What category of forums should be here?

As we start to get this community moving I'm wondering what specific forum categories we should have.  I don't want long messy navigation but I'm sure some sort of categorisation would be useful.  So, I set up three and I'll leave the rest open for discussion.

What do you think?

Paul

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  • maybe project examples and a sub categorisation?

    It might be useful to provide users with some sample projects, sort of shell projects if you like, that include all the required API references and the basic template code structure to perform some specific functionality like 'My first SDL Xliff reader' or 'My first TM Provider' etc...

    Note: we don't need to include or reveal all our hard work in these example projects Smile; just the basic project structure and how it all fits together.

    From my impression, even though the SDL SDK documentation is very complete, I have seen that developers (including me Stick out tongue ) have had some difficulty taking that first step in understanding how to put it all together (i.e. implementing the API's & setting up a working project); maybe some basic but complete (shell projects) would jump start the community.

    I already wrote a small (but complete) project of this nature (SdlXliffReaderExample) to help out another team; It includes all source code for a sample project that provides functionality to iterate through an SDLXLIFF file and recover all the segment pairs.  The project also demonstrates how to provide compatibility for both versions of Studio (2009 & 2011).

    Maybe this type of project and other projects of this type could help other developers getting started?

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    maybe project examples and a sub categorisation?

    It might be useful to provide users with some sample projects, sort of shell projects if you like, that include all the required API references and the basic template code structure to perform some specific functionality like 'My first SDL Xliff reader' or 'My first TM Provider' etc...

     
    This is an excellent idea Patrick.  I'm wondering if we could use the wiki pages for this, or whether it would be better as you say, with a forum for this and sub categories for each template?  I think you almost want to provide the information in a way it won't be lost as the forum gets busier,and than have a Forum for discussion on the templates... so something like a getting started forum.
     
    Costas Nadalis said:
     I also think that a "My First OX App installer" will be greatly appreciated together with whatever requirements or guidelines can be provided for building OX apps or publishable Multiterm Databases.

    I can fix up something like My first SdlTm Export, My first SdlTm Import and My first SdlTm Create.

     
    Also a very good idea.  I hadn't thought about how to make these things easier... I don't know how to develop with the SDK so assumed all you guys just didn't need it..!  But you're right, and even thinking about this makes me think I could... even though I probably couldn't Tongue Tied
     
    Maybe we can have a play with the pages next week and see how it would look?
     
    Paul

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  • Unknown said:

    maybe project examples and a sub categorisation?

    It might be useful to provide users with some sample projects, sort of shell projects if you like, that include all the required API references and the basic template code structure to perform some specific functionality like 'My first SDL Xliff reader' or 'My first TM Provider' etc...

     
    This is an excellent idea Patrick.  I'm wondering if we could use the wiki pages for this, or whether it would be better as you say, with a forum for this and sub categories for each template?  I think you almost want to provide the information in a way it won't be lost as the forum gets busier,and than have a Forum for discussion on the templates... so something like a getting started forum.
     
    Costas Nadalis said:
     I also think that a "My First OX App installer" will be greatly appreciated together with whatever requirements or guidelines can be provided for building OX apps or publishable Multiterm Databases.

    I can fix up something like My first SdlTm Export, My first SdlTm Import and My first SdlTm Create.

     
    Also a very good idea.  I hadn't thought about how to make these things easier... I don't know how to develop with the SDK so assumed all you guys just didn't need it..!  But you're right, and even thinking about this makes me think I could... even though I probably couldn't Tongue Tied
     
    Maybe we can have a play with the pages next week and see how it would look?
     
    Paul

    Paul Filkin | RWS Group

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