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Sujatha PJ Reddy
Community Manager
Community Manager
September 12, 2019
Question

Welcome to the new InDesign community!

  • September 12, 2019
  • 44 replies
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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

    Known Participant
    September 14, 2019

    Great, now all search result from google redirect to main page. 
    Why would you do something like that?

    Srishti Bali
    Community Manager
    Community Manager
    October 15, 2019
    Hi, the older threads, which had no activities, have been archived and that is why it is being redirected to the main page.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.
    Ksmile
    Participant
    September 13, 2019

    I make a lot of documents in InDesign that I use in a variety of channels. Lately, I've had a few documents that my dev team wants to convert into online something or others. The dev team member who works on these projects says he doesn't have a design eye and asks me to redline out all the particulars of the document (font size, the exact location of each line by inches, etc.). Doing this for him is extremely time consuming. Does InDesign have a selection box I can click on that would provide these kinds of details so I don't have to manually determine them for him? THANKS!!

    rob day
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    September 13, 2019

    As Mike points out (I can no longer refer to his post because there are no post numbers) the default to Relevant makes it very difficult for ACP and MVP members to methodically answer recent questions. I’m not even sure what relevance means—relevant to what when I haven’t searched for anything?

    jane-e
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    September 13, 2019

    From Dirk:

    “Will older messages get restored at some time? Loss of the archive was a major pain when Webex was dumped in favor of Jive back in 2007, but apparently someone decided to repeat that mistake. Are countless hours of volunteer work discarded again?”

     

    We have been told they have been archived, not deleted.

    Mike Witherell
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    September 13, 2019

    Is there a way to have it default to "Latest" instead of "Relevant"?

    Mike Witherell
    rob day
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    September 16, 2019

    Also even when I choose Latest, the order is by the original post date and not the replys. So current discussions quickly get buried and lost.

    Srishti Bali
    Community Manager
    Community Manager
    October 15, 2019
    Rob, we are passing on your feedback continuously to the Product team and this issue has been addressed. Please check and let us know if you need any further assistance.
    pixelwerk
    Participating Frequently
    September 13, 2019

    Sadly, when I get a hit on Google the link goes to the start page of https://community.adobe.com/

    The link from google was:

    https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1105581

    Too bad 😕😕

    Legend
    September 13, 2019
    Are you interested in syntax errors in general, or do you need Vamitul's particular solution? It was an error in the invoked JSX ...
    pixelwerk
    Participating Frequently
    September 19, 2019
    Oh, you replied to my question... didn't get that before.
    Legend
    September 12, 2019

    Will older messages get restored at some time? Loss of the archive was a major pain when Webex was dumped in favor of Jive back in 2007, but apparently someone decided to repeat that mistake. Are countless hours of volunteer work discarded again?

     

    For the InDesign user forums the cut off date appears to be in 2016. Yes, that also removes most of the long term relevant contents of the plugin SDK forum and a large share of scripts and scripting related knowledge from their forum.

     

    As of the conversion today, all old InDesign forums combined report a total of 20,000 threads (not messages), with a majority from the user/general forum.

     

    For comparison, even with its small audience, the InDesign SDK forum alone has lost about 15,000 messages (not threads) from the years 2003 thru 2007 (Scripting was about 32,000), including valuable contributions from the original engineers. In the early Jive years 2008 thru 2014 I count about 9,000 messages for SDK (already on the decline) and 54,000 messages in the scripting forum. Shall we consider those gone?

     

    Unfortunately I can't provide the lower numbers of the more recent years because around that time I had given up fighting that Jive notoriously dropped my email subscriptions every few weeks. But you get the idea.

    Community Expert
    September 12, 2019

    I just started checking out new forum and have a few questions...

    - Is there any way to customize interface. For example, in the conversation list, I would only like to see the subject line, is this possible to customize as a user preference?

    - Is there an indicator for new responses?

    - Is there a guide available that summarizes new features?

    Om Nath Jha
    Legend
    September 18, 2019
    Hi, Here's a quick summary created by Pete for the Digital Imaging Community which you can check, it's almost the same for InDesign as well: https://community.adobe.com/t5/Photoshop/No-place-like-home-Check-out-the-New-Adobe-Digital-Imaging-Forum/td-p/10602224
    Known Participant
    September 12, 2019

    Hi,

     

    I posted a thread, but I don't see it listed. Do I need some kind of moderator approval?

    Legend
    September 12, 2019

    For those of us following the forum by email it would be helpful if the community name "InDesign" and the chosen sub-categories would make it into the email subject (or even better the sender), so we can apply email filter rules to pre-sort and archive. Keeping it short helps with reading the real subject. A typical tag would be "[InDesign SDK]". Furthermore it would be very helpful if we could specify an alternative email address, instead of just flooding the AdobeID address.

    Scott Citron
    Legend
    September 12, 2019
    I agree with Dirk. If you subscribe to more than one forum, it's impossible to know which forum sent the email you're reading. There MUST be a way to solve this simple problem, no?