
MergeThis wrote:
I would also prefer to search within one product (or even a sub-forum), not ALL Adobe products.
Man, whoever thought THAT was a great idea?
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I have started a discussion in this thread, Now I am not able to see my post in the forums list. What happened to my post?
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1010756
Edit: I found that when I choose "All Discussions" my post is gets hide some where. Is this is the right behavior the new forum design or an mysterious one. But when I choose "Open Questions" It gets displayed.
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SabrinaD wrote:
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;)

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HI,
I used to enjoy learning from this forum and the web forum.... but lately the posts are dwindling and I'm wondering if there is another set of forums that anyone knows about??? I'd like to pop in to some of the others to see what activity is going on. Anyone know of other forums, design based?
Thanks,
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stan,
>I don't feel the training I received in college really prepared me for the real world
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Too many people today know zip about type, printing, paper, ink and other production details.
Too many people think "computer" first, and it doesn't even occur to them that maybe it's easier (and more realistic) to photograph and scan a particular kind of detail than to try and create it in Photoshop or Illustrator.
Too many people are more concerned by how many different applications they can figure out how to launch and use (even if remedially), than to understand basic design principles.
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