UiPath Forum feedback round! 💬

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@jvanmarion

Forumposts: members only tag
On other forums there are ways to hide your post-content for the search engines. It won’t hide the text from the forum itself, but only forummembers can see it.
They can be used like [members] [/members] tags
Some things you can share on a public forum, but is not needed for search-engines to gather that information.

I don’t like this suggestion at all.

A lot of people, me included find the right forums post via search engines like google. It’s way easier to search for a problem on google since you might find your answer on this forum, stackoverflow or somewhere else. With your suggestion it would be harder to find this forum.

I’m not sure if you should be sharing things on a public forum that you don’t want search engines to find.

[jvanmarion (Jeroen van Marion)]

You would be surprised what people post on forums about customer info or user credentials.

I didn’t mean to completely hide the post, but only parts of it (images only). (only visable if you are a registered user on the uipath forum). This way the search engines can still index the text in the post, but not the image. Maybe that explains it better.

The other method would be what jeevith said. To warn people when they upload an image (is the content secure or not). I think that would be the best method. Everyone is still responsible for what they post online.

[Hiba_B (Hiba Beldi)]

Hi @loginerror !

Thank you for this opportunity

→ I would say, an interesting feature would be to dismiss the resolved or closed topics in the “New” page:

There is the button dismiss New, but not dismiss closed/resolved topics.

→ Also, it would be interesting to have another column in the “New” page, to know if the member that posted the topic is a new one in the forum or not.

→ Also by default, when answering to a new member, having a common starting sentence like "Welcome to UiPath Community ! " then we write what we want.

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→ For the community ideas, it would be great to have an annual event for community members. It would be several challenges that show creativity or speed. It would be accessible for all levels and seniority, something like the UiPath Olympics. We would have different games around UiPath ecosystem, and the quicker player or the one that would have more interaction would win.
Example:

Speed section

• maze
• 7 differences
• crossword
• pairs game
• hangman
• other games that I don’t know about, played around the world

Creativity around UiPath ecosystem “UiPath community has talents !”:

• photograph (find my robot, or guess in which country my bot is, …) or with a thema (ex: sport & UiPath, nature & UiPath, etc)
• other (painting, sculpture, song, tiktok, …)

Other idea

• what about creating a game ? Like mastermind but with UiPath mascot

[avejr748 (Ave Salvante Jr)]

Aside from that, I believe the post author should not be able to mark his own replies as a “solution”.

[loginerror (Maciej Kuźmicz)]

Hi everyone,

Thank you so much for providing your feedback. Please keep it coming, we’re always hungry for more

We wanted to address a few points. To make it more orderly, let’s start with the topic of solutions to the topics (one of the two most apparent themes from this thread).

We have noticed that many of the requested functionalities are already available. We decided to create some training videos to help our users out in properly utilizing all the tools that our Forum has to offer.

Solutions

To start, we have created a quick video tutorial on how to mark a topic with a solution, it is now part of our Forum FAQs:

Forum FAQ - How to mark a post as a solution

Forum FAQ - How to mark a post as a solution This document is part of our beginners guide. This article will teach you how to properly mark a post as a solution. We were closely following our last UiPath Forum feedback round! topic and carefully extracted all the bits of feedback that was provided. As such, we would like to tackle the topic of solutions on our Forum and how to properly use them. When is the topic resolved? The topic can be considered resolved when the topic author has fo…

There were several remarks about making sure that our users mark the topics as solutions and we hope that this topic answers most of them.

Flagging system

We have also created a quick video tutorial on how to flag problematic content via our Forum flagging system. It is now also part of our Forum FAQs:

Forum FAQ - How to flag posts

Forum FAQ - How to flag posts This document is part of our beginners guide. This article will teach you how to properly report posts using our flagging system. We were closely following our last UiPath Forum feedback round! topic and carefully extracted all the bits of feedback that was provided. As such, we would like to tackle the topic of flagging problematic posts on our Forum and how to properly use the flagging system. How to use the flagging system? Please have a lo…

The flagging system and its “Something Else” flag option should be to go-to way of notifying Forum Staff about the potential solutions to topics that are not closed and clearly contain a solution in one of the posts.

[loginerror (Maciej Kuźmicz)]

Some answers

@jvanmarion

Forumposts: date(year) missing.
I sometimes scroll through older posts. I can see the month-day of a post or response, but not the year.

If the year is missing, it means that it is the current year. The year gets added for posts from previous years

@jvanmarion

Report function: notifying forum moderator
I have never used the “flag / report” function, so maybe that’s where it’s already for.

The flagging system is indeed the way to go here.

@jvanmarion

Moderator board
Im not a moderator but is there a board to discuss things between moderators?

There is a @Forum_Moderators_2024 group. We are planning to extend it with new moderators. This will be most likely based on the monthly Forum rewards winners who had additionally shown moderator-like activity (i.e. flagging topics, renaming unclear topics titles, moving topics to proper categories).

@Stalin_R

Why do we keep “New Topic” button only on dashboard. If I am referring some topics which has been posted by someone. but I am not getting the answer.

There is a share button on each post. When you click it, it will automatically open a composer for you with a pre-filled reference to the particular post

@Hiba_B

I would say, an interesting feature would be to dismiss the resolved or closed topics in the “New” page:

There is a partial workaround to access only new topics without an answer with some URL magic See below:
https://forum.uipath.com/new?solved=no

This will most likely still cause the Dismiss New button to dismiss all topics rather than just the ones displayed, but should help out when looking for new topics.

We can also create a custom view as part of the Forum reports if you’d like.

@Hiba_B

Also, it would be interesting to have another column in the “New” page, to know if the member that posted the topic is a new one in the forum or not.

This is certainly something that we feel more confident having as part of the Forum reports. Check them out

@Hiba_B

For the community ideas, it would be great to have an annual event for community members.

This sounds awesome. I would say that a lot of it could be prepared by our Community themselves. We have the Off-Topic Discussions category where you could create all kinds of topics and engage other users with fun ideas!

[ppr (Peter Preuss)]

• lets think about community driven tags
• we do have a potential to react faster if requester prepares for us part artifacts (e.g. XAML with build datatable and prefilled sample data) - maybe we can add this to the forum FAQ
• lets think about some quick checks and fast feedback buttons:
  • share sample data, share selector, share version, share requirement details…
• having a flag for indicating that the case in incomplete described
  • we do see requests like: “need help, my Bot is not working…”. But request is not adressable without the details to it