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Post by sportsman 1 on Jun 21, 2007 12:57:58 GMT 10
Hello, Am I being really silly  (shut up Reddo) or do we not have the facility in the profile area for listing what V V's we own. I feel it would be of great assistance, especially for new folks, to be able to look up who owns what so we know who has a van or TD which is similar to our own.  Any constructive or other thoughts on if this is feasible or desirable. Happy V Ving to you all, Leigh. |
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Post by cobber on Jun 21, 2007 13:45:42 GMT 10
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Post by Deleted on Jun 21, 2007 14:59:03 GMT 10
sILly si gOod  Reddo |
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Post by firefighter on Jun 21, 2007 15:37:06 GMT 10
 Hey Leigh have experimented with my profile now have what van I own next to firefighter , only trouble it shows up on the bottom of the front page when you login on & in your postings might leave it on for a while then take it off F/F ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Post by skyline59 on Jun 21, 2007 15:57:55 GMT 10
G'dday Leigh, i think that is a good idea if it is able to be done. Having a registrar of all the different types of vintage caravans & teardrops that are around in the group ( i hope i used the correct wording there ),is agood thing. As an early 40's male, i reckon it would be like a history lesson about the different types of caravans that are still around & the progression of all vans over the years till now. p.s. hope everything is going to plan for your trip Darwin !
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Post by sportsman 1 on Jun 21, 2007 16:21:04 GMT 10
Thanks for the feedback so far, Cobber, I went back to Belindas topic and that covers listing each post on the forum. I would prefer having the info on the members own profile so a search through the profile listing would give you an immediate list of people who own a particular brand or make, rather than a list of posts that have some reference to it as often the reference is very obscure. Not trying to change the face of the entire group here, just make finding information easier. I recently put up a request for information on Sportsmans and had 1 reply (thanks Kaybee) but have since found several references in other posts. Just as an example if the people who had Sportsmans had that fact listed on their profile I would then be able to PM them if desired for any reason. (parts for sale or wanted, getting to know folks, etc.) Perhaps it has something to do with privacy laws,  although if anyone did not wish to include this detail on their profile then they have the right not to. Perhaps our administrator extrordinaire and his faithful moderator can enlighten us further. Herewith endeth the episle. (I hope I got that right!) Good cheer to one and all, Leigh. |
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Post by cobber on Jun 21, 2007 17:37:25 GMT 10
Leigh, As me old mate Reddo has mentioned once or twice, I’m old, so if I’m missing the point be gentle with me..... OK?  The “Search” facility on this forum ain’t great. I don’t think it works at all regarding member’s profiles.. first point, if it does, just break it to me gently OK? If you want to find out who on the forum owns a “Don” caravan, for instance, and you go to the “members Photo Album” forum and click on the “search” button on the top line of that forum you get a box in which you type “Don” in the search field. Tick the box in the “subject” field and expand the number of results to, say 50, you will get results for those who have used the word Don in their topic name (including a bloke who once owned a purDON  If you do the same thing with “sportsman” you’ll find only two owners, because they are the only two who have used the word “sportsman” in their “topic” heading. Problem is.... everybody has to change their “subject” or “topic” heading to include the name of their van, some of us did, as a result of Belinda’s thread, but it would take constant policing by a highly paid, dedicated Administrator, with nothing better to do with their time, to make it work long term. Give it a go, and tell me if it comes close to what you are after. Cobber. |
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Post by sportsman 1 on Jun 21, 2007 18:20:12 GMT 10
Hi Cobber, Not quite what I want, this only gives you a reference to a post or thread with that name. What I am seeking is; If you go to the top of the main index page (and possibly others) you will find MEMBERS 4th from the left. If you click on that it takes you to the full list of members and details. This area you can view by letter, top posts, all members, etc. If the details of van/s owned was included in this area when joining or updated as vans are bought or sold, and you could view by make then it would be very easy (I think?) I am not a computer expert and I dont know what would need to be done to enable this feature but just thought it a good idea. Apart from the initial work to enable these details to be listed, there would be no work required by the administrator, it would be the responsibility of each individual to list what they own if they so wished. I note that many members have their details hidden as they have every right to! Hope this clarifies what I am wondering, I realise it will never be complete but if enough members want to list their vans it must be worthwhile? Over to youse guys and gals again, Leigh. By the way Cobber, how old is old? I turn 50 in November and I reccon I am not old. Ask my kids, or even the wife and they will tell you something different I'm sure. Age isn't important, its only how long you have been enjoying the journey that matters!!!!!!!! |
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Post by cobber on Jun 21, 2007 19:05:17 GMT 10
OK Leigh, What you want is something that's not there, I'm just trying to work with what we have got. Maybe admin or some computer nerd  can do what you're after. I don't reckon I'm old but that young whippersnapper Reddo (you can see both our ages in our profiles ) keeps trying to tell me I am. Cobber. |
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Post by chippydave01 on Jun 21, 2007 19:49:55 GMT 10
Okay guys heres a suggestion you can stick anything you own on your signature,but only if ya want.As for me Ive got to sell everything except for one car and one van because Ive got to much stuff and to many bills.Hoping to delete heaps of stuff of my signature so I can downsize and afford to pay for the good things in life like the 2007 east coast nsw tour and the trip to 2008 Mt Gambier.Cheers Dave.....oh and buy the way im still looking for a hk ht hg monaro shell
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Post by tinnie on Jun 22, 2007 20:46:24 GMT 10
I have another suggestion. I like firefighters until I realised that some of us have too many vans - I would end up Tinnie/Viscount/Franklin, or maybe Tinnie Viscount? Tinnie-Woodie Franklin ;D Anyway, (and I guess this is a question for our Mark T & Kris B also) what if we left a thread at the top of a section maybe in general. Each of us posts a couple of lines about the brand, size construction and age of our van/vans and the area we live in. As we each add to or remove vans from our collection we can modify our own post. Thus people can easily access who has similar vans to their own and even who has similar vans and lives close by?? Just a thought. (I don't have many so make the most of this one folks ;D) Gristy |
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Post by Don Ricardo on Jun 22, 2007 23:33:53 GMT 10
G'day everyone,
Just wanted to add something to the discussion about the 'search' function on the forum. Cobber mentioned the 'search' button at the top of each discussion board which allows you to search for a word or phrase in the particular discussion board (eg Members Photo Albums). However there is a more extensive 'search' function provided on the website menu bar at the top of the screen - just under the line that says "Hey, [your name], you have x messages...".
This search function allows you to search for a word or phrase in as many of the discussion boards as you wish at the one time, as well as specifying the number of posts you wish to see and the length of time in days you want the search to cover (eg 365 or 730 days or however many). I have used it a few times and found it useful (providing people spell words the same way I do ;D).
There are a couple of tricks to it though:
1. You can only use the search facility once without going back to the beginning. For example I might specify that I want to find references to 'Sportsman' in the last 100 days. If I don't find what I want, I can't just change to 200 days and then press 'search' at the bottom of the search window again. I have to go back to the website menu and press 'search' to start a new search. (Clear as mud??)
2. As with any search function you sometimes look for a sequence of letters which may be part of many words. For example if I search for 'Don' the search will turn up references to 'Don', 'don't', 'donna', etc. When you look at the posts that are listed you may wonder why on earth some posts are there. The answer is that the computer - being both clever and dumb at the same time - has faithfully done what you asked: found every word which includes the sequence of letters you asked for.
My next comment is perhaps a bit controversial but I am not trying to offend anyone: When we use the search function to look for a particular brand our efforts can sometimes be made a little difficult by the fact that a number of people have included their caravan brand name in their forum name. Thus, if we look for 'Sportsman' the search function will not only list every reference to Sportsman TD's but also every comment to Sportsman1, such as "Hi Sportsman, good to hear from you" or whatever. I am not having a go at Leigh or Franklin or anyone else when I say this - after all I did exactly the same thing by naming myself 'Don Ricardo', didn't I? I'm just pointing out something that affects the way the search function works.
Anyway, my point is that the search function on the website menu bar can be quite a powerful tool. It doesn't allow you to search member profiles, but even so when I did a search for 'Sportsman' it turned up a lot of references to people who own Sportsman TD's, not just 2.
Hope this is useful info.
Don Ricardo
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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2007 7:24:40 GMT 10
Hi Don You are right in what you say. I have used the "search" function the way you have described on many occassions to clarify something that was said or i have read in someone elses posts or maybe just searching for info about a breed of van.. Can be frustrating at times when you get a stack of posts that have parts of words that you have searched on.... but in the end i have found what i am looking for. Also helps to have a good memory recall on different topics. It can save a lot of time. I think it is all just a matter of patience when looking for info. Just like going to a library  I find photobucket the same. My album is up around 15 pages with an average of about 10 pictures per page. if i want to find a picture i filed back a few years ago you have to try and remember roughly what page or stage in vint van postings history and head back there searching... hmmm "was it before "Coledale 2005" or was it after" Morgan getogether 2006.??"... Same thing as searching for a topic or thread.. but worse because there is no search engine on photobucket. Word of warning: if you decide to delete photos from your photobucket album it will automatically delete the same photos out of your forum postings. thats why you occassionally see a box with a red cross in it where a photo should be. The author has had a clean up in photobucket and deleted the photo and hence the link to them from the forum, they are gone forever.. unless the author decides to reinstate them in his/her album and copy them back to thier orginal post as well. Again clear as mud for those that arent too familiar with photobucket... or crapbucket as many of us have called it before we mastered it. ;D Cheers mate Reddo |
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Post by sportsman 1 on Jun 23, 2007 8:29:07 GMT 10
Hi all, all good suggestions and most of which I have tried before with some success. Chippydave came up with a good idea, but I dont think you would find the imformation if you searched signatures. (havent tried that one.) What I was hoping was to find a brand name listing that just referred to members and nothing else, therefore cutting out all the other ?. Also all the other methods rely on someone posting something. I am sure there are members who have vans and have not posted anything. Their ownership details would probably be there anyway! Food for thought! bye bye for now, Leigh. |
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Post by Geoff & Jude on Jun 23, 2007 9:08:36 GMT 10
for your info
the search engine doesn't look for information that is in your signature or your personal text. Nor does it include your display name (or anything listed under "author") in the search.
it would seem that it only searches the post topic and actual content of the posts themselves.
if you want to search for a "specific" word, eg don, and don't want to have all the don't, done and similiar junk included in the search, this is what you do.
for example, to only get results of don in your search, in the search field, type in (space)don(space), and in the drop down menu, select 'match whole phrase', then press search.
this excludes all the junk. (it won't find "don" though, because it's in inverted commas - it won't find don either, because it has the bold symbols either side of the word, don - this also applies to colours, italics etc.).
it is a bit inconsistent though - sometimes it finds the info and other times it tells you it has found no results.
a good comparison is if you search red both ways. the selective search will give two results (colour red) used over the past 7 days and the open search will give many more results (any word including red in it's spelling).
geoff 'n jude
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Post by Don Ricardo on Jun 23, 2007 12:01:30 GMT 10
Thanks for adding the extra info and search tips Geoff 'n Jude. All adds to the collective knowledge base. As Reddo says, doing a search is a bit like going to the library. Sometimes your search gives you the info you're looking for first go, other times you have to spend some time look through quite a number of posts before you find it. (And sometimes you begin to wonder whether you imagined the info was ever there in the first place... ) Don Ricardo |
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Post by cornishlass on Jun 24, 2007 6:32:57 GMT 10
Hi Just thought that I would add my two-penny worth to the discussion if that's ok I am a member of the Historic Caravan Club in the UK and they actually produce a list of all their members vans in written form. Now I am not suggesting that anybody should have to sit and plough through all the past info trying to produce such a list, but, there was a suggestion made in a previous posting that each individual could list their own To me that seems to be the best idea. Would it be possible set up a new section that comes up in the topics menu? Then it would be accessible to all, and if information was required for referencing etc., at least the vans would be listed in one place. The HCC register is listed by make alphabetically - could a programme be written which enables new entries to be sorted and listed automatically? The HCC headings across the page are Build Year, Make, Model, Length, Berths, and Members name. I give this as an example, but it does make finding information quite easy - and just think, it could be the start of of the 'library of information' ;D ;D Just a thought Cornish Lass |
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(shut up Reddo) or do we not have the facility in the profile area for listing what V V's we own.
although if anyone did not wish to include this detail on their profile then they have the right not to. Perhaps our administrator extrordinaire and his faithful moderator can enlighten us further.
can do what you're after.
