Help desk thread? Need help with the new forum design?

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If you can’t figure out how to do something in the new CAF interface, members might possibly come to your aid here. ☺️
 
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Trying tags but I do not get it.
I am supposed to write a # in the middle of a sentence.
H2. Water…ughhh
 
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That was easy. : D
So what is a tag? lol …can you give an example in this thread?
 
Hi Jamal!!
Not the tag. …yet
But I wasn t able to find the editor. Until bliff!!! I found it!
I do not understand even what that tag or categories that are related to the # are.
So,if you can help me…🙂
 
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You can tag users simply by typing the “@” symbol before a user’s name (with no space)
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If you just type the “@” symbol, you will see a popup of suggestions which will include the other frequent posters in the thread. So when I typed “@”, you were the top two posters listed because you arethe only two who have posted to this thread.

You can also insert tags of categories with a “#”. Again, a box will pop up with suggestions. So you can say #apologetics or #catholic-living:popular-media. These create hyperlinks that will take someone directly to that category page. Note that you have to insert a dash in place of a space for any two word categories, and you use a colon to add a subcategory.

This thread makes me realize that one of the things we were expecting with the new forum was the ability to tag posts and threads as being part of a certain category. But that doesn’t appear to be an option.
 
Thanks Joe!
I will try and let you know if I need further help.
 
Joe,Jamal,sorry to bother here again…
But where do you type the @ and the #?
I ve been tying it in the reply and in the " magnifying glass" for search,but nothing happens…
Thanks in advance!
 
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@graciew

Hmmm…Joe is way better at this than I am. I tend to use the forum in a fairly rudimentary way and I can see that Joe seems to like all the bells and whistles. I will see if can’t figure something out.
 
Thank you, Jamal.
There is really no hurry.
So far so good.
I try all the features just in case.
Thanks so much for this space!
 
Yes, I am more an idea person. I generally hand off at that point. Lol
 
OK I see what a tag is now, it links you to that thing when you tap on it.

@jamalchristophr
Etc…

and then categories…

#Catholic News
 
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Joe said suggestions pop up…but now where I’m at so not sure what that is all about.

the # thing does not work for me as he described it.
 
Both took me to your profile and the category.
No pop-ups either.
But that is the interesting thing: this is Discovery Channel!😜
 
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I can see you like to learn this stuff so you should take the two user tutorials using this automated application called “discobot”…this is what happens when you type these words in a pm or just in some thread such as this…a pm will get sent to you that is a tutorial … just follow it along and you’ll learn quite a number of things.

@discobot
 
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I did. I took both. But I had to skip the “tag” part because I didn t understand a thing…😳
 
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