topic Migration from Esri Forums to Geonet in 3D Questions

Migration from Esri Forums to Geonet

NicolaiSteinø — Tue, 08 Jul 2014 08:53:52 GMT

Hi,

having used the Esri Forums on CityEngine extensively, I am rather confused about where the content of the different CityEngine sub-forums have gone after the migration to Geonet.

Would you kindly provide some sort of guide or overview as to how to find this content in the new structure, as well as to how/where to put new questions?

Still confused about the logic of Geonet, my best bet is that everything is now in the GIS > 3D space (if this is a space at all). But the the old structure provided a more fine-masked sorting, such as First Steps, Shape Grammars, Python, etc. Have these distinctions been maintained, and how?

Regards,

Nic

Re: Migration from Esri Forums to Geonet

DuncanHornby — Tue, 08 Jul 2014 10:52:50 GMT

I'm stumbling around GeoNet, not sure what I am looking at. Can't seem to find where one would post a desktop developer question. Of cause the irony in your question is would we find the guide if someone posted it?

Re: Migration from Esri Forums to Geonet

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Tue, 08 Jul 2014 13:38:04 GMT

Nic,

Creating discussions is explained here: https://community.esri.com/docs/DOC-1087

As far as it has been explained to us MVPs the old forum threads have been tagged appropriately and moved to the new generalized structure. So if you go to your old City Engine forum bookmark you should be redirected to the new GeoNet space that those forum posts have been moved to. You can filter spaces for your area of interest or you can create a stream that will allow you to follow only the people or tags, etc that you are interested in. See this post: Read More

Robert

Re: Migration from Esri Forums to Geonet

V_StuartFoote — Tue, 08 Jul 2014 14:00:41 GMT

Nic,

In the migration, CityEngine content was dumped into the GIS -> 3D Place.

Within the 3D Place, on the Content tab - use the filter by tag of: cityengine

That will filter down to all the old CityEngine Content-- from there it is search by text or you can click the browse more tags to filter down further.

Re: Migration from Esri Forums to Geonet

AleksandarLalovic — Wed, 09 Jul 2014 08:29:35 GMT

Does this actually means that if you don't tag your posts appropriately they will end up god knows where and no one will see it. Up untill now everything was quite compact and in one place, why jamming everything together, I really don't see the point of this?

Re: Migration from Esri Forums to Geonet

DanPatterson_Retired — Wed, 09 Jul 2014 08:34:04 GMT

tagging is important...not only for you but for the community in general. A well tagged thread will help stop the proliferation of redundant/already-asked threads on the site

Re: Migration from Esri Forums to Geonet

SukhRehal — Wed, 09 Jul 2014 08:35:27 GMT

I'm not sure if I should be writing this here, but I'm also having problems with this update.

How do I go about finding all posts started by me?

Thanks

Re: Migration from Esri Forums to Geonet

DanPatterson_Retired — Wed, 09 Jul 2014 08:54:43 GMT

Until the migration of the former forums, you may not be able to...this issue was raised at an online MVP meeting yesterday....patience perhaps

Re: Migration from Esri Forums to Geonet

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Wed, 09 Jul 2014 11:56:57 GMT

Sukhvir,

As Dan mentioned you may not find them all right now but all you have to do is go to the content menu on the main top banner and then click authored on the left menu.

Robert

Re: Migration from Esri Forums to Geonet

MatthiasBuehler1 — Wed, 09 Jul 2014 14:16:45 GMT

Hi, due to living in a different time zone, I am not able to attend such meetings.

But the missing categories make it impossible to do efficient and structured work here. I don't have time to filter through thousands of threads that may be related to '3d'.

The usability so far is a huge step back. Everybody everywhere used Forums. Why reinvent the wheel ?

Re: Migration from Esri Forums to Geonet

LaurenYee — Wed, 09 Jul 2014 14:28:15 GMT

I agree wholeheartedly. I don't like this new design either, very unfocused.

Re: Migration from Esri Forums to Geonet

V_StuartFoote — Wed, 09 Jul 2014 14:41:44 GMT

Mathias,

All CityEngine content should receive the cityengine tag and end up in the 3D Space. As long as folks use that tag you're golden.

You've actually got it easy

Stuart

Re: Migration from Esri Forums to Geonet

AleksandarLalovic — Wed, 09 Jul 2014 14:45:52 GMT

I totally agree, not to mention that sorting the content just by tags created by so many different people can be a total mess.

To give you and example, this morning I had problems filtering CityEngine content since there is "cityengine" and "city engine" tags, and if the tags get case sensitive which might as well be the case then the whole confusion gets to the next level.

Re: Migration from Esri Forums to Geonet

V_StuartFoote — Wed, 09 Jul 2014 16:11:17 GMT

Nick, *,

And so it is handy, here is the schema used in migrating the existing CityEngine threads into the 3D Space, and also the tag's each subject received.

CityEngine - CGA Shape Grammar	3D	CityEngine, CGA Shape Grammar
CityEngine - General Discussion	3D	CityEngine
CityEngine - GeoDesign Workflows	3D	CityEngine, GeoDesign
CityEngine - Import/Export	3D	CityEngine, Import/Export
CityEngine - Installation and First Steps	3D	CityEngine, Install, Configure
CityEngine - Python Scripting	3D	Python
CityEngine R&D	3D	CityEngine, 3D
CityEngine SDK	3D	CityEngine, SDK
CityEngine WebViewer	3D	CityEngine, WebViewer

Keeping those combinations of tags handy should help keep things focused. What comes later will be the ability for moderators and MVP to adjust the tags.

Stuart

Re: Migration from Esri Forums to Geonet

LaurenYee — Wed, 09 Jul 2014 16:46:33 GMT

Just seems like a lot more work for the moderator to keep up with. As well allows the user to input incorrect tags.

Re: Migration from Esri Forums to Geonet

V_StuartFoote — Wed, 09 Jul 2014 17:26:03 GMT

Lauren,

Yes, it will. However the Stack Exchange model of tightly moderated tag approval can also be cumbersome and frustrating to users trying to submit their questions.

The Jive (v7) host that Esri chose to use has a VERY liberal tag creation and management--it just swallows it all and indexes the tags.The more popular tags in each "place" are listed first. Over time the tag use stabilizes. You can see that manifested by using the "browse by tags" during query or when submitting to discussions.

Personally though, I'd like to see some aspect of tag generation tightened up now at launch, rather than having to clean things up going forward.

Stuart

Re: Migration from Esri Forums to Geonet

FrankGarofalo — Thu, 10 Jul 2014 07:34:28 GMT

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Re: Migration from Esri Forums to Geonet

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Re: Migration from Esri Forums to Geonet

SukhRehal — Fri, 11 Jul 2014 11:32:32 GMT

Thanks guys,

appreciate your help!