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Sujatha PJ Reddy
Community Manager
Community Manager
September 12, 2019
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Welcome to the new InDesign community!

  • September 12, 2019
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We are so excited to have you join us on your creative journey with InDesign.

 

My name is Sujatha Reddy and I am your community manager responsible for managing this community along with Om Nath Jha. My team and our community of experts will continue to guide and assist you as usual in this new space.

 

We hope you like the new experience!

If you have any questions or comments about this new community, feel free to post here. We are listening.

    44 replies

    pixelwerk
    Participating Frequently
    September 19, 2019

    Hi again!
    Somehow I got this reply to my request to access old threads (cant find this answer here, only in my mail fom Adobe Support Community):

    Well, I am new to Extendscript, so I do searches every day on google, most of the hits I get links to Adobe Support Community, and are now totally irrelevant.

    Please restore all old threads, the fact that they are inactive doesn’t mean they do not have great content.

    Cheers
    Johan

     

    My most recent search pointing to a dead end:

    https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1669349

    Supreme_Chancellor
    Inspiring
    September 19, 2019

    I'm in the same boat, It's made making any progress in learning extendScript next to impossible. I created a uservoice request here: https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/913162-adobe-indesign-sdk-scripting-bugs-and-features/suggestions/38587930-separate-the-indesign-scripting-forum-from-the-ind

    Also, I saw that reply on this thread at some point, but I think it was deleted.

    pixelwerk
    Participating Frequently
    September 19, 2019
    Weird that the answer disappeared... but most things in this forum seems weird since the "improvement" ;).
    jane-e
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    September 18, 2019

    Hi

     

    This alert showed up and I clicked it twice. Although it brings me to this thread, I cannot find Om's message to read all of it. It must be buried somewhere in here?

     

    ~ Jane

     

     

    Supreme_Chancellor
    Inspiring
    September 18, 2019
    Its a reply to the second post, good luck finding it since you have to manually drop down the replys and half of them are empty.
    Inspiring
    September 19, 2019

    Wow. I hope this is one of the things they’re looking at fixing.

     

    this turns the classic “it’s not a bug, it’s a feature” on its head. Clearly this is an intended feature that’s effectively a bug.

    Inspiring
    September 18, 2019

    I've now gotten two emails that have the same message, but that don't link back to a message on the forum. Can't tell from the email if this is a private message or what. This is what the message says:

     

    > Hi, The older threads which had no activities have been archived. If there's anything specific which you want us to bring back, feel free to let me know. I'll try to get the content back. Please share the title of that thread, if you have it saved, so that I can check it.

     

    There's no author indicated in the email. Has anyone else seen this? Seems like this may be coming from an Adobe employee.

     

    And if this is the solution they're proposing, oh boy, what a mess.  a) how are we supposed to know what the old messages are that should be unarchived if we don't have access to the archive? b) what sense does it make to unarrchive messages one at a time? c) the criteria they used for archiving old threads, i.e. threads "which had no activities", is vague - what's that mean?

     

    Lawrence Horwitz

    BobLevine
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    September 18, 2019
    Hi Lawrence, as I replied to Dirk, yes, the current system is horribly broken. I'm told it's being worked on and should be fixed soon to match the old forum. I have no idea how it get launched this way.
    Legend
    September 24, 2019

    Hi Bob,

    Any idea when this might be fixed?

     

    What was a very good tool / learning resource is now ruined.

     

    All the best.

     

    P.

    Legend
    September 18, 2019

    As someone reading the forums by email subscription, I have some more negative observations:
    In better/previous forum systems the author of any original message or response would be indicated by the "From:" field. WebEx did that, Jive did that. Even the PR forums does it. Now we just get a noisy "Adobe Support Community Mailer".
    Next, it would be a very useful feature to preserve the subject, eventually prefix it with a "Re: ". In combination with appropriately maintained email fields such as "In-Reply-To:", this allows most email clients to sort&display messages in threads.
    Instead, in some cases the new forum just copies a part of the response into the subject, leaving us completely out of context so we have to click thru to the original thread at the web site. Then, click "more answers" to expand and see it was irrelevant anyway.
    Of course email subscriptions would be even better if messages contained the full contents, not just the first paragraph. If saving screen space is the intention, I could easily live without the fat, colorful "Adobe Support Community" banner on top.
    Even more space savings are possible: The forum should not precede every message with "Hello your_name". I definitely know my name, I don't need a robot repeat it to me hundreds of times. When I fly thru emails, this should be a primary eye catcher to find messages addressed to me by the actual writer.

    BobLevine
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    September 18, 2019
    Yeah, the email system is horribly broken and I don't know how this was launched this way, but I've been assured it's going to be fixed soon.
    Inspiring
    September 18, 2019

    Hi,

    where is the best place to post this please?

     

    Hi there.

    Using InDesign, I am trying to re-format a supplied Word Document, coming from the client. 

    There are lots of complex (to me anyway) formulas in the text, which disappear when imported.

     

    I'm using a work-around ... "Printing a PDF" from the supplied document and then "placing" in a picture box in my InDesign Doc, but really, in 2019, there must be another way (which is 100 times more time efficient)?

     

    Any help appreciated.

    Om Nath Jha
    Legend
    September 18, 2019
    Hi, The best place to post this would be in the UserVoice. Here's the link: https://indesign.uservoice.com. Are you placing the Word document in InDesign or copying the content/text?
    Legend
    September 17, 2019

    Hi. I haven't been to the forum in a few weeks, but I do turn to it whenever I have a problem or need advice, and it has alwasy come through -- often within minutes. However, I was shocked to see the new format. I find it far less usable in all ways than the previous format, and not juse because I'm not used to it. There is less information on the screen -- this makes it harder to scan material. Topicality seems to be missing. It's just altogether clumsier. Perhaps the new design is meant to accommodate those who use the forum exclusively on their mobile phones? But frankly, I don't know an InDesign user who does NOT use a desktop computer (or a lappie with a big screen attached). Why the reformat? Sorry. It's awkward.

    Inspiring
    September 17, 2019

    I just want to second Dirk's comment, as well as that of many others - not having access to the old forum messages is a disaster. It's a wealth of helpful information that is helpful for everyone from amateur to expert. You just have to bring the archives back and make them easily searchable.

    pixelwerk
    Participating Frequently
    September 17, 2019

    Hello @Sujatha_Reddy
    "If you have any questions or comments about this new community, feel free to post here. We are listening."
    I get the feeling noone is listening... Why do all hits from Google to this forum end up on the front page?
    I can't get any info from Adobe Support Community via Google, what a waste of loads of wisdom.
    Regards
    Johan

    Srishti Bali
    Community Manager
    Community Manager
    October 15, 2019

    Hi Johan,

     

    Sorry about the delay, but we are listening and passing on your feedback continuously to the Product team. The older threads, which had no activities, have been archived and that is why it is being redirected to the main page. If there's anything specific which you want us to bring back, feel free to let me know. I'll try to get the content back. Please share the title of that thread, if you have it saved, so that I can check it.

    vinny38
    Legend
    October 15, 2019

    Hi. "No activities"? What about reading or searching activities ? Let's make it straight and square: WE WANT THOSE THREADS BACK! 

    Supreme_Chancellor
    Inspiring
    September 17, 2019

    One more Q. Is there any reason my screen name (Supreme_Chancellor) is not showing up? Not a big fan of 58234121

    hervéd27755221
    Participant
    September 16, 2019

    Bonjour,
    J'avais 2 questions : 
     1 - Comment lancer une recherche mais uniquement dans la partie "Scritping" d'InDesign ?
    J'ai essayé en saisissant "[scripting]" dans le champ de recherche, puis ensuite ce que je recherche, par exemple:
    "[scripting] pageItems".
    J'obtiens 157 résulats, qui portent tous le label "scripting" mais je ne peux en voir que quelques uns. Le site ne m'afiche qu'une page de résultats ! Comment voir la suite des 157 résultats ?
    Ma deuxième question est celle-ci, quelle que soit la recherche que je lance seule la première page des résultats est visible :
    2 - Comment voir tous les résultats d'une recherche ?