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Please share your feedback and questions about the Commvault Community

  • 20 January 2021
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We want to make this community the BEST it can be for you and all of our Commvault customers.

Please share your thoughts and feedback on the initial experience here in the community, it will help us improve it for everyone.  Anything you’d like to share about the platform, the content, the ease of use, etc. would be greatly appreciated!

 


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This platform looks good, but is there going to be a way to archive the old forums so they are searchable? There is a wealth of knowledge there.

Hey Michael,

The old platform makes this very difficult to do and we didn't want to delay launching the new community while we figured it out. There was also a lot of outdated content, and without proper classification (like we have tags here), we didn't want to bring in the good with the bad. Instead, we looked at the most popular topics and added them here in the run-up to launch. We think we captured a lot of the most pertinent topics, but anything missing should be regenerated here pretty quickly given the easier and faster experience. Appreciate the feedback, it's still something we will evaluate as a few folks enjoyed the content on the old forums.

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Good news to everyone asking, we are planning to archive the old forums and leave them up for reading.  Once that is ready, we’ll make a nice sticky post so everyone can easily find the old stuff.

@Anthony.Hodges @Michael Woodward @Bart 

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Is it possible to add tags like “SAP for Oracle” (which isn’t using the normal oracle rman interface, but brtools).

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@dorothyt I just thought of a possible capability to the forum. A lot of times, we have people posting and not necessarily marking coming back and marking the thread as answered. What do you think of a “propose as answer” button next to the Quote option where other participants by reading the posts can select and if (i dont know) 2 or 3 people click that option the post is automatically marked as answered. 

Say a user created a topic, never come back or didnt mark the post as answered after 30 days, that post would automatically be marked as responded based on that option. Just a thought.

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I’m excited and hope this takes off.  The old forums always seemed a little stale to me and I didn’t often find what I was looking for.

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I’m excited and hope this takes off.  The old forums always seemed a little stale to me and I didn’t often find what I was looking for.

Glad to have you around, @Ryan Sinnwell !  I’m pretty darn blown away by how it’s taken off already.  Especially from many of the people posting on this exact thread.  @dude and @Anthony.Hodges alone have been a HUGE part of the new community, not to mention so many more!

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What’s the difference between this, and the other support forum?

Hey Bart,

The old forums will be retired …. any minute now ;)

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This platform it seems more powerful and easily to use than the old one, you guys rocked in that, :wink:

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The new community site looks great, looking forward to seeing more content!

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Right off the bat I see a lot of the CV staff (I assume) participating here. I take this as a positive move as the old forum seemed a little abandoned even by the CV employees. 

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This platform looks good, but is there going to be a way to archive the old forums so they are searchable? There is a wealth of knowledge there.

Hey Michael,

The old platform makes this very difficult to do and we didn't want to delay launching the new community while we figured it out. There was also a lot of outdated content, and without proper classification (like we have tags here), we didn't want to bring in the good with the bad. Instead, we looked at the most popular topics and added them here in the run-up to launch. We think we captured a lot of the most pertinent topics, but anything missing should be regenerated here pretty quickly given the easier and faster experience. Appreciate the feedback, it's still something we will evaluate as a few folks enjoyed the content on the old forums.


To be honest, it shows a lot nerve to completely wipe the efforts of those made an effort to help to the that community for years. :rage::rage::rage:

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This platform looks good, but is there going to be a way to archive the old forums so they are searchable? There is a wealth of knowledge there.

Hey Michael,

The old platform makes this very difficult to do and we didn't want to delay launching the new community while we figured it out. There was also a lot of outdated content, and without proper classification (like we have tags here), we didn't want to bring in the good with the bad. Instead, we looked at the most popular topics and added them here in the run-up to launch. We think we captured a lot of the most pertinent topics, but anything missing should be regenerated here pretty quickly given the easier and faster experience. Appreciate the feedback, it's still something we will evaluate as a few folks enjoyed the content on the old forums.


To be honest, it shows a lot nerve to completely wipe the efforts of those made an effort to help to the that community for years. :rage::rage::rage:

Totally understand, so we are going to leave them around in an archived state.  Once this is done, I’ll get a post up.  Appreciate you and everyone else letting us know how valuable you find the content.  Wouldn’t want to deprive you guys of something you love!

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This platform looks good, but is there going to be a way to archive the old forums so they are searchable? There is a wealth of knowledge there.

Hey Michael,

The old platform makes this very difficult to do and we didn't want to delay launching the new community while we figured it out. There was also a lot of outdated content, and without proper classification (like we have tags here), we didn't want to bring in the good with the bad. Instead, we looked at the most popular topics and added them here in the run-up to launch. We think we captured a lot of the most pertinent topics, but anything missing should be regenerated here pretty quickly given the easier and faster experience. Appreciate the feedback, it's still something we will evaluate as a few folks enjoyed the content on the old forums.


To be honest, it shows a lot nerve to completely wipe the efforts of those made an effort to help to the that community for years. :rage::rage::rage:

Totally understand, so we are going to leave them around in an archived state.  Once this is done, I’ll get a post up.  Appreciate you and everyone else letting us know how valuable you find the content.  Wouldn’t want to deprive you guys of something you love!

 

@Mike Struening  Yeah, it would be nice if it was publicly archived because it was used as was also linked in the Maintenance Advantage search.

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Is it possible to add tags like “SAP for Oracle” (which isn’t using the normal oracle rman interface, but brtools).

Consider it done!

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Hey @dude !  So I have been going through threads that seem to have been either answered, or solidly-advised-and-likely-answered and marking them as answered.  the challenge to any approach is how much time we give.  the good news is that the platform allows us to change the ‘Best Answer’ so there’s not much harm in having to change it.

I think your idea has merit, so I’ll see what options we have (or if I have to suggest it to the vendor).

As always, thanks man!

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Hi,

How can I change my e-mail address? In the old forum, I had my own e-mail address. In this forum, I automatically seem to have a group e-mail address from my company, to which I have no access.

It should be logging you in via your maintenance advantage account. When you registered on the forums, which account were you logged in under?  Try logging back in under your personal address, assuming you have a maintenance advantage sub account. 

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This feels more modern then the old forum, and more easy to do posts. They do/did contain lots of information but wasn’t so lively.

The new Communitity is far better and already there are alot of interaction between peers (are thy called peers?!?). I think it’s more appealing to newcomers as well as oldies (like myself).

 

So from me all positive, keep the good work coming.

//Henke

 

“How long a minute is, depends on what side of the bathroomdoor you are on”

 

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@Onno van den Berg , we do have plans to create an Ideas section (it’s a feature here, we just have not launched it yet) once we can ensure the line between request and products team is there.  Definitely working on it!

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@Onno van den Berg , we do have plans to create an Ideas section (it’s a feature here, we just have not launched it yet) once we can ensure the line between request and products team is there.  Definitely working on it!

Great! Looking forward to it!

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@christopherlecky , some of those things we can turn on for groups, some are all or nothing.

Definitely considering things like ‘Super Users’ where after X points/replies/threads you can get a higher status, though we have a bunch of other things in front of the pipeline.

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Can we fix whatever it is that keeps the column widths tiny. 

Take a look at the screenshot below. 

I would say 1/5th of the screen here is in use.

 

This is not just for vanity purposes. I bought an enormous monitor specificially because I have trouble reading code with linewraps. 

Yes. I am the guy that reads with one finger under the word so he can keep track of where I am.

But come one man this is  silly.

 

This is not just here workflows and many parts of the command center are the same way.

Hello fellow high-resolution guy!

 

I’ll pass your feedback to the command center folks. For the community, I’ll check with the vendor but I suspect its because its a responsive platform and scales to mobile. In either case, I’d like to use more of the realestate as well.

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This platform looks good, but is there going to be a way to archive the old forums so they are searchable? There is a wealth of knowledge there.

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Great forum - looking forward to getting into the weeds. A ton of info to read. A ton of knowledge to share

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The new community site looks great, looking forward to seeing more content!

Agreed!  I’ve probably said this before, but it bears repeating: this already feels like a real community, not just a forum to post questions.  We’re barely scratching the surface of what we have at our disposal for you to see!

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Right off the bat I see a lot of the CV staff (I assume) participating here. I take this as a positive move as the old forum seemed a little abandoned even by the CV employees. 

Absolutely.  Vaulters from every department have been contributing!  You should see a little Commvault symbol in any employees avatar/icon, too!

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