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I don't know if this feature would be of interest to anyone else. It certainly would be extremely useful for us.


I run a forum which gives free consumer law advice in the UK. We have 400,000 members over the last 19 years.


Many row threads/topics can go on for many pages as we help people with litigation against companies. There is a lot of uploading of PDF documents from both sides and eventually it is very difficult for these things to get lost in the middle of the discussion and we have to work our way through them to find them again if we need them.

It would be great if somehow or other at the top of each topic there was a list of included attachments so that either our members or the staff could simply click the one they wanted and it would open up.

Alternatively, clicking the attachment icon could go to the place in the thread where it had been uploaded and we could then upload the attachment and also see the context in which it had been inserted.


Thanks

1 hour ago, BankFodder said:

and a version 5 keyword tooltips

Something similar:

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    Thank you. This looks very interesting indeed.

    A couple of comments though – first of all it looks rather more complicated to set up than the keyword tooltips application from @Adriano Faria but more significantly for us, we have been using the keyword tooltips application for quite a number of years and there is a lot of data already linked.

    With a completely new system we would have to go through an entry to all again by hand and we probably have at least 150 or 200 different links. Whereas I'm hoping that when @Adriano Faria produces his version 5 upgrade, we will simply be able to use the existing data.


    Adiano says that he hasn't made many sales of this keywords tooltips application. I have to say this amazes me because it is so fantastically useful and saves a huge amount of repetitive information giving and having to define things again and again and again for people.

    If we didn't have it then the job of our site team would be very difficult indeed and the people who come to us for help would be far less informed because we would be up to keep up with it

    7 minutes ago, BankFodder said:

    Adiano says that he hasn't made many sales of this keywords tooltips application. I have to say this amazes me because it is so fantastically useful and saves a huge amount of repetitive information giving and having to define things again and again and again for people.

    I will update mine but it will require a full rewrite due to the way it is built. It uses custom class for everything (DB, Forms, etc.); It’s really a mess and a pain to update it the way it is.

    Still missing 5 or 6 “big” apps then I’ll certainly do it.

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