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The Alpha Software Forum Participation Guidelines

The Alpha Software Forum is a free forum created for Alpha Software Developer Community to ask for help, exchange ideas, and share solutions. Alpha Software strives to create an environment where all members of the community can feel safe to participate. In order to ensure the Alpha Software Forum is a place where all feel welcome, forum participants are expected to behave as follows:
  • Be professional in your conduct
  • Be kind to others
  • Be constructive when giving feedback
  • Be open to new ideas and suggestions
  • Stay on topic


Be sure all comments and threads you post are respectful. Posts that contain any of the following content will be considered a violation of your agreement as a member of the Alpha Software Forum Community and will be moderated:
  • Spam.
  • Vulgar language.
  • Quotes from private conversations without permission, including pricing and other sales related discussions.
  • Personal attacks, insults, or subtle put-downs.
  • Harassment, bullying, threatening, mocking, shaming, or deriding anyone.
  • Sexist, racist, homophobic, transphobic, ableist, or otherwise discriminatory jokes and language.
  • Sexually explicit or violent material, links, or language.
  • Pirated, hacked, or copyright-infringing material.
  • Encouraging of others to engage in the above behaviors.


If a thread or post is found to contain any of the content outlined above, a moderator may choose to take one of the following actions:
  • Remove the Post or Thread - the content is removed from the forum.
  • Place the User in Moderation - all posts and new threads must be approved by a moderator before they are posted.
  • Temporarily Ban the User - user is banned from forum for a period of time.
  • Permanently Ban the User - user is permanently banned from the forum.


Moderators may also rename posts and threads if they are too generic or do not property reflect the content.

Moderators may move threads if they have been posted in the incorrect forum.

Threads/Posts questioning specific moderator decisions or actions (such as "why was a user banned?") are not allowed and will be removed.

The owners of Alpha Software Corporation (Forum Owner) reserve the right to remove, edit, move, or close any thread for any reason; or ban any forum member without notice, reason, or explanation.

Community members are encouraged to click the "Report Post" icon in the lower left of a given post if they feel the post is in violation of the rules. This will alert the Moderators to take a look.

Alpha Software Corporation may amend the guidelines from time to time and may also vary the procedures it sets out where appropriate in a particular case. Your agreement to comply with the guidelines will be deemed agreement to any changes to it.



Bonus TIPS for Successful Posting

Try a Search First
It is highly recommended that a Search be done on your topic before posting, as many questions have been answered in prior posts. As with any search engine, the shorter the search term, the more "hits" will be returned, but the more specific the search term is, the greater the relevance of those "hits". Searching for "table" might well return every message on the board while "tablesum" would greatly restrict the number of messages returned.

When you do post
First, make sure you are posting your question in the correct forum. For example, if you post an issue regarding Desktop applications on the Mobile & Browser Applications board , not only will your question not be seen by the appropriate audience, it may also be removed or relocated.

The more detail you provide about your problem or question, the more likely someone is to understand your request and be able to help. A sample database with a minimum of records (and its support files, zipped together) will make it much easier to diagnose issues with your application. Screen shots of error messages are especially helpful.

When explaining how to reproduce your problem, please be as detailed as possible. Describe every step, click-by-click and keypress-by-keypress. Otherwise when others try to duplicate your problem, they may do something slightly different and end up with different results.

A note about attachments
You may only attach one file to each message. Attachment file size is limited to 2MB. If you need to include several files, you may do so by zipping them into a single archive.

If you forgot to attach your files to your post, please do NOT create a new thread. Instead, reply to your original message and attach the file there.

When attaching screen shots, it is best to attach an image file (.BMP, .JPG, .GIF, .PNG, etc.) or a zip file of several images, as opposed to a Word document containing the screen shots. Because Word documents are prone to viruses, many message board users will not open your Word file, therefore limiting their ability to help you.

Similarly, if you are uploading a zipped archive, you should simply create a .ZIP file and not a self-extracting .EXE as many users will not run your EXE file.
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    #16
    I think I am getting the hang of it.

    Looks very much like the UK users message board, but enhanced. I like it.

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      #17
      New Message Board - Ab Fab!

      Looks and works brilliantly and when I get used to the functionality I'm sure it will prove an extremely worthwhile tool in my Alpha Learning experience. Particularly liked the facility of web help and tutorials etc being attached to the forum. Keep up the good work.

      Regards Robert

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        #18
        Wow even more impressed with this subscription thinggy, and getting threads with contents posted to my e-mail. Can see I won't get much work done reading all the mail. (yes i know i can turn it off)

        Please update other forums ASAP

        Lance

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          #19
          Forum enhancements

          Yeah,

          that's what I noticed, too. All documentation on hand. Great!
          Last edited by Ren� Stout; 09-22-2005, 08:13 AM.
          Ren�
          Windows 7, V11

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            #20
            Originally posted by Kevin G. Timberlake
            Will we be able to use avitars? I noticed the option to change is disabled. Just curious..
            You should be able to change your avatar under User CP (top menu)->Edit Avatar (on the left).
            Aaron Brown
            Alpha Software Development Team

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              #21
              It seems blocked. The only visible option is Not to use the avatar, even when I select Show avatars in the Options menu. Or do I miss something?

              Ren�
              Ren�
              Windows 7, V11

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                #22
                I'm hoping that we still have the ability to include ZIP files along with our posts. It's quite helpful to have this available to users. e.g. Sample code, finding problems in code, etc.

                --Bob

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                  #23
                  Ok, I have fixed this now.

                  Originally posted by Ren� Stout
                  It seems blocked. The only visible option is Not to use the avatar, even when I select Show avatars in the Options menu. Or do I miss something?

                  Ren�
                  Aaron Brown
                  Alpha Software Development Team

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                    #24
                    You do. If you run into problems, let me know, but attachments are supported. Additionally, you can link directly to images on the web and small images are displayed inline rather than as attachments.

                    Originally posted by Bob Houle
                    I'm hoping that we still have the ability to include ZIP files along with our posts. It's quite helpful to have this available to users. e.g. Sample code, finding problems in code, etc.

                    --Bob
                    Aaron Brown
                    Alpha Software Development Team

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                      #25
                      New Messageboard

                      I think it looks great! It will take a little getting used to, but I think it will be an improvement over the old one.
                      Dave Jampole
                      www.customalpha.com

                      Women and cats will do whatever they want. The sooner men and dogs realize that, the happier they will be.

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                        #26
                        Still Learning

                        Still working my way through this. I can see where it is going to be nice.

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                          #27
                          New Board

                          I like it...

                          Bill Belanger

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                            #28
                            Old stuff

                            How do we get to the old message boards?

                            Bill Belanger

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                              #29
                              Most of the forums on this new message board are actually links to the old board. The only truly new forums here are V7 Beta, Announcements, and Support. If you click on Alpha Five Version 6, for example, you are brought to the old board.

                              Originally posted by [email protected]
                              How do we get to the old message boards?

                              Bill Belanger
                              Aaron Brown
                              Alpha Software Development Team

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                                #30
                                Still learning, Aaron you responded to Bills message but I received an email stating that someone had responded to my message. Is everyone on this thread receiveing emails that someone had responded to a message?

                                Phil Rolf

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