INVITATION & FORUM DEMO

Summary:

Please experiment with posting replies and new threads to familiarize yourself with how the Discussion Forum works.

NEED FOR GSA MEMBERS PUBLIC POLICY DIALOG AND INPUT

Jim Davis 09 Feb 2009 06:23

NEED FOR GSA MEMBERS PUBLIC POLICY DIALOG AND INPUT

PLEASE CREATE A NEW "THREAD" ON AN ISSUE THAT EACH OF YOU FEEL WILL INFORM AND STIMULATE GSA MEMBERS TO ENTER INTO A E-DIALOG (I HATE THE TERM BLOGGING) ON A RIPE REGIONAL, STATE OR LOCAL ISSUE FOR POSSIBLE MEMBER INPUT IN YOUR SECTION. I LOOK FORWARD TO YOUR REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE ON OUR GSA POLICYCOMNET.

JIM

Last edited on 10 Feb 2009 01:43 by Jim Davis Show more

Re: NEED FOR GSA MEMBERS PUBLIC POLICY DIALOG AND INPUT

Jim Davis 09 Feb 2009 07:05

I AM REPLYING TO MY OWN NEW THREAD POST ABOVE BY CLICKING ON "REPLY" IN THE LOWER RIGHT CORNER BELOW FIRST POST. YOU WILL FIND THAT THE TEXT GOES OFF THE PAGE WHEN YOU ARE TYPING YOUR TEXT. TO EDIT THE TEXT, CLICK ON "PREVIEW" WHICH IS A BUTTON ON THE LOWER LEFT HAND SIDE ONCE YOU HAVE CREATED YOUR DIALOG BOX TO ENTER YOUR RESPONSE. YOU WILL THEN BE ABLE TO SEE THE ENTIRE TEXT AND CAN EDIT IT.

I ALSO FIND IT HELPLFUL TO CLICK ON PREVIEW WHILE I AM COMPOSING THE MESSAGE IN ORDER TO GET THE ENTIRE TEXT UP TO THAT POINT IN FRONT OF ME. AS SOON AS YOU COME TO THE END OF THE BOX WITH YOUR LINE YOU WILL FIND IT DISAPPEARING AGAIN SO YOU MAY WISH TO CLICK ON PREVIEW TO GET IT ALL IN FRONT OF YOU AGAIN. IT IS SOMEWHAT AWKWARD BUT IT WORKS. CLICK PREVIEW AFTER YOU HAVE COMPLETED THE TEXT AND GET IT ALL UP AGAIN. WHEN THE TEXT IS THE WAY YOU WANT IT CLICK ON "POST IT AND YOUR TEXT IS UP FOR CONSIDERATION AND CANNOT BE EDITED!

ANY ONE WHO WISHES TO RESPOND CAN CREATE A REPLY BY CLICKING ON THE REPLY BUTTON. THEY CAN START A NEW THREAD BY CLICKING ON "NEW POST". PLEASE MAKE YOUR COMMENTS TO THIS MESSAGE IN A NEW REPLY TO ME. PLEASE ALSO THEN CREATE YOUR OWN NEW SUBJECT UNDER THE THREAD TITLE THAT IS SUPPLEMENTARY. YOU MAY THEN START A NEW THREAD ON A DIFFREENT IMPORTANT POLICY ISSUE OF YOUR CHOICE BY GOING TO THE TOP OF THE PAGE AND CLICKING THE LINE "POLICY DISCUSSION BY AREA/NORTH-CENTRAL" AND YOU WILL GET A NEW PAGE WITH "CREATE A NEW THREAD" WHICH YOU CAN CLICK ON.

WHEN YOU HAVE CREATED SOME TEXT AND CLICK PREVIEW, YOU CAN SCROLL UP ABOVE THE BOX IN WHICH YOU ARE MAKING YOUR ENTRY AND SEE THE "POST PREVIEW" WHICH LOOKS JUST LIKE YOUR MESSAGE WILL AFTER IT IS POSTED BUT THE FONT IS NOT IN BOLD UNTIL YOU HAVE POSTED IT.

PLEASE GIVE ME A CALL AT 916 616 2888 TO TELL ME YOU HAVE MADE A REPLY AND CREATED A NEW THREAD.

HAVE FUN!!!

JIM

Last edited on 09 Feb 2009 20:38 by Jim Davis Show more

Re: NEED FOR GSA MEMBERS PUBLIC POLICY DIALOG AND INPUT

geolojon 17 Feb 2009 22:38

Aha! Once I've logged in through wikidot, then I'm allowed to respond. I received my application response at 2:05 PM last Saturday. It takes several minutes for Wikidot to respond once you submit your application text. Had I gone in last Saturday and logged in first to wikidot, then I could have successfully replied to Jim's various entries on the North-Central Section site. There is the annoying fact that the message you're writing runs off the page. You can click on preview, but as soon as you start typing the text disappears on the right side until it has reached the invisible right edge of the block.

I'll now try introducing a new thread on the FutureGen project.

Jon.

Link to a Forum thread from a Community page

geosociety 10 Mar 2009 23:13

You can link from a discussion thread to the pages in the Community section and vice-versa if you wish. Here's how.

To add a link to a discussion thread in your Community page

1. Navigate to the targeted discussion thread item.
2. At the end of that entry there are two links on the right ( reply | options ).
3. Click on "options".
4. Then click on "permanent link".
5. Copy that URL.
6. Navigate back to your Community page and get back into edit mode by clicking on "edit" at the bottom of the page.
7. Position your cursor where you want the link.
8. Click on the "URL link" icon in the editing toolbar (it looks like a chain).
9. You'll get code inserted that looks like this: [http://www.example.com describe link].
10. Replace the URL there with the one you copied in step 5.
11. Replace "describe link" with whatever text you want as a hyperlink.

Last edited on 10 Mar 2009 23:42 by geosociety Show more

Link to a Community page from the Forum

geosociety 10 Mar 2009 23:34

Did you know that you can link to a Community page from a Discussion Forum post.

To add a link to a Community page in your discussion thread

1. Navigate to the targeted Community page
2. Look in your browser's address bar and copy the file name (everything following the slash after the .com). For example, on this URL: "http://policycomnet.wikidot.com/lessons-learned:test6", take only this much: "lessons-learned:test6".
3. Navigate back to your discussion thread. Just below your post at the right you'll see two links ( reply | options ).
4. Click on "options".
5. Then click on edit.
6. Position your cursor where you want to insert the link and click on the "page link" icon in the editing toolbar (looks like a chain in a box). It will insert code that looks like this: [[[page name]]].
7. Replace "page name" with the file name that you copied in step 2.
8. If you want the hyperlink text to be more descriptive than the file name, simply add a space and pipe character "|" after the page name and add the hyperlink text you prefer. Like this: [[[lessons-learned:test6 | Lessons Learned Example]]].

Last edited on 10 Mar 2009 23:40 by geosociety Show more