Making a Forum

I was thinking about making an online forum and
wondering how to do this with databases. Would each
topic be a table and replies would be rows, or would
there be one table and every topic a row with all the
replies in a cell? Or is there another way?There are lots of ways to do anything. None of them are "right", but you'll find that some will be more advantagous than others.
Sit down, decide how you'd like to do it, and try it out.
You've got to come up with a description of the problem you'd like to solve first. I think a forum like this wouldn't be trivial to develop. See if you can write out a description in natural language before you do anything else.

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Stop making new forum categories! I can't find anything!

Ok. So I know that now that Buzzword has been 'integrated'
with many other Adobe things, it has a lot more users, but I truly
miss the old forum more and more. Especially considering how many
people are on now. In the old forum, new comments were on the top,
one did not have to search for them. And they were all in one
place, rather than people making their own category (like I am
doing now).
I would also really like to know if the old forum is still
accessible somewhere? I am curious to see what the last comments
were by older users of Buzzword.
My suggestions:
1 - Bookmarks. I have become dependent on bookmarks.... Open
Office does it so well, it is easy to create and browse through
them. You could make, like a little box (similar to the symbol
insert one) where users could create, destroy, and follow bookmarks
with just a click. It would be awesome.
2 - A floating message thing. Something that you could write
comments in but wasn't attached to a specific line. I have created
separate documents for this purpose, but it would be nice to be
able to have it to the side. Like Macintosh Stickies or something.
3 - I thought I had another idea that I posted in the old
forum... But I can't remember it... Is there anyway to visit that?
4 - Everyone wants a new organizer. Tags and folders and
stuff. I suppose it would be nice. But it is defiantly the most
suggested feature in the old forum.
5 - It would also be nice to be able to re-name a document
for your organizer alone. Not that it would affect the true name
and how others saw it.
6 - A horizontal ruler.
7 - Another thing that would be great is a 'mark as unread'
feature, like e-mail has, in case I opened a document and didn't
find what was different or just wanted to mark it so I remember to
look at it when I get on next. And on that note, it would be nice
if Buzzword could temporarily mark (with an underline or something,
perhaps a colored bar to the left) changes that happened to the
document.
8 - Fix the forum. I am all for freedom, usually. But I think
there could be more control. Like not allowing everyone to make new
topics, but preform within the topics that are there. It is easier
to organize this way. Less chaotic.
Oh, and if there have been more changes to buzzword that I
don't know about, then you should consider updating the "Welcome to
Buzzword" document....
Thank you for this wonderful word processor. It really is one
of my favorite (ironically, because it is more simple, yet pretty
and has pagination. It is a pity to me that so many new users want
formats and styles and such...) Thanks for reading all our comments
so patiently.

The old Buzzword forum is no longer available, as we want to
encourage existing and new users to frequent this forum to post
their ideas, comments and ask questions.
However, we are currently going through all of the content of
the old Buzzword Forum (there were many great ideas and good
solutions which we don't want to lose) to bring the solutions to
this forum. You'll see some new postings in this forum based on the
content in the original Buzzword forum.
The ideas and suggestions for feature enhancements have been
logged with the product team. So, your ideas and comments have had
an impact!

Making a forum in dreamweaver.

I am trying to make a forum script in dreamweaver. I know it
is possible because someone i know did it. Is there any tutorials
on how to make a forum with dreamweaver? I am stuck.

Not sure why you would want to re-invent the wheel and have
no hair left by the time you tried to
get this done :-) There are many open source forum apps
available.
However, I believe I may have seen a tutorial over at the
Adobe Dreamweaver site some time ago about
creating a forum.
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>it. Is there any tutorials on how to make a forum with
dreamweaver? I am stuck.

Making a forum or blog with flash?

I'd like to know why I've never seen a forum (like this one)
or a blog made out of flash. Is there a technical hurdle? Is it
because Google won't be able to index it?
Thanks.

There are lots of "blogs" made with Flash actually.
We just did an author's site who has a blog...
http://www.latayne.com
It's in Flash.
In fact, we used to use Blogger to do the "backend" editing
of all the sites we did... so that sites like
http://www.nysbroadcasters.org
are done with Flash, and grabs the content from Blogger.
Using Blogger like that is actually a GOOD way to get Google
to index your sites in fact.
As for a forum like this... yes... that might be a bit more
difficult... though I promise I've seen one before.

Making a forum thread/section hidden from anyone NOT logged in.

I was wondering if it would be possible to set the forum software to hide a specific thread/section from anyone not logged in.
Specifically I had in mind the email signup thread here. It would be nice to hide at least this specific thread from anyone NOT logged in, so as to keep the spam bots from harvesting the emails ..... Just a thought Not sure if this forum software allows threads to be hidden or just entire catagories.

I just posted this:
crouse wrote:
PREVENT BOT HARVESTING !! Please don't post the entire email address you want! (bots will scan pages and harvest your email address)...... please just post the USERNAME you want for the email address. I'm smart enought to figure out the rest of it lol. Post something like:
I'd like to have "USERNAME". Thanks.
If you already HAVE posted your entire email address....... i suggest editing your own post and removing the "@archlinux.us" part. Just a friendly tip
in the thread ..... TWICE. If people don't follow the suggestions, then the spam will be their OWN problem I think the thread fits in community better than anywhere else, so I say just leave it there. Eventually I might setup some sort of form to automate the whole process, I've got about half of it done actually, but for now this seems to work best for me.

How close is BC to making their Forum Module more current?

What I mean by this is, I'd like for their forum module to have all the bells and whistles like most other forums: ability to add emoticons, create links within responses, post images via sites like photobucket, etc.
I started creating a forum for my comic book art website and I'd like to create a community of like minded artists But the ability to post one's artwork seems to be limited to only copying and pasting images into the reply. This is actually kind of cool, but most forums allow you to paste img code links, type text and then link it, etc.
BC's forum module is lacking in this respect.

Hey there, short answer is - It is an older module, it has not been updated for years and there are no signs it will be updated any time soon.

Status of Wiki and Forum updates/migration/changes

Hey all,
I've spent about two hours e-mailing and PMing various people interested in helping out with various wiki and forum tasks. This thread is an announcement of the current status, with the intent of getting everyone up to date. Its also an invitation to people working independently on things to get in touch with me ([email protected]), because I've found there's some duplicate labour going on out there. Please if you respond to this thread, keep on topic and be serious. Most of the current set up is about technical details; if you're not interested in these, don't post. Suggestions from interested observers can go in other threads (there's a lot to choose from!), I want actual feedback from people that are involved or willing to be involved with this project.
First, it looks like sometime in the future, we will be migrating the forums to punbb. The details haven't been hashed out yet, but Romashka and cactus have both been working on testing the migration process. Migration seems to be relatively simple, but there are a lot of small details to be worked out. I don't have any specific timeline, but I'm guessing the new forum won't be ready until sometime next year.
Second, we may be migrating to dokuwiki sometime in the future. I'm not sure when, but it probably won't be until after the forum migration or at the same time. Regardless of whether or not we migrate from mediawiki to dokuwiki, we are planning on integrating the wiki and forum authentication mechanism, so your account on one will also work on the other. (In the long run, I'm praying we can get organized enough to also integrate AUR and flyspray, but that's a vision not even open for discussion yet!).
Third, we are currently working on cleaning up the current mediawiki. Romashka is working on a new style and template to make the current installation more aesthetically tolerable. Foxbunny is working on the actual wiki texts, category, and language structure. Tardo has some kind of hack to deal with the multi-language issue; I'm not sure if that will be implemented, as I have no information yet on how difficult it is. Someone (possibly me) will also have to update the mediawiki installation from 1.5.whatever to 1.8.latest.
Chronologically, the cleanup of the current wiki will occur first, in the next few weeks, hopefully. Once we have an idea of how pretty and how organized we can make the existing installation, we will make the final decision on a dokuwiki migration. The integration of punbb and dokuwiki|mediawiki has to happen at about the same time, so the migration will not happen until after the forum migration.
We've have been considering setting up a mailing list or private forum for discussion of these topics, to restrict discussion to those people who are actually interested in helping out. Because I don't really like the elitist nature of such a move, I'm making this forum the place for open discussion on this topic for now.
Thanks,
Dusty

Hey all,
I've spent about two hours e-mailing and PMing various people interested in helping out with various wiki and forum tasks. This thread is an announcement of the current status, with the intent of getting everyone up to date. Its also an invitation to people working independently on things to get in touch with me ([email protected]), because I've found there's some duplicate labour going on out there. Please if you respond to this thread, keep on topic and be serious. Most of the current set up is about technical details; if you're not interested in these, don't post. Suggestions from interested observers can go in other threads (there's a lot to choose from!), I want actual feedback from people that are involved or willing to be involved with this project.
First, it looks like sometime in the future, we will be migrating the forums to punbb. The details haven't been hashed out yet, but Romashka and cactus have both been working on testing the migration process. Migration seems to be relatively simple, but there are a lot of small details to be worked out. I don't have any specific timeline, but I'm guessing the new forum won't be ready until sometime next year.
Second, we may be migrating to dokuwiki sometime in the future. I'm not sure when, but it probably won't be until after the forum migration or at the same time. Regardless of whether or not we migrate from mediawiki to dokuwiki, we are planning on integrating the wiki and forum authentication mechanism, so your account on one will also work on the other. (In the long run, I'm praying we can get organized enough to also integrate AUR and flyspray, but that's a vision not even open for discussion yet!).
Third, we are currently working on cleaning up the current mediawiki. Romashka is working on a new style and template to make the current installation more aesthetically tolerable. Foxbunny is working on the actual wiki texts, category, and language structure. Tardo has some kind of hack to deal with the multi-language issue; I'm not sure if that will be implemented, as I have no information yet on how difficult it is. Someone (possibly me) will also have to update the mediawiki installation from 1.5.whatever to 1.8.latest.
Chronologically, the cleanup of the current wiki will occur first, in the next few weeks, hopefully. Once we have an idea of how pretty and how organized we can make the existing installation, we will make the final decision on a dokuwiki migration. The integration of punbb and dokuwiki|mediawiki has to happen at about the same time, so the migration will not happen until after the forum migration.
We've have been considering setting up a mailing list or private forum for discussion of these topics, to restrict discussion to those people who are actually interested in helping out. Because I don't really like the elitist nature of such a move, I'm making this forum the place for open discussion on this topic for now.
Thanks,
Dusty

Using forums with IWEB

Hey everyone,
I was wondering if forums are compatible with iweb. I want to create my own forums. If so what is recommended in making a forum.
thank you

Here is mine
http://web.mac.com/kenan1085/KennosWebpage/Welcome.html
I still have a great deal of work to do compared to all your wonderful pages that I have looked at.
I intend to later do some cool adjustment as I learn more.
Comments would be really nice too !!

[Request] Separate Sub-Forum for TPT2

Hi,
Admins and Mods, is it possible to create a separate sub-forum for TPT2 ?
I think it would be better if we had one. Without suitable thread titles, it is highly possible to distract owners/users.
And surely they are totally different platforms, Hardware-Wise and Software-Wise.
Thanks.
ThinkPad Tablet 2 - 367927U
ThinkPad Tablet - 183822U

What is going on with this? I just came back to the forums after several months, and the TPT2 and TPT threads being mixed makes the forum very onerous. Please separate them somehow.
Is the TPT getting so little support that even making the forums useful can't be done? Even an amateur webmaster would have seen this problem right away.
¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet 1838CTO (not rooted, from Lenovo Direct Japan); WiFi-only model (w/ Galaxy Note LTE as tether); 64GB system memory with Transcend 64GB Class 10 SDXC card; ThinkPadTablet_A310_02_0039_0090_JP rom; GPS works (slowly) after 2012/04 return (power button had broke); Camera will not focus. (note: I have not re-tested these since the ICS update 2012/06/21) ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸

Forum 'REPLY' function

I do not see difference between using 'NEW POST' and 'REPLY' when replying to a post.
Say there are 10 posts and I'd like to reply to a particular post. When I click 'Reply' button on the second post and submit, it just sits on very bottom of the post list and doesn't show relation to the particular post. even in linkage wise, they are all same so cannot customise look of them neither.
Spoke to a BC support and was told that the 'Reply' is to reply to entire thread. What's the point of having 'Reply' button on every single post layout then ? and also when insert the tag, description says 'Hyperlink to reply to this post.'
This really confuse both forum users and doesn't make sense.
What I am looking for is something like "reply to a particular post" so the reply sits right under it, or something like "Quote" function so other people know which post the reply refers to.
These functions are already in this support forum and I assume that this forum is built on BC as well? how come we don't get this "basic" function as end-users?
Also I found that when clicking the 'Reply' buttons all individual buttons have different identifier called 'ParentID'
I think this ParentID is refering to the original post being replied, this identifier is in editor form action as well however it's not being used in actual reply being created.
Any improvement or idea on implementing this "making-sense-forum" ?

This forum is not built on BC at all. IT uses a very expensive system called Jive.
At the moment what your after is not supported by the BC forums.

Greasemonkey script for Adobe forums (for Firefox)

Found a great little Greasemonkey script for making the forums a little more readable. It shows/hides the Actions panel on the right side of the screen to give more real estate to the messages.
If you don't have Greasemonkey installed you can get it here:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/748
The show/hide script is found here:
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/46297

great this is what i've been looking for, thanks!

Alsa issue on a Dell Studio 15

I'm actually kind of surprised that I've resorted to making a forum post on this topic, but really I'm just flat out of ideas.
I just got this laptop yesterday, and immediately reformatted it and installed arch. Everything's working (X, openbox, network to an extent, etc), with the exception of alsa. For some reason, aplay isn't working, or rather I don't hear any sound when I type the command "sudo aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav" (sudo just to make sure it wasn't some queer permissions problem). Every channel in alsamixer is unmuted, and I even kept on increasing the volume up until everything was at 100%, still to no avail. I followed the standard procedure in the arch beginners guide, so alsa-utils, alsa-oss, and alsa-lib are all installed.
I tried running alsaconf as root, set up every card that it discovered (didn't probe for legacy chips, though), which, for reference are...
*hda-intel Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller)
*hda-intel ATI Technologies Inc R700 Audio Device [Radeon HD 4000 Series]
*legacy Probe Legacy ISA (non-PnP) chips
and said yes to it modifying any modprobe.conf files (this is all after I had tried doing it manually as described on the alsa wiki page, mind you).
So, can anyone point me in the right direction? I can't hear anything through the speakers, or headphones if I plug them into either of the 3.5mm output jacks (yeah, there's two on this machine). I'd really like to get mpd+sonata running on this thing next, but that would be kind of pointless if I can't hear anything.

Thanks, that got my speaker and one of the two headphone jacks working.
For anyone else who's having this problem, just add
options snd-hda-intel model=dell-m6
to your modprobe file(s)
(just to make sure, I added it to these three)
/etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf
/etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf
/etc/modprobe.conf
Now to get mpd, sonata, wireless, bluetooth, camera, mics working. It's going to be a fun weekend ;-)

An Apology to SDN and a Request for Advice

After thinking about Mark Finnern's suggestion yesterday that I stop blogging so frequently, I realized that I had made an honest mistake about the way in which I was using the SDN blog area.
Let me try to explain how and why this mistake occurred.
First, it goes without saying that what SDN does well, it does extremely well. I have used the Expert Forums on several critical occasions in the past few months, and they function "above and beyong". I also keep a list of "good_sdn_links" when I see great guides and explanations in blog posts, so I don't have to bother searching for them later, and here again, SDN is doing its job extremely well.
But the fact that SDN does certain things very very well doesn't mean it is doing everything it should be doing.
What do I mean by this?
Well, many people here at SDN would agree with me that there are many things terribly wrong with the IT community today and inside the SAP community as well. Furthermoe, it's my opinion that SDN is doing nothing to try and change these things, when it in fact can and should be trying to change them.
So I decided to do my part as a "change agent" by posting a number of "perspective" posts which tried to communicate what I thought was wrong with IT and SAP today.
But here's where the mistake came in.
First, I figured from my read count that I must be doing something right, otherwise, why would my blog posts have @52,000 reads since 10/1/2006, or about 440 reads per calendar day?
Second, for all the criticism I received in personal emails about my blogs, I also received validation at SDN. Let me give you an example of this.
Two well-respected and long-time members of the SDN community indicated to me in personal emails that they had a lot of problems with my two long series of blogs on the WDA component WDR_TEST_UI_ELEMENTS and how it could be very easily converted to do many other useful things.
But at the same time as I was receiving this criticsm , I responded to Thomas Szuecs in one of his threads and therefore took an opportunity to ask him if he knew the SAP developer of WDR_TEST_UI_ELEMETNS, and if so, to convey my gratitude to the developer of WDR_TEST_UI_ELEMENTS for writing such a wonderful piece of code. He responded that he did know this developer and that this developer liked the series very much,
Third, I have received blog responses from several SDNers indicating that my "perspective posts" were registering with them. The one of these that I treasure most is from the SDNer who posted the following: "I like the way you put your finger where it hurts - keep it up."
So, you can see from the above three points how the mistake occurred - I figured that if I had 440 reads per day over four months, and if my technical posts were OK with key SAP developers, and if at least some readers were responding with indications that they understood what I was trying to do in my "perspective" posts, then I must be doing something right.
But if you've been following some recent conversations in this Forum, you'll realize that I was doing something quite wrong.
What I was doing wrong with my "perspective" posts was trying to use the blog space at SDN to effect change in the SAP community and therefore, in the larger IT community.
And if you think about it, this was wrong for a very obvious reason: SDN has this "Suggestions" Forum that I'm posting in right now.
So if I was really serious about trying to get SDN to become a change agent to help improve the SAP community and the larger IT community, then I should have been posting a particular kind of post to the Suggestion Forum, instead of "perspective" blogs.
In particular, I should have been making Suggestion Forum posts which:
a) clearly identify a problem in the SAP community that SDN can actually help to change;
b) offering a concrete suggestion as to how SDN can help to change this problem.
So - having finally realized my mistake, I want to start posting posts to this Suggestion Forum which do (a) and (b).
But before I do, I want to ask two questions up front: one about frequency and one about content.
With respect to frequency, how often should I make one of these posts to the Suggestion Forum - weekly, every other day - you folks tell me.
With respect to content, are there any topics that any one thinks inappropriate for a suggestion post? In particular, would anyone object to Suggestion Forum posts on the following topics:
a) in the SAP community (outside BI/A), matters relating to real business computation are being ignored in favor of an emphasis on tool technologies that have nothing to do with real business computation, but are important to SAP's marketing strategies; what can SDN to change this?
b) in the SAP community, not enough support is being provided to the many external SAP developers who are stuck on systems at or above 4.6c and below 04s; what can SDN do to change this?
c) in the SAP community, there is not enough awareness of deficiencies in the relational database model, and how carefully it must be used; what can SDN do to change this?
d) in the SAP community, there is not enough awareness of how various "organizational pathologies" at customer sites constrain the ways in which SAP can be used to benefit customers; what can SDN do to change this?
e) in the SAP community, there is far too little focus on SAP metadata, particularly at a time when SAP is trying to move into the Enterprise SOA paradigm.
To sum up:
1) If you think Suggestion Posts in any of these five areas are inappropriate, please take a moment to let me know.
2) If you think that Suggestion Posts should also be limited to a certain frequency, please also take a moment to let me know.
3) If you've gotten this far in reading this post, thanks very much for your patience and for whatever advice you have the time and energy to provide.
djh

Hi Eddy -
Thanks very much for the advice; it will probably work out that way anyway because right now I'm really interested in doing a good enough initial "trial-run" that Valery/Rich will be willing to get involved in a mini-collaboration that I'm right now working to start up with an opening post in "Test/Playground".
Anyway, since you're taking some time off, I beg you to take a look at the first two paragraphs of this link:
<a href="http://www.kcoyle.net/granfalloons.html">ReCatsCradle</a>.
and also then read Kurt Vonnegut's short novel "Cat's Cradle" if you haven't already.
It is amazing how Vonnegut's notions of a "granfaloon" and a "karass" are related to various events that transpire here at SDN.
Take care of yourself, buddy.
Best regards
djh

Wifi and BlackBerry Link Synch

I think it is generally understood that there currently exists a problem whereby you can not synch media via Blackberry Link unless you first turn WiFi off on the Blackberry and then connect via USB cable. So what I am wondering is will this be addressed soon and how ? By a new release of the OS or by a new release of BB Link ? I was hoping it would be fixed today when I installed the new BB Link release but it still is an issue to be fixed.
Is there anywhere we could look to see a list of accepted bugs (known problems that will be addressed at some point). It seems to me that there are a lot of wasted cycles by every new user asking the same questions as they discover the bugs themselves. If we had such a list we would check our problems there first before making redundant forum entries.

What is your computer OS ?       What virus program do you use ?
On the PC that you said Link will not install, install this BB Device Manager:   https://swdownloads.blackberry.com/Downloads/contactFormPreload.do?code=A8BAA56554F96369AB93E4F3BB06...
If installation is ok you can backup much of your data but not all data untill you resolve your issue with Link.
You can backup other data that Device Manager does not with:   http://worldwide.blackberry.com/ap/protect/
which is already installed on your phone.

How do you get to display checkbox items in list or detail layouts?

Hi,
I have searched everyhwere for what I felt would be standard stuff in web apps, now lost a day to it!
None of the online videos/knowledge base articles or this forum seem to cover it but I can't believe you wouldn't be able to do it.
If I have created checkbox fields in my web apps how do I get them to display in the main templates (details and list) as list items, ul, ol or dl or anything else other than raw output?
How do I wrap the nessersary html around the values? Jquery for now I guess or is there some hidden liquid layout or tag parameter/value I don't know of?
And whilst I'm on it is my only option to not show or show content based on a boolean true/false value to do it through jquery/css?
Help appreciated, so desperate now!
Regards
Bangers

Hi Mary,
Thanks for the help. I saw that somewhere though Adobe's making this forum nice and tricky to find anything! Relied on google caching for most useful stuff I've found to bybass the redirect to the first forum page.
I needed it to wrap around the items so came up with this:
<script type="text/javascript">
     $(document).ready(function () {
     // Populate a dl with checkbox items or choose any other html to wrap around items
         var checkItems="{tag_checkboxItems}";
         $('#dlID').html('<dt>Items List Title</dt><dd>'+checkItems.split(",").join("</dd><dd>")+'</dd>');
          // #dlID can be anything but identifys the html element that you setup to contain your list of items in my case it was a dl with id #dlID
</script>
If there is a better SEO method to do this please let me know.
Frankly I've been amazed that web apps don't really support conditional statments and there is little to no information on achieving it through jquery (my first projects have been fairly basic)...roll on fluild layouts I guess.
Failing that maybe Adobe could produce something in the knowledge base or videos which really do cover more advanced implementaion of web apps. I doubt anyone using web apps or having had experience of other CMS would really consider showing or hiding content based on boolean results or looping to create lists all that advanced, it's more a fundemental function of a CMS.
P.S Thanks again to both of you.
Bangers x

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