Re: Member feedback on the TPA Files area.

[Guest guest]

HI DEL

I find it difficult to locate what I want to know in the files section. One

tends to look at the outer folder, as a guide.

For instance all the

Vitamins should go in a folder named Vitamins.

Anything relating to tests should go into a folder called tests.

What can happen is if you then have to open folders inside folders, and I too

have found problems like this on my computer which I am having to sort out.

I think it is best not to have folders inside folders.

For instance with the folder named Electrolytes and if there are several

articles about potassium you want the potassium ones to come in the same place,

so the word potassium comes first followed by any further headings. Once

everything is in alphabetical order its easy to scroll down.

I could also do with a spelling checker on the forums.

Kathleen

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> Hello all...

> Having offered my services to the TPA in gratitude for giving me the

> knowledge to get my health back, I have been asked to have a look at

> sorting out the FILES section.

> I have already had a good look-see and shuffled some files about but I

> would be grateful for some feedback from members with regards to how you

> currently use the Files section : if you don't use it, then please tell

> me why; what you feel would be an improvement; or, indeed, any

> constructive comments you wish to make.

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> I am happy for people to contact me privately with their thoughts if

> they wish to do so.

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> Del.

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> Lilian : Many thanks for your offer. I shall be contacting you shortly.

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[Guest guest]

I find it difficult to use the files as I have to download them and then search

the desk top for them to open them, can't always find them because of the amount

of stuff my other half has on already.

If there was a search box for buzz words that would bring up a list of stuff

that applied that would be really easy to use.

[Guest guest]

Hi Janet, unfortunately, it is up to what we can

have and what we can't. They don't allow us a spell checker unfortunately. How

do you mean that you " have to download them and then search the desktop

for them to open them " . You should just be able to click on the Folder

holding the documents on that particular subject, and then click on the

particular document you want to read, and it should open there. Perhaps you

need to open a New Folder of your own so any that you can open, you simply save

them in your own TPA Files Folder, to keep it separate to what your husband has

on his desktop.

Luv - Sheila

I find it difficult to use the files as I have to download them and then search

the desk top for them to open them, can't always find them because of the

amount of stuff my other half has on already.

If there was a search box for buzz words that would bring up a list of stuff

that applied that would be really easy to use.

[Guest guest]

Hi Kathleen, as far as I am aware, you cannot upload a folder

into another folder. The folders contain documents about the particular Subject

Heading of that folder only. Inside a folder, the different documents are

listed alphabetically, and we cannot change that because that is automatically

configured by . Also, do not give us a spell checker, so we

cannot change that. Sorry!

Luv - Sheila

HI DEL

I find it difficult to locate what I want to know in the files section. One

tends to look at the outer folder, as a guide.

For instance all the

Vitamins should go in a folder named Vitamins.

Anything relating to tests should go into a folder called tests.

What can happen is if you then have to open folders inside folders, and I too

have found problems like this on my computer which I am having to sort out.

I think it is best not to have folders inside folders.

For instance with the folder named Electrolytes and if there are several

articles about potassium you want the potassium ones to come in the same place,

so the word potassium comes first followed by any further headings. Once

everything is in alphabetical order its easy to scroll down.

I could also do with a spelling checker on the forums.

Kathleen

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>

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> Hello all...

> Having offered my services to the TPA in gratitude for giving me the

> knowledge to get my health back, I have been asked to have a look at

> sorting out the FILES section.

> I have already had a good look-see and shuffled some files about but I

> would be grateful for some feedback from members with regards to how you

> currently use the Files section : if you don't use it, then please tell

> me why; what you feel would be an improvement; or, indeed, any

> constructive comments you wish to make.

>

> I am happy for people to contact me privately with their thoughts if

> they wish to do so.

>

> Del.

>

>

>

> Lilian : Many thanks for your offer. I shall be contacting you shortly.

>

[Guest guest]

HI SHEILA

Regarding folders inside of folders, take a peep at the more technical Thyroid

group Lab gear, and BOB is the culprit. He not only places a folder inside

another folder, but some have another inside of that.

Also among my computer problems that I had, had lately, was that I could not

open the files. I had to look into all this on the Microsoft site, and in the

end I got hold of " Microsoft Word Viewer " to open them. You can either opt to

save the file, or you can ask to open it, but I usually download them to the

desktop and then from there send them into a TPA Folder. I have just come across

a very good file on the Adrenal Glands.

Kathleen

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> Hi Kathleen, as far as I am aware, you cannot upload a folder into another

> folder. The folders contain documents about the particular Subject Heading

[Guest guest]

Ooops! I had no idea. Perhaps you need to work with Bob and tell

him where he is going wrong Kathleen. Can you do this off forum though please.

Luv -= Sheila

HI SHEILA

Regarding folders inside of folders, take a peep at the more technical Thyroid

group Lab gear, and BOB is the culprit. He not only places a folder inside

another folder, but some have another inside of that.

Also among my computer problems that I had, had lately, was that I could not

open the files. I had to look into all this on the Microsoft site, and in the

end I got hold of " Microsoft Word Viewer " to open them. You can

either opt to save the file, or you can ask to open it, but I usually download

them to the desktop and then from there send them into a TPA Folder. I have

just come across a very good file on the Adrenal Glands.

Kathleen

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> Hi Kathleen, as far as I am aware, you cannot upload a folder into another

> folder. The folders contain documents about the particular Subject Heading

[Guest guest]

Hello Kathleen,

Thanks for taking the time to respond, your comments are very constructive and

have been noted.

Could you please explain what you mean with the following as I don't quite

understand :

" What can happen is if you then have to open folders inside folders, and I too

have found problems like this on my computer which I am having to sort out. "

Both the Folders and the files they contain are sorted alphabetically as decreed

by , although I have found some examples in the files that don't quite live

up to this edict and I can't quite work out why. :-)

Many thanks.

Del.

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> HI DEL

> I find it difficult to locate what I want to know in the files section. One

tends to look at the outer folder, as a guide.

> For instance all the

> Vitamins should go in a folder named Vitamins.

> Anything relating to tests should go into a folder called tests.

> What can happen is if you then have to open folders inside folders, and I too

have found problems like this on my computer which I am having to sort out.

> I think it is best not to have folders inside folders.

> For instance with the folder named Electrolytes and if there are several

articles about potassium you want the potassium ones to come in the same place,

so the word potassium comes first followed by any further headings. Once

everything is in alphabetical order its easy to scroll down.

> I could also do with a spelling checker on the forums.

> Kathleen

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[Guest guest]

Hi Sheila,

I have the same " problem " as Janet. If I want to read a Word Document (.doc)

from the files area, my Google Chrome browser has to download that document to

my PC. I then have to double click it so that it runs the Word software in

order for me to read it. This isn't a problem for me as Google Chrome shows the

file in a little bar at the bottom of the browser window and I just open it from

there. Mind you, I have umpteen dozen copies of the same document downloaded to

my " Downloads " folder as it insists on downloading a copy every time I click on

it in the Files area!

With .pdf documents, on the other hand, I click the right-hand-mouse button

whilst hovering over the filname and select " open link in new tab " from the menu

and the documents opens up in a new tab in the browser I am using. Nothing gets

downloaded to my PC and I am free to save the document to where I want to should

I wish to do so.

Pip! Pip!

Del.

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> Hi Janet, unfortunately, it is up to what we can have and what

> we can't. They don't allow us a spell checker unfortunately. How do you mean

> that you " have to download them and then search the desktop for them to open

> them " . You should just be able to click on the Folder holding the documents

> on that particular subject, and then click on the particular document you

> want to read, and it should open there. Perhaps you need to open a New

> Folder of your own so any that you can open, you simply save them in your

> own TPA Files Folder, to keep it separate to what your husband has on his

> desktop.

>

> Luv - Sheila

[Guest guest]

HI DEL

In main the LAB GAB Forum is where the folders inside of folders. For instance

you open a folder, and inside this folder there are several folders, and inside

of these there is another folder, and one can get lost inside these folders.

This is also what I have ended up doing on my computer, but if you are not

careful you can end up with a string of folders, and in turn you can lose what

you are looking for.

It is far easier to scroll down folders that are in alphabetical order than to

search inside a string of folders.

I also think it is easier if every information, for example about Calcium is put

on one file, as then you would not have to have several files about calcium, and

likewise for Potassium etc.

If you have a file say on Potassium and more information comes to hand instead

of adding further files, you simply add it or update the file on Potassium.

When I do calendars because the months do not come in alphabetical order I put

in front of January 001 then February has 002, but if I have then have several

different designs each design gets a seperate folder, but its best not to put

them one inside another.

I also find that Windows recognises three figure numbers and puts them in order.

Kathleen

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> Hello Kathleen,

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> Thanks for taking the time to respond, your comments are very constructive and

have been noted.

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> Many thanks.

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> Del.

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[Guest guest]

The files should be like a filing cabinet.

Each drawer (folder) given a name and inside are all the segments (files) appertaining to that name.

To find out how the headings should be just look in the yellow pages. If you are looking for a garage you would look under G - Garage. After that you get more information about the various garages.

Here, if someone wants to know about say Adrenals, they could well miss a really good article about it, because what they are looking for is not under A for Adrenals, it is under E for Excellent article.

Sometimes something could be put in one folder but also in another - so put it in both. Or if not put in both put in one file where (or the link) to where it can be found in the other one (cross reference).

That is why I thought that all articles should be sent to one person (who would be our filing clerk) to put in the files.

Not just every member just putting things in the files, naming it whatever they think and it gets all messy again. The contents may be perfect but unless you have a proper filing system it will get missed anyway.

As you know if something is not filed properly it can take ages, if ever, to be found again.

No different from stuffing things in your cupboards and drawers at home. If things weren't put in some kind of order you will never find them or take ages to.

Think how you put things away in the house. It would be chaos if things were put anywhere in the house. You would be spending hours looking for things and maybe not even find them.

It is all very well having fantastic information if nobody can find it.

Lilian

[Guest guest]

Splendidly well said (written?) Lilian! I couldn't agree more. I'm working on

it, honest. It's just that occasionally I find things that makes me want to

bang my head on the wall... ;-))

Del.

> The files should be like a filing cabinet.

>

> Each drawer (folder) given a name and inside are all the segments (files)

appertaining to that name.

>

> To find out how the headings should be just look in the yellow pages. If you

are looking for a garage you would look under G - Garage. After that you get

more information about the various garages.

>

[Guest guest]

HI LILIAN

I could not agree with you more in having a filing clerk in charge of organizing

the files, and like the others I too have to download a word doc onto the PC and

then open it, but a PDF file you can open it and read it. The text files only

appear to have links on them, or at least that is all I can see on them.

Kathleen

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> The files should be like a filing cabinet.

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> Each drawer (folder) given a name and inside are all the segments (files)

appertaining to that name.

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> Lilian

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