More changes on Forum

February 14, 2006
From: Bill Rudman

You may have noticed a few new features appearing on the Forum recently. They are all aimed at making things easier for both you and I.

Participant's List:
This was upgraded a while ago. There is now a form which allows you to directly enter your details - or alter them, when circumstances change.

Sending Messages:
I have added a page of background information on sending messages. Please read it. It will give you some ideas on how to improve your messages's chances by making its editing easier. When you send a message to the Forum you now get an automatic copy sent to your email address. This gives you a copy for your records, and is also a way of alerting you to any message which may be falsely sent to us, in your name. This copy contains the identification number of your message which you can use to query any problem in the future.

Publishing messages:
Because there is sometimes a delay in posting messages, an email is now automatically sent to you when your message is published, or about to be published.

Searches:
If you go to the navigation bar at top left of each page you will see there are two new search facilities available on the Forum 

  • Taxonomic Search: This can be used to find taxonomic Fact Sheets, both at the species level and higher levels.
  • Citation Search: Messages and Fact Sheets on the Forum are regularly being cited in the printed scientific literature. This search facility allows you to simply type in the message number or the unique 'base' name of a Fact Sheet and go to the relevant page. It means you don't have to type the whole citation into your web browser.

These are specialist searches and don't replace the general Forum Search which I would still recommend for most purposes:

Thanks:
There are also quite a few major 'behind the scenes' changes which will hopefully make my job easier and allow your contributions to appear with less delay. None of this would have been possible without the work of Peter Firminger who has stuck with the Forum since a fateful day 9 years ago when I asked him for some help in setting up a Forum on sea slugs 'for perhaps 3 or 4 messages a week'. Thanks Peter.

Please let me know if you find something acting strangely. I think I have checked everything but.....

Bill Rudman

Rudman, W.B., 2006 (Feb 14) More changes on Forum. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/15854

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