Please search before posting!

Is it me or do we see about the same questions being posted over and over and over. No wonder people thing Macbooks are problem plagued - Please search before posting. Just venting...

Oh 'gimme a break, will 'ya? Lots of people are new here it is not always possible to find answers to questions, or they just want a personalized response. I think everyone is guilty at some point of posting a question that could have been searched for first. Besides, how are people to build up points to get a higher point status if the same questions are not asked again and again and again......?? IF that were the case, there would be very little activity on these boards and it would be no fun!
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I have seen users posting new threads, which are discussed earlier and solutions is available in the forums. This just increases the volume of posts.
Can we have a functionality where, before posting a new thread, a search is performed in the forums and similar threads are displayed? If the user does not find a relevant match he/she processed and finally posts the thread?
I did search if similar thread exists before posting
Thanks,
Somar

Hi,
even if you did a search and didn't find a similar thread, this topic has already been discussed a few times. So may be others are facing the same problem. Searching... but not getting a helpful response and so post a new thread.
kind regards
Siggi
PS: here is one result I got while searching with 'searching before posting'. https://forums.sdn.sap.com/click.jspa?searchID=10365424&messageID=4964304
Edited by: Siegfried Szameitat on Apr 3, 2008 12:42 PM

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Dear Jan
Sometime i found very difficuties and time taking process in putting questions in forum bcos i have to elaborate the whole pictorial process in words.
Why Cant we make our this forum more Interactive in way of asking questions by allowing us to attach print preview of what we face in the system.
If you kindly give a glance on this issue and try to implement it for us, forum members like us will be benefited and it will be beneficial for those who are all into in this forum.
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Add a statement on the front page that reminds people to search to see if their issue has already been reported.
Especially if comes to ading a new channel. If it helps cut the duplicate requests by even 10%, that would be great.
Either that, or have some place to easily look up and link to channel requests so people can add their votes.
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CRobGauth wrote:
Add a statement on the front page that reminds people to search to see if their issue has already been reported.
Especially if comes to ading a new channel. If it helps cut the duplicate requests by even 10%, that would be great.
Either that, or have some place to easily look up and link to channel requests so people can add their votes.
I agree with you one gazillion percent...... But you don't see this on the page after you log in?
I do see that announcement, not as good as it should be, but better than nothing (and apparently ignored by 99.9999% of the posters).
Not only the channel requests but topics like the Guide format, colors, etc, the possible loss of the Fox channels in certain markets, etc. New threads over and over and over......
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What I can say is that you have to avoid imbricated loops even though there is a WHERE clause in the second loop (SAP has to check all records in the second loop for this condition...).
On another hand, your code is not very clear since there lacks some ENDIF and ENDLOOP so we don't really see where there is imbricated loops or not...
For the loop on i_bsis, there seems also to have some error since you fill structure wa_revn but you append structure wa_final!!! There seems to be no link between those two structure!
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I can understand your point of view and I respect it in regards to Small Basic being a learning language. None the less, let me make a suggestion that would be more ageeable, I think, to different kinds of people. Why not make different versions
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evolve at the same time your versions would come out and Microsoft would have a long term policy of loyal programmers.

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I can understand your point of view and I respect it in regards to Small Basic being a learning language. None the less, let me make a suggestion that would be more ageeable, I think, to different kinds of people. Why not make different versions
of this new language: version 1 for beginners that I heard would be out by the end of this year,
version 2 for intermediates and version 3 for more advanced programmers. All this would culminate to the Visual Basic language. These 3 versions would smoothe out the gap between SB and Visual Basic. Your new programmers would
evolve at the same time your versions would come out and Microsoft would have a long term policy of loyal programmers.

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Dear Jan
Sometime i found very difficuties and time taking process in putting questions in forum bcos i have to elaborate the whole pictorial process in words.
Why Cant we make our this forum more Interactive in way of asking questions by allowing us to attach print preview of what we face in the system.
If you kindly give a glance on this issue and try to implement it for us, forum members like us will be benefited and it will be beneficial for those who are all into in this forum.
Thanks & Regards
Saifur Rahaman

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too many people are posting questions like "MSIPVS don't work, please help" but if you don't tell us what your system is, its like asking your GP to diagnose medical problems over the phone - ie, guesswork!! also it helps if you give us your location, ie Seattle, USA; Norwich, UK; Kabul, Afghanistan; for local TV issues.
any users with the MS8606 TV@nywhere Master should first try the Unofficial BETA drivers for this product listed in my sticky at the top of this forum, looking through the release notes for this, it fixes many problems that users have posted about.
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This should avoid any "antenna & afghanistan" default configurations in MSIPVS, but please ensure your correct region and TV standard settings are selected, and the correct cable / antenna connection is selected.
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Edited by: Siddharth Rajora on Dec 19, 2011 8:35 PM
Edited by: Siddharth Rajora on Dec 19, 2011 8:36 PM

teshlachris,
iTunes, like other applications, will sometimes have issues trying to install from a different admin user than the one used to first install it.
Did your son install iTunes with a different account? If so, your previous post did not include the fact your son had previously installed iTunes, or I would have suggested trying the install while logged in under his account.
Hope this helps,
Nathan C.

OT: Please search forum before asking questions (was:IMPORTANT FOR ALL !!!!)

i want to see a new question , all of your questions has a answers in the forum please searsh before you asking , Thanks

It is true that most people do not search the forum. They are usually concentrating on their problem and not realizing that most of the time someone had that problem before them and the question has been answered. Earlier, I had a post entitled "Most Asked Questions". Maybe we should have a FAQ blog or something to compile those questions again with some examples???

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