Ocean West

I use this link: Today's Active Content Which in my opinion seems buried at the bottom of the main forum index. And not visible anywhere else as a link on other pages. I'd rather have that at the top left in lieu of "View New Content" from what i can tell has many in uproar over the feature. Once there it shows all the entries the tabs then displayed are Help Files | Forums | Members | Blogs | Calendar | Gallery | Customer Resources | Community Downloads Now if I perform a Quick Search the results page shows the order of the tabs as... Forums | Members | Help Files | Blogs | Calendar | Gallery | Customer Resources | Community Downloads The tabs should remain consistent. The results of the search presents a topic PREVIEW showing a few hundred characters surrounding the term supplied. I want that PREVIEW showing the first few hundred characters from the topic/post for the link above.

thanks for the links but the "feed" is - please take no offense - just 'ugly' and does't even resemble a forum but rather a "rss reader" i wish for a more integrated user experience one that they are familiar with in regards graphical interface they face with when they read the forums in a hierarchal method, form the TOP DOWN - Category - Forum - Subforum - Topic - Reply.... My wish is for more interactive approach users being able to tangibly choose and display data as requested. After all the content of the site is database and should be able to be displayed in a fashion that users are expecting -reverse chronological order - non in a structured fashion. There are different users that use forums one that is topic driven and can circumnavigate a sites hierarchy, to zero into their desired destination. And then their the power users who want to consume all content as it comes in regardless where - either as their duties a moderator or just because that is the way we've done it for nearly a decade and that's why i wish to keep it ;) The link at the bottom is a step closer in getting some of the information - however i am getting frustrated trying to understand the entire underpinnings of the engine as it is - to no fault of yours or IPS it just VERRY different architecturally structured engine from what i am use to. So please, forgive me if I am a bit out of sorts, but I am trying shift not only a site over but understand if I can even provide feature enhancements as I haven't yet found the "Dummy's Guide

I don't want a block of this info but actually i want a page that pulls the details, of Recent activity, New Content. But be able to step back thru dates. This is a mod i have on my site (other forum software ) and can't for the life figure out were to begin on how to adapt it on IPB http://www.screencast.com/users/oceanwest/folders/Jing/media/017e87dd-062c-4f03-bc8c-bc968bf74ab5 http://fmforums.com/forum/recent_activity.php?type/posts/

I have been perusing thru the forums here and feel that the site organization is a bit frustrating. There are several boards for the same product but in a different category: IPS Company Feedback -> IP.Board Peer-To-Peer Technical Support -> IP.Board Product Modifications -> IP.Board Tracker -> IP.Board Although I appreciate that it is grouped by General area topic then by specific product when researching or reviewing the product it would be most helpful to have all forums for that product in one section. It would be great if there were a way to create an Alias of forums and categories so that you could group existing content and not have to have disparate conversations that span different categories. Example Product Forums ( A category ) -- IP.Board ( A Category ) ---Feedback ---Peer-To-Peer Technical Support ---Product Modifications ---Tracker The above "alias" forums would appear in the forums lists. they would serve to organize existing forums. Just a few ideas ;) S

if i had more access (pre-sales) I wouldn't probably have waited over a week sitting on the fence - i could have seen different content and would have helped me make decision - quicker. Now that I am a member I don't see the harm in granting full access even to products that I don't have - as they may be something i want to add in the future so it would help in the long run making a decision fully informed. my 2

The folder hierarchy and file naming convention totally escapes me - i realize there is a great deal of abstraction but what would help me immensely to get familiar with the site is to get to know from the back end what each and every file's purpose. I would like to see a something more than a terse phrase for each file in every folder of the hierarchy ( images are obvious ) FOLDER - general description & purpose -- FILENAME - general description & purpose -- FILENAME - general description & purpose -- FOLDER - general description & purpose --- FILENAME - general description & purpose Or even if at all possible an excell spread sheet of the exploded hierarchy ( also include the preferred permissions on files and folders numerical and long form permission notation IE: ( 777 and drwxrwxrwx )

I'd like to see the upload folder be managed a bit cleaner instead of one huge bucket to store all files have it organize the files in directories. in a YEAR / MONTH fashion and all files uploaded in that month year contained within. 2009 --- 10 ------ image.jpg