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| FundVision: Posting to FVDB | |
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These are the general Hints. With so many different hardware software platforms around, it will be difficult, nay impossible, to create any 'hints' page in reasonable space, so I'll describe how I do the posting to FVDB. I'm sure there will be something similar available on all the platforms. |
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| Creating the Post: | I create the text of the post using my Windows 95 text editor (notepad). After I'm done with it, I save it to my local disk (so that I'll have a copy - just in case the post does not make it to FVDB page for whatever reason). |
| Copying the text to 'Buffer': |
1. I move the cursor to the beginning of the text of the post I created, by holding down the 'Control' key and hitting 'Home' key. 2. Next I hold down the 'Control' and 'Shift' keys and hit the 'End' key. Which 'Hilites' the entire text of the post. 3. Now I release just the 'Shift' key. (Which means that 'Control' key is held down). And I press C, (in effect 'Control-C') |
| Pasting the text in 'Text of the Post': | I navigate to FVDB main or followup areas and click on the region 'Text of the Post' and I hold down 'Control' key and press V, (in effect 'Control-V'). |
| Submitting the Post: | That's very easy really. Just click on the button 'Submit the Post' and it is done. But wait ... before I do that, I make sure that I've filled in all the fields that are marked 'Mandatory'. |
| Viewing (Reloading): | (This is where I've committed mistake often which results in Double Post.) After the the Post is processed, the system displays a messages saying something like 'The Following Post was Added ....'. At this point I click on 'Go to FVDB' or 'Go to your Post'. (Doing this will avoid Double Post.) |
| Checking the Post: | Now I load the FVDB page back. (Several ways of doing that, I click on my bookmark.) And then I click on the post to see that it did make if as expected. (I've done programming, and it is second nature for me to give the work a final glance.) If the buffer of the browser I'm using is set to large value, then I may not see the post even after 'Reload'. In which case I hold down the Shift Key and Click on Reload. (This action flushes the Netscape buffer for the present window and forces it to actually reload the page from the server rather than from the buffer.) |
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- Salil V Gangal (September 26, 1998) | |