Hey, Frans. Any word on the LLBLGen v2 version of your forum software you mentioned a few months ago?

Jeff

We're currently beyond milestone 2 and working towards milestone 3 which is the milestone on which we'll release it.

Milestone 2 was the milestone where we would have ported everything over to .NET 2.0, llblgen pro v2.0 and have implemented all missing forms in the administration section, as well as ported all the hungarian coding over to normal coding style. (this forum was written in 2002 with the old llblgen 1.21 dal generator and is ported to llblgen pro bits by bits during the years but still relied on views and procs for 30% or so.)

In milestone 3 we'll just add new features. Below is the list of new features for M3: * CSS usage is now too messy, it should be cleaned up. Usage of ASP.NET 2.0 skins? * Add a user preferences section * Help page is out of date. * ThreadListInterval default should be defined in the forum entity DONE * User last visit tracking should be done in the profile. DONE * Add Custom Error page * Show list of last 50 (or so) threads in which user has posted in the profile DONE * 'New messages' marking should be done more cleverly DONE * Add 'private thread' feature * Sections and Forums should have an order in which they're listed * Threads should get a # of views counter DONE * Ability to attach a file to a posting and/or thread * Ability to email a user when a new post is made in a thread * Active threads should be managed through queues. DONE

What we want to achieve is that the forum software gets a private section in which registered users can start threads which are visible to only support team members, admins and the thread starter. This then allows us to drop the helpdesk system we're currently using which has proven to be not that useful to us. The main gripe is that there are two queues to look for questions to answer. With the new support queue system implemented, it's very easy and support team members can move threads to different queues, claim threads etc.

There's still work to be done but I'm confident it's done by the end of october. It will be released with full sourcecode and a friendly OSS license (have to select which one) as an example how to use a part of the LLBLGen Pro featureset in a real world application.

We're still looking for a name for it though. If any of you has a suggestion, let us know

What we want to achieve is that the forum software gets a private section in which registered users can start threads which are visible to only support team members, admins and the thread starter. This then allows us to drop the helpdesk system we're currently using which has proven to be not that useful to us. The main gripe is that there are two queues to look for questions to answer. With the new support queue system implemented, it's very easy and support team members can move threads to different queues, claim threads etc.

I did wonder how you will be able to get rid ofthe helpdesk system...now I know ....bit of leteral thinking goes a long way.

Any thoughts of Spell checker as a new feature?

Firefox builds that in in v2.0 of Firefox. Don't know about IE, but there are no plans to build it into the forumsystem.

Otis wrote:

• Ability to email a user when a new post is made in a thread

I would propose that you make sure you have the usual options to limit this feature / turn it off in user preferences

Otis wrote:

We're still looking for a name for it though. If any of you has a suggestion, let us know

fO/RuM

jaschag wrote:

Otis wrote:

• Ability to email a user when a new post is made in a thread

I would propose that you make sure you have the usual options to limit this feature / turn it off in user preferences

Yes. A user preference section is added and you can set there if you want to have this switched on per thread or not, then when you post in a thread the checkbox for subscribing on notifications is set by the setting set in the user preference. Also for the checkbox on the message list so you can unsubscribe.

Otis wrote:

We're still looking for a name for it though. If any of you has a suggestion, let us know

fO/RuM

heh

Otis wrote:

Firefox builds that in in v2.0 of Firefox. Don't know about IE, but there are no plans to build it into the forumsystem.

Just down loaded IE 7 and spell check is built in!

Still, I'm not convinced IE7 is something I want... but FF has spelchecking build in soon as well

sparmar2000 wrote:

Otis wrote:

Firefox builds that in in v2.0 of Firefox. Don't know about IE, but there are no plans to build it into the forumsystem.

Just down loaded IE 7 and spell check is built in!

Ops I think I made a mistake. IE does NOT have spell check - my mistake. Apologies.

You can already do spell checking in FF with the Spellbound extension - http://spellbound.sourceforge.net/

netclectic wrote:

You can already do spell checking in FF with the Spellbound extension - http://spellbound.sourceforge.net/

You can do spell checking in IE7 with IESpell add-on also.

BOb

pilotboba wrote:

netclectic wrote:

You can already do spell checking in FF with the Spellbound extension - http://spellbound.sourceforge.net/

You can do spell checking in IE7 with IESpell add-on also.

BOb

Google Toolbar has awesome spell check