2008 Wishlist

[Former Member]

It's 30 mins into the New Year for me and that means it's time for you all to give us your 2008 wishlist for SDN and BPX! Just reply and type away - interesting ones will open a new thread for comments otherwise please keep this thread clean to only one entry per person!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!! From the Whole of the Community Network team!

[former_member188975 · Accepted solution]

Hello,

Is it possible to move the "Mark all threads as read" command to someplace where it can't be clicked by accident? Or is it possible to add another dialog pop-up (like: Are you sure) to it, so that if someone happens to click on it, it gives you a second chance?

Thanks!

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Move it maybe, but the forum is slow enough as it is. Please - no "are you sure" buttons.

Rob

[Former Member]

I have a 2009 wish.

Can we have a forum for SAP Outlooksoft ? My company has been using Outlooksoft for FI and Planning for past many years. Since we have SAP HCM in place and Outlooksoft is now a SAP product, the top bosses want to know when can we start doing Headcount reporting in Outlooksoft. I was looking for information all over the web (integration between SAP HCM and Outlooksoft)and didnt find many.

Thanks

Rinky

Edited by: Sanghamitra on Feb 2, 2009 2:39 PM

[marilyn_pratt]

The answer to that wish is pretty standard. Get critical mass, meaning have a large number of community members create the request in the forum for suggestions as a thread that others can comment on. When we have a large enough request with a broad enough scope of community "supporters" we try to accomodate. It also helps to have moderator or Product Manager support and buy-in so that there are SAP folks supporting this idea as well.

Having broad support means folks from different companies, geographic locations in most cases so no "stuffing the ballot".

[former_member205352]

Do we have "Food for points" concept this time around ? or something similar ?

If not then its under Wishlist 2009.

It was inspiring for contribution last time around.

[pokrakam]

I wish for a 2009 Wishlist

[lbreddemann]

Just a little and (hopefully easy to realize) wish:

Please make the national flags in the user business cards click-able so that they link to the corresponding entry in e.g. Wikipedia.

Or, if this creates problems that I've not anticipated yet, add a description text to the little picture, stating the name of the nation the flag stands for.

Unfortunately I don't know how every flag of the world would look like in that micro-size format and personally I find it quite interesting, where other users come from.

regards,

Lars

[pokrakam]

Two workarounds:

• Right-click on the flag -> properties - you may need to select the URL to make it scroll all the way to the end - and the filename is always the country ISO code - e.g. GB.gif.

• Flags.net has an excellent [search facility|http://www.flags.net/search.php] which is much more fun.

I agree though it would be nice to at least have an ALT text so that hovering the mouse over the image would bring up the country name.

[lbreddemann]

Hi Mike,

sure enough I'd figured this out already. But performing these kinds of "investigations" is just too much of a hassle for a nice-to-know information.

Anyhow, the flag lookup facility our provided a link for is awesome. Thanks for sharing this.

regards,

Lars

[marilyn_pratt]

 too much of a hassle

Duly noted

I'll add the request to wish list with no promises that it is implemented, but a least it will be looked at.

Thanks Mike and Lars.

[darren_hague]

Please don't make me have to scroll all the way down the page to find the horizontal scrollbar in the forums (see [here|/thread/932758 [original link is broken] ] for example).

If I need to scroll left & right, the scrollbar should be there on screen for me. None of this IFRAME nonsense.

Cheers,

Darren

[Former Member]

> Please don't make me have to scroll all the way down the page to find the horizontal scrollbar in the forums

I second this.

The forums are what I use the most and this 'bug' is frustrating. If I didn't have to scroll horizontally, it wouldn't be a problem.

Thanks.

--

Tim

[Former Member]

I'd like to be able to use my back-button!

[pokrakam]

I'd like to use page up/down keys... they only work part-time on all browsers I use.

[Former Member]

I would like to get back the Search function within the forums... It was much better than the global search...

[jurjen_heeck]

Can we have an 'answer date' in the box 'this question is answered' ?

I'd like to see which posts in a thread lead to the answer, even if the discussion went on afterwards.

[raguraman_c]

Hi,

We had a section Complete List of top contributors, this showed all time points for all the toppers.

I don't find it anymore, that was really encouraging and helped to find the top contributors/specialists. This enabled to read their posts, blogs....

There people perform excellently in forums but might not be brought into limelight if you consider the whole category they may not be in top list. We can't blame them because their area of expertise is to that forum and depends on the total posts in that particular forum.

Reinstating this complete list of toppers would encourage and help many people.

Please reinstate the same. This is my Wish to my good Genie

Many Thanks.

--Ragu

[Former Member]

The list is still there and you find it on the left side in the area that shows your Contributor Points it's called the "Top Contributors" more than that is not and will not be made available.

[roland_mallmann]

Hmmm, a wishlist!

I'm still hoping the search function of the forum will be enhanced, as (for example) I'd like to be able to search for specific topics in specific subforums and also exclude some other subforums from my search.

There's still so much as of yet untapped potential there.

Thanks,

Roland

[Former Member]

I would like to chime in with my wishes for improved search functionality (if wishes are still welcome mid-year

[Former Member]

Most certainly welcome, harder to work on but welcome!

[Nigel_James]

I just want a bigger typeface on the blogs etc so I don't have trouble reading them on the massive screens I use (1280*800)

I know I can make them bigger in the browser but then the frame puts a scroll bar

down the side and bits get obscured.

Thanks

Nigel

[somnath_manna]

Categorization of Articles in line with Blog or other relevant Topic Areas.

Posting of reviews and scale-based feedback on articles for better visibility of Articles.

BR,

Somnath

[Former Member]

I would like some discussions round the optimal personnel structure to support a SAP ERP (and SOA) environment. Items to address will be the traditional System Analyst vs. Business Analyst (do they still exist and where to they report - business or IT).

Another area would be if you manage all SAP installations under one "flag" or do you still have a separate team for e.g. BW. Do you manage reporting separate or within modules?

So, for me it is all about optimal personnel structure within IT Business Systems environment.

[Former Member]

Is anybody else getting sick of the spam responses we get to our questions here on SDN? I see people asking reasonable questions and 75% of the time somebody will respond to the thread with an uneducated / non-researched response that sounds something like:

O helloo blah blah use transaction XQ34 (which doesn't exist). Plz reward points if useful.

Clearly these spam responses are from people trying to respond to as many questions as possible with the least amount of work in each answer in order to accumulate maximum points.

My 2008 wish is a digg-esque (www.digg.com) way to 'digg up' and 'digg down' threads and thread responses. I find a lot of the threads on SDN are getting extremely spammy and one way to cut down on this would be to allow the community to 'digg down' spam responses given to legit questions, or to digg down spam threads.

Perhaps instead of points, positive 'diggs' could be used.

That's my wish!

L

Edited by: L on Jan 2, 2008 4:14 PM

[marilyn_pratt]

May the year 2008 be a year of “lead and learn” for our community and its members beyond software innovation and program development. Let it be a year of activism where each member commits and contributes to feeding knowledge not only in the more conventional pursuit of development knowledge that we do well here, but by all of us working to surpass our target community contributions and enabling us all to create an amazing maximum award allocation to the [SAP Feeding Knowledge Program.|https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/weblogs?blog=/pub/wlg/7898] [original link is broken] [original link is broken] [original link is broken]; May the by-product of our collective examinations of [Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability |https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/bpx-csr]be the creation of better standards and guidelines for accountability, transparency and integrity for all of our companies, customers and partners and may that area gain global attention. Dennis Howlett wrote: "[CSR starts with individual action. Little things that have a cumulative effect.|https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/weblogs?blog=/pub/wlg/8115] [original link is broken] [original link is broken] [original link is broken];" May each member take time and effort to contribute to the [CSR content |https://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/CSR]either by learning it or leading it. Imagine 1 million participants helping drive: product responsibility indicators, environmental indicators, human rights indicators. I wish for us that each of us has the resolve, commitment and strength to make these more than just “new year’s resolutions” but transforms these ideas to something tangible, absolute and attainable. Happy, healthy 2008 for all of our members within and beyond our immediate SAP ecosystem.