Finding the right answer should be easy. Together we can build and maintain a well organized, growing knowledge base by practicing a bit of good Question and Answer hygiene.
Below are 12 tips for using Answers in a way that will help the whole FlexSim community get maximum value from the site, and keep our content organized, efficient, and intuitive. These tips are adapted from this Devada article. Devada makes AnswerHub, which powers this site.
Additional pointers for using answers.flexsim.com:
Post attachments:
Advanced search functions:
A search that uses one or more words, separated by spaces.
For example: Enter transporter resource to perform a search for transporter, resource, or transporter resource.
You can refine your search by adding different symbols (+, -, [, or ]) to your search.
For example:
This Answers community includes Google Custom Search to easily enable the use of Google's powerful search engine across all FlexSim web sites, including this Answers community, our old, archived community, our online user manual, and more. Please see this question and answer for details.
If you have any questions, comments, or tips of your own that you'd like to share, please start a discussion in the comments below. We can update the article above with the best suggestions or illuminate anything that might be confusing.
I would like to suggest adding or pinning the best practices to the top of the main page at answers.flexsim.com. I just saw this article for the first time after using the answers website for a few weeks, but would have benefited from reading it on my first visit.
I'd like to second @Jon Abbott's comment. This is the first time I've seen this post, and it would be very helpful if it could "stick" to the top of the list, or if it could be linked on the side bar.
@Jon Abbott, @Cameron Pluim, @Jörg Vogel,
Thanks for the suggestion.
@Paul Toone was kind enough to make this happen. Let us know if you have any feedback.
Thanks for the actual variant. The first attempt was a bit strong. Now it is unobtrusive. I like it.
I think this knowledge forum is good for users, reselling agents and developers. And many questions are recorded in this forum.
I think this means the current manual has not enough contents for the users and agents to study and understand how to use flexsim.
These questions and answer examples should be the contents to be filled in the current manual for usage examples at the proper page.
I think all users and agents should get how to use flexsim very well through MANUAL and should be able to get almost them in ONE source.
If so, the users should read and study the manual and then search the needed in this site. Searching and finding the needed solution in many questions and answers is time-consuming.
'Manual is basic and this forum is an application' is not proper, I think. If so, manual is not needed almost.
I hope the current manual will be updated by adding the example and detail explanation and knowledge from this forum.
Different users try to find answers to their questions in different ways. The more information we have in more locations will help all users find information more readily.
This site is not a replacement for the user manual. We will continue to update the user manual to document the software appropriately.
We have moved away from our previous Technical Support mechanism of private questions and answers to a forum that is more public so that answers to questions can be preserved and seen by more than just the original questioner.
This information was being generated for years in our private Support system, and now this wealth of information is becoming publicly available and searchable.
That doesn't take away from the existing usage and maintenance of the user manual. It just makes more information available to more users in more ways so that each user can find answers to their questions faster in a way that suits their workflow.
We actually are in the process of overhauling the user manual. We have a technical writer working on it full time right now, but it is a big job - the 16.0.1 user manual is almost 1300 printed pages! One focus of the rewrite is to include more examples and tutorials.
Also, one of the intents of posting the latest user manual here on Answers is so that it will be easily searched and commented upon. We hope that useful feedback and comments made to user manual pages can help to improve the manual over time, and be incorporated into future user manual revisions where appropriate.
We hope to get the latest user manual posted here to Answers this week. The version currently posted is 7.7.
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