FTM Warts: Support Message Boards

Problems with the Family Tree Maker Support Message Boards, now handled by GenForum.

Index	Home
Mind-it	Top

The less than "<" and greater than ">" characters are not permitted in posted messages. The posting mechanism deletes them – and everything between them – when it should simply change them to the strings, "<" and "> which would display the proper characters.

The recent move to GenForum has not changed this. A problem has been written to GenForum. The solution requires a simple change in their script.

The Online Message Board Search mechanism nightly maintenance often gets "stuck" so that it locks out the users well into the daytime: If all the message boards have been moved over to GenForum, why is the nightly maintenance still needed?

still needed?

~~Posting a follow-up to a message uses a dialog with the title from the referenced message filled into the Title space. This title will be truncated at the first double quote, however.~~

The dialog for posting a message has spaces for the user's name and email address. Data entered there is retained (via a cookie?) and automatically filled in on subsequent postings. There doesn't seem to be any way to change the saved content, however. If your email address changes, you must thereafter overtype the old address with your new one on every posting.

21FEB1999

3004

Please
visit my home page!

24MAY1999

"Family Tree Maker" is a trademark of Brøderbund^® Software, Inc.
Neither this site nor its author have any connection with The Family Tree Maker program or its owner. Advice and suggestions offered here are to be used at your own risk. Your mileage may vary. Batteries not included.

[TOP]

Email:dav4is@yahoo.com

Snail:
Roderic A. Davis, 2^nd
P.O. Box 118
Hyde Park, NY 12538
USA