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so... we used to be able to search the discussions forum. Maybe I'm just missing where that feature went to. When I use the Search at the upper right corner of the page it searches all of Apple.com, but strangely enough rarely hits the forums. Please point me in the right direction.

Read this announcement from the main discussions page:
http://discussions.apple.com/ann.jspa?annID=639
Barry

Why did apple screw up the discussion forum format?

Why did apple screw up the discussion forum format?

Hi,
Apple in this case has to rely on what software is out there that can handle the amount of Traffic that these boards get.
This is from the Brows Option the selecting People in the box
Note the Number
At the Launch of the new software this was at just over 2,250,000 and has now topped 2,300,000
That is well over 50,000 people joining in just 2 weeks.
Jive are the only real players in this market.
To some extent the software is a one size fits all, much like the previous software was.
We got used to the look and the Folder type layout of the Previous software.
We ignored the foibles of where things were placed.
Things are somewhat double edged in my view.
I post mostly about iChat.
I don't like that the Leopard and Snow Leopard forums that were are now "Refine the List"/Tag led searching to read specific threads. (not to mention that returning to "Dicussions" loses the "refinement").
On the other hand those same threads and anwsers are now a lot more viewable in the OS forums than the subforums of before.
As a regular poster I use a couple of Boiler plate things for a welcome message and my Signature.
Some were made with TextExpander and included the HTML code to sttyle things slightly.
These no longer work without going to the HTML editor.
Posting link used to use the BBCodeXtra add-on to Firefox but this action is now included in the Regular and Advanced Editor.
That means I equipped myself and used things to get around shortcomings of the old software which is some cases I either don't need or need to learn the new way.
I am sure the Style will morph as we go along.
Of course some of this relies on what exactly you mean by:-
the discussion forum format
7:55 PM Saturday; May 7, 2011
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The Discussion Forum

The discussion forum which Oracle has come up with a new look ,
i feel is more cumbersome to use.
The earlier forum was much better in terms of usage .
Although the look and feel wise the new forum is much better but
its not user friendly .
Sorry to say but the previous Discussion forum was much more
better.

Noted. Comments about the discussion forum itself can be posted
on the feedback forums.
Regards,
Jerry

Editing the discussion forum portlet

Hi,
I've just deployed the discussion forum portlet from portal center, and am using it in a portal. But, how can I remove the big Oracle Logo that is displaying in the portlet?
Best regards
Eva Svensson

Hi Evan,
Are you talking about OracleAS Provider for Jive Forums?
If you are, then you can remove the logo by going to:
htdocs/launchLink.jsp
and modify the table tag which has a reference to the logo(images/logo.gif)
thanks,
Harsha

Recently I posted my first question on the discussion forum and received an answer. How can I reply to the answer? Where do I have to click to be able to post my response?I posted a question and received an answer. How can I reply to the answer

This may seem stupid: Recently I posted my first question to the discussion forum. I received an answer. Where can I reply to the answer?

It looks like this:
You will only see it if you Sign In with your appleID
Captfred

How to down-load the discussion forum portlet??

I am willing to download the discussion forum portlet from the
portalstudio site.
For that i was suppose to download and install WinCVS first.
I did that but while setting-up the cofiguration.
I had to enter my login name and password,provided by the
otn.oracle.com
WinCVS refused to recognize the login name
i m unable to understand the problem .
And i do not have any other option for downloading the
discussion forum portlet.
Is there any other way to download it
or is there something else ,which is to be done while
installing the WinCVS

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All the Materil master data is there in some of the tables.
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     MARD               Storage location / stock
     MSKA               Sales order stock
     MSPR               Project stock
     MARM               Units of measure
     MEAN               International article number
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     PROP               Forecast parameters
     MAPR               Link MARC <=> PROP
     MBEW               Material valuation
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     MDTB               MRP table
     MDKP               Header data for MRP document
     MLAN               Tax data material master
MTQSS               Material master view: QM
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Hope this helps..
Regards,
Siva

Is there any way to programmatically get the discussion forum Id using API

Hi,
Can any one let me know how to get and set the Discussion service forum Id / category Id to the discussion task flow programmatically using services API's. Here I am using Web center groupspace API's to create and add members to group space from my fusion app. Added the discussion task flow to my fusion app and need to set the category Id / forum Id assigned to that groupspace and display the corresponding discussions. The test connections to discussion forum is success. I am getting all the forums corresponding to that user in my ui. But I want to get the forum that is associated with my groupspace.
thanks.

Never mind. Got the solution, can get this through servicesMetaData api.

Please Read: NI Discussion Forums Maintenance

Hello Everyone,
In my discussions with Lithium (our forum vendor) regarding performance, they have suggested some maintenance on the forums that could help with our community's performance.
The maintenance is to "trim" subscriptions and floats (floated threads and boards) for all users in the community. This means that if you added a message subscription or floated a thread more than 3 months ago, we would remove the subscription and/or float for you. In long-standing communities like ours, users can build up many subscriptions and floats that can affect the performance of the entire community.
In order to keep the floats and subscriptions that are important to you, you just need to unfloat and re-float the thread, or remove and add the message to your subscriptions again because they will then be newer than 3 months.
I must stress that there is no guarantee that this will have a noticeable benefit for performance, but Lithium has recommended that we try this because it has helped other communities in the past.
I would like to perform this maintenance as soon as possible, but I recognize that it is the holiday season and we must give people adequate notice to take any action they find necessary. Therefore, we will do this maintenance the week of January 7th, specifically either Tuesday January 8th or Thursday January 10th. I will post the specific day after the new year.
Please post any questions or concerns you have to this thread on the Feedback board.
Regards,
Laura
Web Support & Operations
National Instruments
Message Edited by Laura F. on 12-21-2007 11:00 AM

I offer an alternative:
RSS
For the heavy subscription users this is might be drastic shift in workflow, but as LabVIEW users we are used to that.
In my RSS reader (newsfox for Firefox) I have a group called 'discussions' where I have feeds from discussions I'm interested in.
Every thread has it's own RSS feed so you easily follow them.
Besided Discussions I also have trackers feeded through RSS.
Ton
PS This was only stickied to the LabVIEW forum, DIADem users don't use stickies?
PPS Most RSS readers check every thread regurarly, might this be the cause of the slow down now RSS is gaining momentum?
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Please Read: NI Discussion Forums Maintenance

Hello Everyone,
In my discussions with Lithium (our forum vendor) regarding performance, they have suggested some maintenance on the forums that could help with our community's performance.
The maintenance is to "trim" subscriptions and floats (floated threads and boards) for all users in the community. This means that if you added a message subscription or floated a thread more than 3 months ago, we would remove the subscription and/or float for you. In long-standing communities like ours, users can build up many subscriptions and floats that can affect the performance of the entire community.
In order to keep the floats and subscriptions that are important to you, you just need to unfloat and re-float the thread, or remove and add the message to your subscriptions again because they will then be newer than 3 months.
I must stress that there is no guarantee that this will have a noticeable benefit for performance, but Lithium has recommended that we try this because it has helped other communities in the past.
I would like to perform this maintenance as soon as possible, but I recognize that it is the holiday season and we must give people adequate notice to take any action they find necessary. Therefore, we will do this maintenance the week of January 7th, specifically either Tuesday January 8th or Thursday January 10th. I will post the specific day after the new year.
Please post any questions or concerns you have to this thread on the Feedback board.
Regards,
Laura
Web Support & Operations
National Instruments

I offer an alternative:
RSS
For the heavy subscription users this is might be drastic shift in workflow, but as LabVIEW users we are used to that.
In my RSS reader (newsfox for Firefox) I have a group called 'discussions' where I have feeds from discussions I'm interested in.
Every thread has it's own RSS feed so you easily follow them.
Besided Discussions I also have trackers feeded through RSS.
Ton
PS This was only stickied to the LabVIEW forum, DIADem users don't use stickies?
PPS Most RSS readers check every thread regurarly, might this be the cause of the slow down now RSS is gaining momentum?
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Slow to a crawl in the Discussions Forum

Today has been maddeningly slow . It was taking a few minutes to just open a subject , a couple times I timed out and/or the site appeared to actually go down . I am finding it strange that I don't see much mention of this . At first I thought it was my eMac but the Powerbook was also slow and when I tried the PC , it to was slow . This is just in the Apple Discussions Forum everything else is fine so it's not AT&T
A search for "slow" showed up some problems in Nov. that were blamed on "code tweaking" so I assume this may be the same problem . Is there someplace that tells about current issues or problems ? Ebay mentions in advance when they will be doing maintenance .

Hi Kady
Thank you for the info . I thought it was my computer because I was having other troubles .
Was it memory leaks ? It would be nice if something could be posted when things slow down. Hear is some info I found ;
Well, I’m sure you guys and gals know this already, but spend half an hour on the Apple discussion boards at http://discussions.info.apple.com/webx?[email protected]@ , preferably accessing things like “my posts” or other search related activity and you will very soon find some nasty memory leaks.
Most people find that the ‘Real RAM” consumption of Safari goes up from a a few megabytes to over 200MB within 20 minutes or so., at which time very nasty slowdowns occur (40 secs to a minute to open a link on the pages, despite my 1500 ADSL link and an iMac G5 2 GHz with 2 gig of RAM. The problem causes these slowdowns even when I have more than a Gig of RAM completely free.)
A number of Apple Discussion Board Level 4’s have been discussing this problem and reporting exactly the same experience. We have been wondering whether to blame you, Apple , Javascript, or Web Crossing. Many people who use this board regularly are simply shifting to other browsers to avoid the problem.
The leak can be overcome to a large extent by disabling javascript, but this is a very annoying way to have to deal with the issue. Spend half an hour on these boards and I’m sure you will soon get some relevant information!
Cheers
Rod

Right place to submit bug reports for the discussions forums?

I know you can post suggestions here regarding how the Discussions system may be improved, but I'd just like to record a bug somewhere and then be informed if and when it is ever fixed. I'm thinking of something like the bugreporter web app that apple makes available. Anyone know about anything like that?

Tom Gewecke wrote:
You'd be surprised.
With pleasure!
Try it with bugreport.apple.com. Need to be a registered ADC Member, but that frees. Be sure to pick a bug that is reproducible with a simple step by step recipe on the most current software.
So what is this bug you have been talking about?
Recurring complaint of mine:
March 2006 [If the RSS feeds contained pubDate and author that would be great!|http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=1892109#1892109]
April 2008 [better rss feeds without jf namespace prefix|http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1468264&tstart=189]
The RSS feeds are almost useful. They actually include the author and create date information, but do so in a format that neither safari or any other garden variety RSS reader handles.
Jive's own documentation on the subject [Jive Community: Content Syndication via RSS|http://www.jivesoftware.com/community/docs/DOC-1022] recommends reformatting the output to suit the needs of your audience in the section titled "*Displaying RSS (or, actually doing something with this stuff)*".
It seems the jf: prefixed tags aren't meant to be pushed out to the RSS clients. I certainly haven't found a RSS reader that deals with them correctly or lets you workaround them. So although the feeds have a creation date, modification date, author, and reply count, none of that information can be seen in a garden variety RSS reader. This is particularly a problem for the create date, since the create date of each article is replaced with the pub date of the feed. The pub date of the feed is the time when you pull it down, and that changes each time the feed is refreshed.
Anyway ... it seems to me that it would be a small and correct change that would take the existing RSS offerings that last inch into the realm of useful. Maybe I'll be surprised.

The discussion forum's search box still has rendering glitches.

It has been reported several times but is not fixed yet. In Safari 4 the search box is being rendered like this: http://imgur.com/tRAic
Somebody fix this please! It is very distracting!
Cheers,
Behi

Not if you click on the Discussions link in Apple.com > Support > Discussions > Using Apple Discussions > Feedback about Discussions
It goes to a page that says "Welcome, Guest" (even though I'm logged in) with s mangled search box.
This also happens when I click on the Return to Forum link at the top of the thread.
Message was edited by: romad

PROBLEMS SINCE THE DISCUSSIONS FORUM CHANGED

Since Apple changed the Discussions section, I've had problems. This used to be the best system of all of the groups I used. Now, it's hard to find what I'm looking for. The boolean operators don't function properly. When I searched "fonts AND book", I got results including "and" being highlighted, got results without both words that were supposed to be there, and still don't know if the problem with iPhoto fonts when making books is here. I'll keep looking...

Hi H!
From any Discussions page, click on more options, located directly below Search Discussions. Above Welcome, your User Alias.
On the window that opens, click on Search Tips, located to the right of the Search radio button.
ali b

What happened to the search in the discussion forum?

It seems we have lost the ability to "search" in the forum. Is it just my Mac or can we not search anymore?

Greetings,
With the popularity of the iPhone and it's related discussion areas, we have experienced heavy usage and reduced availability of Apple Discussions today. In order to improve site performance, we have temporarily disabled the following site features:
* Search
* Read tracking (the "blue dots")
* Subscription emails
We are working to restore these features as soon as possible.
Thank you for your patience during this unprecedented and exciting period in Apple's history.
Regards,
Apple Discussions staff
Please see http://discussions.apple.com/ann.jspa?annID=382 for the actual posting

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