iMIS Community web site

Problem posting CSS Guide to iMIS Community

I tried to put an HTML version of the CSS Guide on iMIS Community, to make access easier and be more consistent with the other standards, and ran into two problems:

  1. The <th> tag is not allowed.
  2. I cannot use the <style> tag to include embedded styles at the beginning of the document.

Are there easy ways around either of these?

How to post code to imiscommunity

In my posting on setting up a custom home page for iMIS 15

http://www.imiscommunity.com/setting_up_an_imis_15_home_page_dashboard

I needed to be able to post code, however I found that it kept being interpreted by site rather than displaying the code itself.

The way I got around it was two-fold:

1. Use <pre> tags to format the code sections and make them clear;
2. Copy and paste each code section into notepad and run a find and replace on the > and < characters, replacing them with &gt; and &lt; and using this as the code to display on the forum

Disabling Notifications

Is there a way to disable notification temporarily for a part of the community, preferably with one notice being sent when it is turned back on?

This would be very useful at times when a lot of editing is going on, such as with the Terminology Standards or Design Patterns, where there are lots of subtopics to one topic. Also, it would help when

  • you need to repeatedly edit somet

Truncated entries

On a number of occasions, I have found that my entries to iC were truncated when I posted or previewed them. I have been meaning to post about this, and kept putting it off. Today it happened twice, and after the first time, I started copying to the clipboard before I submitted. As a result, the second instance allowed me to document what was in the edit box before and after I clicked "Preview." Furthermore, observing the two instances, I think it may be due to using the Google spell checker. Also, switching between normal and rich-text mode may have something to do with it.

Community site becoming unwieldy

I've noticed this site is becoming unwieldy. Sorting forums within the site by recent posts looks at the number, not the control factor (e.g. 1 Year sorts before 12 Minutes). Plus there are so many forum topics popping up that are all getting posted under one major heading, like "Emerging Technologies" that it takes more time to find anything than it does to read it.

 Can you look into correcting the columnar sort to actually sort by minute? Another really good feature would be to allow at least an Advanced search to seach based on date range (if input). For example, search for "iMIS 15" and your get tons of forum topics most are very old and involve the Beta releases. It would be great to be able to search for "iMIS 15" where new posts "within 90 days"

Cannot attach .docx files

Could we add .docx files (created by Word 2007) to the list of types that can be attached to iMIS Community posts?

How to build an iMIS/Google mashup in 5 minutes or less

Mark B. mentioned this at our Dev staff meeting. 

I recently ran across a very useful tool "WyaWidget - Widget Creator" that allows you to create a widget and place it onto your Google Personalized Homepage (Also, Netvibes & Pageflakes). I'm sure there are other tools out there that are similar but this one caught my attention because it is completely web-based and simple, some of the interface is a bit rough but it is totally usable. Not only can you build a quick widget directly from you Google homepage but they also have a web based tool that allows you to build web apps, modify any you created through Google and also change your data schema ( Similar to BOA ).  

Additional HTML elements allowed in posts

Would it be possible to allow the <strike> element in posts in addition to the current list?

Delete a test blog post

A while back I had problems creating a blog post. Th posting problem is now resolved. But in order to test that this I create two test posts. Now I can not find a way to delete these. Does anyone know how?

Can't nest list elements in a post using HTML list tags

One frustrating deficiency with this community tool is that list elements cannot be nested, either via rich-text or by honoring list HTML tags.

For example, the following HTML should nest unordered items:

<ul>
<li>list element</li>
<ul>
<li>nested element</li>
</ul>
</ul>

However, that code yields this:

  • list element