Inbox

Don D

There's no simple way to maneuver the inbox. If, for example, one has two or more messages in their Forum Inbox, there's not a way to read one, then go to another, if you respond to the one you read. You have to exit that, go to Lobby, click on Inbox, them wait for Inbox to come back up. Or I suppose one could click the back arrow four or five times and hope for the best, but that doesn't work either. Any way to improve this feature?

Don D

Maybe James is boycotting me.

System

Not boycotting you, Don. I just didn't have a chance to check the Forum yesterday.

I don't know anything about the Inbox (I disabled mine). Brian is trying to figure it out and will post something later.

James Sokolowski
HRhero.com

HS

[font color='blue']Talking to yourself again Don? Isn't that a sign of something? I daren't say what...x:D

Don D

I do that when people ignore me. I think it's a sign of genius or something. Right; something.

bholaway

About the Inbox feature:

Here is a view of one of the messages in my Inbox. With this (in red box) you can either Delete the message, go to the Next or Previous message, or go back to the main page of your Inbox.
[url]http://www.hrhero.com/employersforum/Images/inbox-example2.gif[/url]



After replying to a message, you have several choices for navigation, and I added the Inbox button for returning to the main Inbox page. If you want to go back to the message you just replied to, just click "Go Back".

[url]http://www.hrhero.com/employersforum/Images/inbox-example3.gif[/url]


I hope this helps.

Brian Holaway
Electronic Publishing Assistant
M. Lee Smith Publishers LLC

Don D

Now that you have added the inbox icon, it is possible to return to the remaining messages in your inbox. This keeps us from having to bounce to several other icons and buttons to get back to remaining messages. Thank you.

There remains, however, no ability to delete an inbox message unless you return to the original field and click on delete. You cannot read and delete a message. As it is, all the undeleted messages you have received ad infinitum, appear on the menu list each time you return to your inbox, and then one has to go down the list of them, clicking on the delete box for each one. This is particularly tedious.

bholaway

>There remains, however, no ability to delete an
>inbox message unless you return to the original
>field and click on delete. You cannot read and
>delete a message.

Yes, you can read and delete a message. See the above graphic. There is a delete link on every message that allows you to read and delete as you go (on the left column....From, Subject, Date, Message, Delete). Or, as you said, you can return to the main list of all your messages, check all the messages you wish to delete, and then click the Delete button.

Brian Holaway
Electronic Publishing Assistant
M. Lee Smith Publishers LLC

ray a

Along the same line, there is no way to access sent messages.

bholaway

>Along the same line, there is no way to access
>sent messages.

Good thought. The Inbox is and will likely continue to be an extremely limited feature. Adding more features (like sent items) will require programming that we don't really have time to do, especially when the feature is used by a limited number of people (less than 1% of registered users have accessed in the past month) and when there is a much better option already available (email).

I'd recommend just sticking with email. There are a lot of decent free programs out there that have some great options.

Thanks for the comments.

Brian Holaway
Electronic Publishing Assistant
M. Lee Smith Publishers LLC

Don D

AOL is the country's largest service provider. The AOL email feature doesn't work with The Forum email option. Not possible for any AOL subscriber. I know, I know...we need to talk to AOL about that. Just mentioning thoughts on possible improvements.