Forum Update

[Conseils]

Has the board started using ip addresses to determine locales?
Everything is being forced into a foreign language even though I set the preferences to english and my browser language is english
The forum also insisted that I change my Alias ........ see HELP !!!!!!

[Molly K]

help -

The board does not use IP to determine locale - it uses UP.  NI User Profile that is.  The language you have configured in your NI User Profile will be the one used throughout ni.com (when possible).

To modify your UP, you can visit www.ni.com/profile and click on Modify Profile.

If you change your language preference in the forums, it will only be temporary until the next time you login.

Hope this helps!

[Conseils]

Something odd happened on Friday - the system asked me to confirm my 'handle' identity and swapped languages at the same time. This means that somehow I managed to change from 'Conseils' to 'Help'...... for my 'on line ID' or handle, at the same time all this was in the language of the country I was working in.

All very strange.

Thanks for the help, is there a way to swap back my on line id 'handle' or am I stuck with this one untill I can re-create the issue..

Thanks for the feeedback.

[tst]

How does board floating work?

I have a few boards floated to the top, so I can see when these boards have activity, but there are 2 problems:

First, when floating a board, there is no way to know where it will appear in the floated list. It might appear first, it might appear second, it might appear last. This is important because I want a certain order for those boards.

Second, assuming I managed to get them the way I wanted, they don't seem to stay that way. It looks like the first time you go out of the page, some of them change position and just stay in their new position from there on. This movement does not have anything to do with the general order of the boards. I think it might be "undoing" the last change on the bottom 2 floating boards, but I'm not sure.

[Molly K]

Conseils/help -

To change your "handle" or "alias" in the discussion forums, go to www.ni.com/profile and select Modify Profile.  I'm sorry for the odd user experience you had.  I saw this once in testing too, but couldn't reproduce it which made it hard to diagnose and fix.  I'm still not sure what causes it.  Is your language correct now or is that still confused?

Thanks!

[Molly K]

tst -

Not sure I have experimented with floating boards to the extent that you have yet.  Let me play with it and ask a few questions to the developers to see if we can get to the bottom of this.

Thanks!

[chilly_charly]

Molly

There is no way I can set the prefered language as English : In the forum profile, the setting is not saved, and returns to French as soon as I am disconnected.

And in the NI user profile I have no other choice than French ! Is that some kind of retaliation ? 😉

Do you think I'll be obliged to emigrate ?

[Molly K]

CC -

I have confirmed with the team here that the Country/Language combination of France/English is not an option on the NI site.  I am still working on getting the explanation on why this decision was made.  I have submitted your feedback so they can consider adding it.

My apologies for the inconvenience.

[Conseils]

Re - Forced user name change.

Thanks,  that got it and now I know how to change it should I ever need to. If it happens again I will try and get more information on what happened and why.

It feels like an old pair of slippers, worn in at the right points and soft where it should be.

Conseils/help

[chilly_charly]

Molly

Thanks for the answer. The surprizing thing is that the option was available until mid-july...