Forum Suggestion . . .

John, thanks for the website, I will try it as soon I finished this "Thank You" note - I am grateful for the help I have received.
Yours R.P.Held

> > Claudio thanks for the quick reply, BOOKMARK and SUBSCRIBE are there, not the ADD TOPIC.

Are you on the correct page?

Try: http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx?14@@.ee6b30e

You need to be on the Home page of the forum to add a new topic.

Iechyd da! John
14:11 01/08/2005 BST

Ozpeter thanks, this might be the case i.e. somehow my side is corrupted, hasn't been used for quite a while (little quintuple bypass in March...) I wonder how does one ascertain and then repair it. This Forum is absolutely fantastic in its reach thanks to all the helpful knolwedgeable users. Yours R.P.Held

Claudio thanks for the quick reply, BOOKMARK and SUBSCRIBE are there, not the ADD TOPIC. R.P.Held

If you don't find them as described, let us know and we may be able to determine whether your user status is in some way corrupted.

There are three buttons just before the list of topics in any forum:

>Bookmark | Add Topic | Subscribe

This is really not a reply to the topic above but a sort of S.O.S.: I haven't used User to User Forum for some time and now I cannot locate the "Add Topic" venue, even though the instruction is to click on "Back to Topic list" and there would be the "Add Topic".

Yet there is no such phrase as "Add Topic". Unless I am totally visually impaired, I saw no "Add Topic".

Would be very gateful for some guidance R.P.Held

Theresa, I can understand why you might want this but as you can see from the comments above there are a number of impractical reasons why it would not work, in particular, Neil's comment that there is no consistent and predictable way that people would word their post titles.

Did you know that you can do targeted searches in the Adobe forums with keywords? This might do the trick for you.

Alphabetical sorts are useless as there is no consistency in how topics are worded. As just one example, an inordinate number of totally unrelated topics begin with the useless word "Help!" (One may safely assume that someone posts a topic question because he or she is indeed in need of some kind of assistance.) Other common leading words include "How do you..." or "OT", etc.

As pointed out, you can sort the topics by last time a topic is updated or by latest new posted topic, depending upon how you've set your forum preferences.

Neil

Theresa,

>Could they be sortable by date or alphabetical order?

The threads are strictly sorted, by date and time (PST) of latest post. This makes it very easy to follow threads and see what is new. This is the way.

Just imagine alphabetical order in a forum with some 1200 live threads: how often should you look for anything not beginning with A? The poor sods with questions beginning with W or worse would have to add an A first; and where would that leave us?

Edit: I realize that you mean sortable by the user, of course. But I believe it is much easier to use the Forum search.