# Inductive Automation Forum Upgrade

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/inductive-automation-forum-upgrade/13975>\
**Category:** General Discussion\
**Created:** [April 3, 2017, 6:16pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/inductive-automation-forum-upgrade/13975 "2017-04-03T18:16:13Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![ryanjmclaughlin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/ryanjmclaughlin/32/4318_2.png) [@ryanjmclaughlin](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/ryanjmclaughlin)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2017, 1:43pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/inductive-automation-forum-upgrade/13975/21 "2017-04-11T13:43:38Z")

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It looks like all of my bookmarks came over fine.

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**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2017, 1:54pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/inductive-automation-forum-upgrade/13975/22 "2017-04-11T13:54:23Z")

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Yep, looks like all of mine are present.

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**Author:** ![Caleb\_Bohon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/caleb_bohon/32/3293_2.png) [@Caleb\_Bohon](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Caleb_Bohon)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2017, 2:11pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/inductive-automation-forum-upgrade/13975/23 "2017-04-11T14:11:24Z")

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Mine look fine. Thanks!

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**Author:** ![Michael.Stofan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/michael.stofan/32/3342_2.png) [@Michael.Stofan](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Michael.Stofan)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2017, 2:55pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/inductive-automation-forum-upgrade/13975/24 "2017-04-11T14:55:03Z")

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> [@Caleb\_Bohon](#):
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> Under the forum FAQ there is a broken link for "site feedback category."

Hmm... I'll take a look at why that's not working.

> [@Caleb\_Bohon](#):
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> Also I don't know about others but I would prefer a thumbs up rather than a heart for liking posts.

I'm with you on this, let's try a thumbs up instead.

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**Author:** ![Michael.Stofan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/michael.stofan/32/3342_2.png) [@Michael.Stofan](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Michael.Stofan)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2017, 3:01pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/inductive-automation-forum-upgrade/13975/25 "2017-04-11T15:01:28Z")

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Ah, found it. Turns out there’s a “Post Edit Time Limit” that defaulted to two months. I’ll disable it while we get that kinks worked out and then look at setting it to something more appropriate to our forum. Probably in terms of years instead.

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**Author:** ![ryanjmclaughlin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/ryanjmclaughlin/32/4318_2.png) [@ryanjmclaughlin](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/ryanjmclaughlin)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2017, 6:09pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/inductive-automation-forum-upgrade/13975/26 "2017-04-13T18:09:25Z")

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Just wanted to say quickly, love the update. I know an update like this can be a polarizing one, but its a vast improvement and hats off to the team as the upgrade as far as I’m concerned was executed seamlessly and without much fanfare. 👏 👍

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**Author:** ![jeffkrol](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/jeffkrol/32/3339_2.png) [@jeffkrol](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jeffkrol)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2017, 7:28pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/inductive-automation-forum-upgrade/13975/27 "2017-04-13T19:28:19Z")

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I think this update is decent!

![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/2X/d/d6bf38323a7f8405a909f5606b03f696da201bc4.jpeg)

But I noticed something odd. My “Suggested Topics” at the bottom of every post are always old posts that I made. Should it be related to the topic I am currently browsing?

Thanks and keep up the good work, these forums are invaluable to me!

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**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2017, 1:24am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/inductive-automation-forum-upgrade/13975/28 "2017-04-14T01:24:47Z")

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The only thing I’ve seen is that the “code” formatting block has to be entered manually, like so:`Some Code`where the new toolbar only has a “preformat” icon that yields:  
`Some Preformatted text Some indented text`  
without showing indents.

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**Author:** ![paul-griffith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/paul-griffith/32/37249_2.png) [@paul-griffith](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/paul-griffith)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2017, 3:24pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/inductive-automation-forum-upgrade/13975/29 "2017-04-14T15:24:31Z")

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Looks like code buttons have to be added with a plugin, but in the meantime, you can do manual syntax highlighting code blocks using three grave (`) characters in a row:

> ```sql  
> SELECT 1  
> ```

ex:

```sql
SELECT `sqlth_sce`.`scid`,
    `sqlth_sce`.`start_time`,
    `sqlth_sce`.`end_time`,
    `sqlth_sce`.`rate`
FROM `ignition`.`sqlth_sce`
WHERE `scid` = 1
ORDER BY start_time DESC;

```

```python
#add tab to tab strip
ts = event.source.parent.getComponent('Tab Strip')
tabData = ts.tabData
newTab = [tabData.getValueAt(0, col) for col in range(tabData.columnCount)]
newTab[0] = 'T%s' % tabData.rowCount
newTab[1] = 'Tab %s' % (tabData.rowCount + 1)
newTab[3] = False
ts.tabData = system.dataset.addRow(tabData, tabData.rowCount, newTab)
ts.selectedTab = newTab[0]

```

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**Author:** ![PerryAJ](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/perryaj/32/3281_2.png) [@PerryAJ](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/PerryAJ)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2017, 3:43pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/inductive-automation-forum-upgrade/13975/30 "2017-04-14T15:43:07Z")

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Discourse parses comments using [Markdown](https://github.com/adam-p/markdown-here/wiki/Markdown-Cheatsheet), which has become more common due to its use in github’s readmes, reddit’s comment system, among many others. It’s a little quirky at first due to how whitespace is dealt with, but the syntax set is pretty small and _much_ nicer than BBCode in my experience. I’ve come to find myself using it for pretty much all documentation that doesn’t require math expressions (LaTeX still reigns there…).

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**Author:** ![Michael.Stofan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/michael.stofan/32/3342_2.png) [@Michael.Stofan](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Michael.Stofan)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2017, 3:45pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/inductive-automation-forum-upgrade/13975/31 "2017-04-14T15:45:21Z")

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I’ve changed the behavior of the Preformatted Text button (and changed the icon to match). It will now do code fencing, and does a best-guess at what language you’re typing.

If you need to specify the language, add it right after the series of ``` at the beginning of the block, as in @paul-griffith’s example.

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**Author:** ![Michael.Stofan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/michael.stofan/32/3342_2.png) [@Michael.Stofan](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Michael.Stofan)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2017, 3:51pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/inductive-automation-forum-upgrade/13975/32 "2017-04-14T15:51:17Z")

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I added tagging to the forum, so now we can tag topics with Ignition versions.

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**Author:** ![mazeyrat](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/mazeyrat/32/10955_2.png) [@mazeyrat](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/mazeyrat)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2017, 5:08pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/inductive-automation-forum-upgrade/13975/33 "2017-04-14T17:08:44Z")

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Thanks a lot ! 👏👏

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**Author:** ![jim\_lapratt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cc9497/32.png) [@jim\_lapratt](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jim_lapratt)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2017, 11:36am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/inductive-automation-forum-upgrade/13975/34 "2017-04-17T11:36:04Z")

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👎

Have not tried it on mobile yet.

Just my 2c

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**Author:** ![Caleb\_Bohon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/caleb_bohon/32/3293_2.png) [@Caleb\_Bohon](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Caleb_Bohon)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2017, 5:38pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/inductive-automation-forum-upgrade/13975/35 "2017-04-17T17:38:56Z")

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Looks like the link in documentation now goes to the old forum address not to the new one. You might want to fix that.

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**Author:** ![Caleb\_Bohon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/caleb_bohon/32/3293_2.png) [@Caleb\_Bohon](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Caleb_Bohon)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2017, 7:22pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/inductive-automation-forum-upgrade/13975/36 "2017-04-18T19:22:16Z")

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Also I should say I greatly favor the new solution selector. I never liked the old one because it would close the thread.

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**Author:** ![zxcslo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/zxcslo/32/61610_2.png) [@zxcslo](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/zxcslo)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2017, 4:51pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/inductive-automation-forum-upgrade/13975/38 "2017-08-17T16:51:17Z")

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Today I tried to quote&reply to one post in the forum on my Samsung Note 4 with Chrome for Android.  
But I couldn’t…  
When I try to select text to copy, first Chrome pop-up shows for copy, paste, select all; at the same moment, forums pop-up shows for Quote, then both disappears.  
So there is no way to select&quote text…  
Or it’s only on my phone…?  
Can somebody try and report back, please?  
🖖

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**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2017, 5:08pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/inductive-automation-forum-upgrade/13975/39 "2017-08-17T17:08:40Z")

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> [@zxcslo](#):
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> When I try to select text to copy, first Chrome pop-up shows for copy, paste, select all; at the same moment, forums pop-up shows for Quote, then both disappears.

Same behavior on my Pixel + Chrome. Maybe it's fixed or will be fixed in a future version of Discourse.

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**Author:** ![zxcslo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/zxcslo/32/61610_2.png) [@zxcslo](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/zxcslo)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2017, 5:11pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/inductive-automation-forum-upgrade/13975/40 "2017-08-17T17:11:35Z")

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Just for info:  
I tried with Samsung Internet browser:  
there you can select&copy text (browsers pop-up), but forums pop-up for quote never shows up…

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**Author:** ![leslishambly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@leslishambly](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/leslishambly)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2019, 6:57am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/inductive-automation-forum-upgrade/13975/44 "2019-04-26T06:57:07Z")

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new interface very attractive and user-friendly. Great work.

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