Forum Improvement Suggestion

Does anyone here know how to contact the site moderator/administrator/developer? I can't find it in the FAQ and the contact links are either really general or require a login other than the one that gets me here.
Edited by: DougP on May 31, 2011 9:06 AM

I just found out that there is another forum for Feedback and Suggestions...
Community Feedback (No Product Questions)
Cheers,
Mehmet

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  • Suggestions for forum improvements

    Wishlist (in sequence of appearence):
    <ol>
    <li> [Distinction between answeredsolved closedunsolved functionality|Suggestions for forum improvements]
    <li> [Enhance SCN search|Re: How to close a question which is not answered]
    <li> [Friends-And-Foes functionality|Re: "Kill List" suggestion;
    <li> [Metrics for quality measure|Re: How to close a question which is not answered]
    <li> [and information on the direction of the forums|Re: How to close a question which is not answered - and other improvements...]
    <li> [FAQ collection forum|Re: How to close a question which is not answered]
    <li> [An open, overall SDN suggestions site|Re: How to close a question which is not answered]
    <li> [More abuse categories|Re: How to close a question which is not answered - and other improvements...]
    <li> [Personal status of the person posting|Re: Suggestions for forum improvements]
    <li> [Improvement of formatting issues|Formatting issues in SDN postings (character limit and code tags)]
    <li> [Stricter moderation|Re: Suggestions for forum improvements]
    <ul style="list-style:circle!important;">
    <li> [Penalising whoever answers basic questions|Re: Suggestions for forum improvements]
    <li> [Cutting points/guestifying responders|Re: Suggestions for forum improvements]
    </ul>
    <li> [Visibility of number of people following a thread|Re: Suggestions for forum improvements]
    <li> [Invention of u2018honour badgesu2019|Re: Suggestions for forum improvements]
    <li> [Substitution of the points-system by:|Recognize the contributor;
    <ul style="list-style:circle!important;">
    <li>[Introduction of a secondary point-system|http://forums.sdn.sap.com/post!Re: Suggestions for forum improvements]
    <li>[Designing a u2018recognition and votingu2019 system|http://forums.sdn.sap.com/post!Re: Suggestions for forum improvements]
    <li>[Considering the honeypot system|http://forums.sdn.sap.com/post!/community [original link is broken] 9111575#9111575]
    <li>[Inventing an event driven honouring|http://forums.sdn.sap.com/post!/community [original link is broken]9135164#9135164]
    </ul>
    <li>[Bring transparency to the moderator-elevation and maintenance process|How to become a Moderator in SDN Forums;
    </ol>

    Hi Marilyn,
    Thanks a lot for the reply, it's good to see that even the not-so-polite rant postings are taken serious and get attention. I think that most of us truly appreciate the platform SAP is providing, but we're a bit tired with some of the application features/limitations. So I hope nobody takes offense when we're venting a bit...
    Waiting for more input here.
    I neither understand the <em>more input</em> (for what and by whom) nor the <em>here</em> (this thread or this forum). The missing functionality for dealing with unanswered questions seems obvious enough. At least that should be one topic that everybody agrees on. I suspect that the same applies to the rather poor <em>search capabilities</em>. Though as we can see in the forums, lots of people apparently seem to prefer to quickly shoot some questions instead of wasting their time with any research...
    Continue to convince us please.
    Is that a polite way of saying <em>keep on whining</em>? If yes, then no problem, I think we all need to do that from time to time...
    If the feedback from the community is truly important, I'd say that there should be a public system for posting bugs/feature requests on which people could vote. This should be prominently placed in the forums and would allow easier feedback. The voting feature could be used to possibly limit the bugs/requested features to look at (e.g. top ten list) and then be classified by SAP based on implementation effort (with the usual disclaimer that no feature might ever be implemented just because it's wanted). Needless to say that it should be easy to search for already existing requests, but in general I'd assume that fairly soon there would be more voting (on top requests) than posting new ones...
    To channel requests and avoid too many silly postings in this bug/feature tool one could imagine using earned <em>forum points</em> possibly as a currency for putting a value to the requests (i.e. I could vote to say if feature A gets implemented I'd pay it with N forum points, which are deducted from my account once the feature is present). I'm not sure if that is a good idea, but at least it might ensure that people who truly care about the platform enter their comments. At least it seems that often systems, which implement some artificial monetary system and try to optimize on cost, yield very good results...
    Cheers, harald

  • HT1766 I cannot backup my iphone, it keeps telling me the backup is corrupt and not compatible. All forums have suggested I delete the last backup but that was months ago and I'm afraid if I do that and it still doesn't work, I won't have anything saved

    I cannot backup my iphone, it keeps telling me the backup is corrupt and not compatible. All forums have suggested I delete the last backup but that was months ago and I'm afraid if I do that and it still doesn't work, I won't have anything saved. Can anyone help?

    Try to connect in recovery mode, explained in this article:
    iOS: Unable to update or restore
    Before that, back up your device, explained here:
    iOS: Back up and restore your iOS device with iCloud or iTunes
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    https://selfsolve.apple.com/agreementWarrantyDynamic.do

  • Improvement Suggestion: Add Animation to Movie Clips in Repositories

    Hi there,
    I have been trying to post this improvement suggestion by filling-in the corresponding form but it didn't allow me enough characters to describe it correctly. So I am posting it here now and going to reference it in the Improvement Suggestion form...
    Currently it's hard to perform a good edit because Adobe Premiere Pro doesn't provide a clip basket showing all available clips running, allowing the user to preview and choose from different takes of the same scene.
    I'd like to suggest to animate all movie clips in all repositories, like Media Browser and Project panels, in order to create kind of an animated lightbox.
    These clips should be run without audio, in low resolution and, optionally, at a lower framerate, depending on the machine's capabilities and user's preferences.
    Clicking (and thereby activating) one of those movie clips should ...
    magnify that clip,
    enable audio for that clip,
    display a timeline,
    and display an in-point and an out-point marker.
    Using these markers, the user shall be able to limit the preview loop of the clip in that particular repository (e.g. to repetitively monitor only a small scene of the movie clip).
    Here's a link to a small movie clip demonstrating the improvement suggestion as a virtual live demonstration:
    (While recording I was suffering from a tonsillitis, so the text might be hard to understand from time to time.)

    After carrying this thought with me around for a while I'd like to add an update to my original suggestion:
    When comparing different takes (= clips) of the same recorded live scenes, the usual editing process while working with Premiere Pro would be to drill down on the take that's supposed to be inserted into the sequence. So if there were 8 takes of the same scene, first there would be 8 clips to compare, then 7, 6, 5, 4... until the final clip is found.
    In the course of the comparison process it would be very helpful to be able to "switch off" those takes that have been decided not to be used. So I'd like to update my suggestion to provide the following additional features:
    Each preview clip should provide a play/pause feature. So playback shall be switched on and off individually for each of the preview clips.
    As mentioned in my original suggestion, when activated (zoomed), the preview should provide buttons for manipulating that clip preview's playback. Originally I suggested a Play Audio button (with a speaker symbol).
    I now, additionally, suggest to add a Play/Pause button to an activated (zoomed) clip preview. If playback is active, that button should display a Pause icon. If playback is paused, the same button should display a Play icon.
    Given that, an active preview would be displayed something like this:
    After a clip has been selected for an insert, the next editing step would be to search a clip from the repository for the next insertion into the sequence. So all tracks would be back in the game.
    So there should be a new menu item, resuming playback of all preview clips in the repository: "Edit > Preview > Play all clips".
    If the user wants to concentrate on the Program Montitor video, he/she should be able to pause all preview clips. So I suggest the should be a new menu item complementing the previous one: "Edit > Preview > Pause all clips".
    Some people might prefer not to see any animation in the repositories at all. For them there should be a new option available in Premiere Preferences to pause all preview clips by default (this setting would equal to the current behaviour).
    The user might want to concentrate on a single preview clip and just want to have this single clip being played back when activated (zoomed).
    So I suggest there should also be a Solo option available.
    By holding the [CTRL] key down while clicking the Play/Pause button suggested in provision #1, all preview clips should be paused and the currently active (zoomed) preview clip should be played back alone.
    In my suggestion I have been focussing on using Premiere Pro with the mouse. But there should be keyboard shortcuts available for all these actions, too.

  • How do i submit a product improvement suggestion

    How do I submit a product improvement suggestion for the iPhone?

    Apple does not accept input from the general public.  They advise AGAINST it.
    http://www.apple.com/legal/intellectual-property/policies/ideas.html
    Apple or any of its employees do not accept or consider unsolicited ideas, including ideas for new advertising campaigns, new promotions, new or improved products or technologies, product enhancements, processes, materials, marketing plans or new product names. Please do not submit any unsolicited ideas, original creative artwork, suggestions or other works (“submissions”) in any form to Apple or any of its employees. The sole purpose of this policy is to avoid potential misunderstandings or disputes when Apple’s products or marketing strategies might seem similar to ideas submitted to Apple. If, despite our request that you not send us your ideas, you still submit them, then regardless of what your letter says, the following terms shall apply to your submissions.
    TERMS OF IDEA SUBMISSION
    You agree that: (1) your submissions and their contents will automatically become the property of Apple, without any compensation to you; (2) Apple may use or redistribute the submissions and their contents for any purpose and in any way; (3) there is no obligation for Apple to review the submission; and (4) there is no obligation to keep any submissions confidential.
    PRODUCT FEEDBACK
    Apple does, however, welcome your feedback regarding many areas of Apple’s existing business. If you want to send us your feedback, and we hope you do, we simply request that you send it to us using the form found at www.apple.com/contact, or you can choose from the many other listed areas for your feedback. Please provide only specific feedback on Apple’s existing products or marketing strategies; do not include any ideas that Apple’s policy will not permit it to accept or consider. It’s just one more way that Apple can learn how to best satisfy your needs.
    Feedback and Information
    Any feedback you provide at this site shall be deemed to be non-confidential. Apple shall be free to use such information on an unrestricted basis.

  • Suggestion for forum improvement

    Recently, when I tried to execute some code at home which I had posted in this forum at work I noticed that it did not work and trying to find out, what happened I saw that two code lines like
    field1||' &lt; '||field2,
    field3||', '||field4||'('||field5||')',were shortened to a single line
    field1||' < ', '||field4||'('||field5||')',and some days later I had an example where several line of code disappeared after a &lt; sign and I noticed that also other user of the forum posted code that was somehow "broken" because they used characters like &lt; and &gt;. I think this happens because the forum software tries to find html tags in the code, but in my opinion this it not always a good idea. If I copy and paste some code from my "real world" here, it is annoying to check, whether there occurs a problem because of the html interpretation of some characters in this code.
    A possible solution for this could be, that there is a setting in the user profile like "I want to use html tags in my postings" and in my opinion this should be switched off as a default for new users of the forum. And if this setting is not checked any code in a posting will be shown exactly as it was pasted into the box.
    What do you think about my idea?

    I don't know what was disabled in the past but I still can use things like &lt;font color="red"&gt;<font color="red">red</font>&lt;/font&gt; here in the forum and that's what I mean.
    And maybe you misunderstood my intention. I don't want more html as there is today. I want less, at least for unexperienced users. If users want they can switch it on immediately but than they should know what they do and be aware of the side effects.
    I personally would prefer to keep html off totally. I don't need the possibility to use <font color="red">red code</font> but I would like to copy and paste my SQL and PLS/SQL code without checking if there are any characters in my code which get interpreted as html code and destroy the functionality of the code.

  • Suggestion for New Forum Improvement/Upgrade

    To the PTB:
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  • Problem in code and improvement suggestion

    Hi
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    as the date being selected is huge ,but need to know how much we can imrove this program as far as performance is concerned.
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    Moderator message - Please see Please Read before Posting in the Performance and Tuning Forum before posting - post locked
    You should do some analysis and post the results
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    Total Questions:  279 (127 unresolved) 
    And please clean up your old posts
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  • Where To Post Product Feature/Improvement Suggestions

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  • Please help...I have tried almost everything these forums have suggested!!

    I have seen other people criticize post-ers for their lack of details, so here it goes:
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    I apologize for the long post, but I am particularly angry since my 1 year warranty ended 2 WEEKS AGO. Steve Jobs is a brilliant man indeed...
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    Looks as though you've tried most everything -- but I don't see mention of you connection directly to the modem to test the connection with the router out of the loop - and don't see where you "reset" the router after the firmware upgrade
       You might want to 'start from scratch' and throw a "reset to factory default settings" into the procedure
       Re-flash/re-install the most current firmware version and then reset the router by holding the reset button in for at least 30 seconds - disconnect the modem and connect a PC via a hard wire in the #4 port of your router -- then reconfigure all settings re-connect the modem to the router and do a power cycle of all devices (in the correct order) -- and you might as well re-create the network connection in your PC(s) being sure all settings match the settings you configured in the router 
      And then cross your fingers -- and check back if further help is needed -- supply as much detail as to exactly what you have tried, ie.. OS, type of broadband connection etc...

  • IWeb Improvement Suggestions

    Thought I'd post this here to see what everyone else thinks. I originally sent the email to the iWeb Feedback address. (BTW, I know that you can upload only updated pages to a third-party host, but, let's face it, it's a needlessly real pain in the neck.)
    "Hi,
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    h) The Blog pages need work. I tried to start a blog for the website using iWeb and, though it looks OK, I've edging heavily towards only providing a link to WordPress or Blogger and keeping it there instead. Why? Because, I'm using the Darkroom template (which comes with Futura font) with Trebuchet (because Futura is not web-safe, thanks to Mr. Bill Gates, meaning that I have to change everything to an image). Now, on the Entries page, Trebuchet works fine, but on the landing Blog page, no matter how many times I change the font to Trebuchet and save, it always reverts to the Futura default as soon as I leave it in IWeb and come back -- which of course will lead to problems with Explorer. On top of that, if I have to update the blog, say, twice a day, your rule on publishing and uploading every single page again makes the whole blogging thing a real chore. I'd vastly prefer keeping the blog on my own website, but you're kind of forcing my hand.
    i) OK, that's about it."

    The place to send this is...
    http://www.apple.com/feedback/iweb.html
    For publishing issues see my post ....
    http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1537790&tstart=0
    Have you tried Free Ruler?
    http://www.pascal.com/software/freeruler/
    Drop down menus etc can be created and separate websites can easily be handled without using third party software. See this topic....
    http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1535265&tstart=100
    If you want to learn about iWeb you will find a lot of the pieces that are missing from the manual here.......
    http://alyeska.altervista.org/en/iWeb_FAQ.html

  • ZEN MICRO: firmware improvements suggesti

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    UP THE IRONS! :mrgreen:

    . Tracks do play in order of the tag track number, if queued by album.
    2. Fair enough.
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  • Improvement suggestions

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    Hi Qov,
    Thank you for your suggestions. We will review these suggestions with our team.
    Thank you

  • Improving Suggestion for Elements 12

    How do I make suggestions for improving the current Photo Elements 12 software?

    There have been so many times that I would have an idea or request that I thought would make the software better etc….. but couldn’t find how to submit the idea.  Thank you, for such a quick reply and link.  I have just submitted my request on the  linked site.
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  • ITunes improvement suggestion

    I don't know if this is the proper venue for this sort of thing, but since Apple doesn't seem to want their customers emailing them, and thus hides all their email addresses (Post Purchase Customer Service: "We care how you feel about your product... if you have questions and concerns, let us know!!! <insert cheery happy mac-inspired happy smiley face thingy here>", but then doesn't provide a method of doing so... It's all good, though, I can't email Microsoft, either.). So, I'm putting it here, in case someone that makes decisions reads this thing.
    I bought a song tonight, that I haven't heard in something like 25+ years. I didn't know the artist (still don't), so I previewed the long list of near misses in the search results and re-recordings. I found one clip, that was instrumental only, that sounded sort of scratchy, and I thought it was very easy to believe that I had found, THE version I wanted, recorded in the 70's by my reckoning. So I bought it. In any case, it's a little over three minutes of instrumental... no lyrics. Gar!!!
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    I mean, at $.99, it's not a big loss that I don't get to hear the words to "In the year 2525" - I'll just buy it again. I'm actually more annoyed at what I had to go through to place my suggestion. An email would have sufficed, not because I'd expect an answer, but because I had a suggestion and just wanted to fire it off. I didn't want to have to go through all this multiple account creation crap just to be sitting here typing this, not knowing if the people that guide the development of iTunes and the Music Store are even going to see it.

    Here's a link that should let you e-mail the store. Go to the section on download questions, then click on artists & albums, I believe. Fill out the form at the bottom of the page. iTMS support is by e-mail only. This is also a user to user forum only, so we would have no control over the content of the store.
    http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/musicstore/
    Message was edited by: StarDeb55

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