wish list item...

[John Esak]

Hi Lauren,

Question, how does the wish list on the new FP forum work? Is it in place so
that people can add wish lists there. Can the new support forum possibly
accommodate new wish lists as a special support function. In other words
instead of starting a support question or incident, you could notate that
this is just a wish list you are submitting... and it gets put onto a (the)
list and prioritized and responded to in some way?

Meanwhile,

Tony Ryder just came up with a good wish list item in the FP Room.

When you use the block function LOAD and SAVE on a processing table:

LOAD) Immediately after entering the line at which the process snippet is to
be loaded, rcabe should show you an F6 listing of the files, then choosing a
file should show you the processes available for that file, and then
choosing the process you want should load it.

SAVE) When a file is saved, rcabe should tell you if that process name
already exists and query as to whether you want to overwrite it.

Now, if this were put on the "new" wish list in the FP forum, one could hope
that say weekly perhaps, someone at FP Tech could run down the submissions
and give them a number which could then be tracked like a support incident.
Eventually, after discussed by FP Tech, a response on the order of
"possible/impossible/desirable/not-desirable" whatever could be assigned to
it. And better yet, eventually a tentative yes/no as to whether it might be
included in a future update.

I must say, this suggestion has been made at least 50 times before,
publicly, privately, etc. The first I remember is in The Guru Magazine back
circa Version 3.0/4.1. It is simply time that someone, somehow, some way
from FP Tech answers it. My feeling is now that the support forum engine is
in place, there is an excellent and *easy* way to finally implement it... so
can we can some response this time to how wish lists are handled and will be
handled in the future?  Thanks.

cc: filePro Forum