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Bug in Idea exchange!
Solved!
I made the mistake of reply to an idea in the Idea Exchange and now my tracker shows new updates that no matter how many times I go there, still show up as new.
How can I clear that?
Lacking being able to clear it, could you just delete my post!
i rely on my tracker to follow-up and a message getting stuck as un-read is a real pain in the ...
Ben
Somebodys precognotion slipped a bit.... (Oh NO I'Ve gotta say it)
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tst wrote:When I saw the thread title, I thought "Yes? What's your point?". Basically, the design problems with the exchange are so annoying that they give a feeling that the entire feature is one big bug.
My. Sentiments. Exactly. 
Some of my biggest gripes:
- When you perform a search on the Idea Exchange, it brings up results only on the Exchange. If you immediately type in a new search, it does not search the Exchange, it searches the entire LabVIEW forum.
- We cannot Kudos individual responses - this one is BIG. A lot of times, a decent-to-mediocre idea is presented, but the conversation leads to better ideas than the first idea. I bet many people will skip over a mediocre title and not read the good comments.
- Page navigation... seriously? When you "View Comments" on an idea, you can only navigate to next pages one at a time. There needs to be a 1 2 3 4 ... 8 9 10 page navigation scheme or something. Getting to the most recent comments on an idea with plenty of comments is painfully slow (good example, View Cluster Constant as Icon). Same goes with the Ideas themselves... you can only go through Next or Previous... same need for a numbered page nav scheme
- There's a misbalance in votes between new and old ideas. Newer ideas are going to have more exposure since more people follow the forum now than they did June 2009. That doesn't mean old ideas are worse (actually, there's a significantly higher ratio of really good ideas at the very beginning, when the gurus jumped on and unloaded the feature requests they have been brewing for years!) I know this is a difficult problem by nature to solve, but one idea would be adding Random in addition to Hot, Top, and New Idea sorting options.
- Let's be honest: Some Ideas Are Not Going to be Implemented, because They Are Not Going to Receive Any Votes. TAKE 1 MINUTE TO THINK ABOUT!!!!!!!! I would LOVE to see a new Idea Status called "Will not be implemented", and by default, this Idea Status is excluded from every single view unless you specifically click on that Idea Status filter. I think that Ideas that get this label should have just a short explanation by the NI member who marks the Idea as such as to why they will not be considered for implementation. These Ideas can still receive votes, and it could turn out that popular demand trumps R&D pressure (very unlikely scenario, but still, I think these Ideas should still allow you to vote for them)
- Speaking of excluding Ideas, go ahead and filter out Ideas that are In Beta, Completed, and Duplicate. Those ideas are now just noise obscuring the ideas that are still in "limbo".
- Allow users to create polls as part of an Idea. For instance, a lot of times I will see an idea like "I really want this feature. Here's an illustration of it implemented as a Context Menu item." I think to myself "I like the Idea, but I would die to see it as a Context Menu item, and I would rejoice to see it as a keyboard shortcut". So.... do I vote yes or no? And if I decided to Kudos the idea, but write my comment, have the 50 other people agreed with me or with the original implementation? A powerful, flexible way for the community to implement "polls" would simply be #2 - allow Kudos for individual responses. The Idea could be "I want this feature", and then the original poster could reply to his own post with 2 separate posts with different implementations that you could vote on.
- How about the full-featured text-editing toolbar when posting a response? We only get a very slimmed-down version.
- Be able to quote replies, not just original post
- Have someone go through and mark all the duplicates, there's still several of the older ones that should be marked.
- If a post is marked as a duplicate, merge it as a "Reply" on the original post (This would actually eliminate the Duplicate Idea Status)
- Large pictures horizontally obscure items in the right pane
- Allow a much longer edit time after the idea is posted, say one hour.
- The Idea Status "New" is a misnomer. I don't know what to replace it with...
- If R&D is seriously considering a select pool of Ideas, make them a status of "In Consideration". This is a clue to the community to start commenting and voting yes or no on those ideas, since Judgment Day is impending and the ideas will soon be marked as "In Development" or "Will Not be Implemented" or just stripped of the "In Consideration" status.
In a nutshell: make the Idea Exchange have the same handy features as the other LabVIEW boards, and give users better filtering tools to evaluate the ideas that are really worth evaluating.
