[OWW-Discuss] Timeout problem

[julius.lucks]

One way to do it would be to create a Hlep entry for anything like  
this that comes up: http://openwetware.org/wiki/Help:HOWTO

Other ways of dealing with it that seem to work is to have a  
community forum where threads are suggested and replied to.  I find  
these useful at first, but then unweildy when they grow very large.

Maybe a combination of both where someone is in charge of migrating  
the forum answers to polished help pages is the best way to go.

Cheers,

J

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On Feb 27, 2008, at 10:53 AM, Bill F wrote:

> Ricardo,
>
> Thanks for the comments. I'd like  to find a way to make this info  
> and other related info accessible to others: this is a frequent  
> question.
>
> We spoke of the relevance of blogs and the poor searchability  
> within OWW. I suspect I mean we've spoken around the search issue  
> rather than  directly of it. But this is a great example of a small  
> comment that will someday save someone hours of data re-entry time  
> or a decision to stop using OpenWetWare altogether. I have another  
> related comment re: getting data into the system that, if I just  
> say it here, will be useful to a few folks but because it's in an  
> email message, it will be lost to the rest of the world.
>
> How do people think we should proceed? Julius and Mac have been  
> working on "how-to" articles. Lorrie and I are working to come out  
> with a consistent and useful way of providing help for all parts of  
> out Lab Notebooks. Is better Help a solution? What do you think?
>
> Any ideas?
>
> In general I wish we had a way to take these kind of email messages  
> and turn them directly into categorized and searchable wiki  
> content. But I'm not sure email is an answer in itself.
>
> Thanks.
>
> B.
>
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 11:18 AM, Ricardo Vidal <rvidal at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
> Julius, I think I know what your timeout problem may be. It has to  
> do with your login timing out and not allowing you to post your  
> info or even going back to save the textarea field after long  
> edits, right?
>
> I had that problem and it's a big turn off. But recently I've found  
> how to overcome this and stay logged in all the time.
> Go to your preferences and set a new password (can be the same one)  
> and then select "Remember my login on this computer"
>
> That's it. Now you should be logged on permanently until you want  
> to log off.
>
> This tick box in the preferences seems to work whereas the other  
> one that exists underneath the login form, doesn't. Or at least not  
> for me (and others that I've seen mentioning this problem).
>
> -- 
> Ricardo Vidal
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