Voting For SWW Top Ten 2011 Ideas

[CorBlimeyLimey]

There over 25,000 members of this forum, and over 55,000 members of the official SW forum at

https://forum.solidworks.com

So how come there are so few votes cast in the Ideas section?

https://forum.solidworks.com/community/general/swworld?view=idea&numResults=15

Approx 500 Ideas have been submitted (which is good), but the current top idea has only 117 votes (which is pathetic).

At a guess, I would say less than 200 people have bothered to participate. Is it apathy? Are so many people ignorant of the Top Ten Ideas concept? Or is it shear laziness?

We are being given a direct opportunity to influence (even it is a PR gimmick) which functions of SW should be created or enhanced. That opportunity should not be wasted.

 

[EEnd]

If I go directly to the forum and select login, enter my email address and password and then hit sign in, my browser ends up in an infinite loop with address bar toggling between two URLs:

https://login.solidworks.com/nidp/saml2/sso

https://forum.solidworks.com/login.jspa?accountDisabled=true

I can log into the customer portal and view my details and subscription information, but if I click on the forum links from there I get stuck in the same loop. This happens on both my work and home computers and with both IE8 and Chrome.

There is probably a clue at the end of the second URL where it says: accountDisabled=true, but I can get to the customer portal and it shows my subscription as active there. And even if the account were disabled, an infinite loop is a pretty poor way of indicating that fact. With the difficulty that people have accessing their forum, it is not surprising that the ideas area does not get a lot of votes.

And yes, sometime when I am less annoyed by this I will contact SW or my VAR and try to get it straightened out.

Eric

 

[SnowCrash]

At a guess, I would say less than 200 people have bothered to participate. Is it apathy? Are so many people ignorant of the Top Ten Ideas concept?

Q: Did you know two of the biggest problems in society are ignorance and apathy?
A: I don't know, and I don't care.

But I am over there checking it out now.

--
Hardie "Crashj" Johnson
SW 2010 SP 4.0
HP Pavillion Elite HPE
W7 Pro, Nvidia Quaddro FX580

 

[ctopher]

CBL,
I'm in now! Finally!

Chris
SolidWorks 10 SP4.0
ctopher's home
SolidWorks Legion

 

[macduff]

Yeah!!!!! Yippie!!!!!!!Congrats sir!!!!!

Colin Fitzpatrick (aka Macduff)
Mechanical Designer
Solidworks 2010 SP 3.1
Dell 490 XP Pro SP 2
Xeon CPU 3.00 GHz 3.00 GB of RAM
nVida Quadro FX 3450 512 MB
3D Connexion-SpaceExplorer

 

[SBaugh]

As for my 2 accounts, each one has a different email address. So I can have 2 accounts, but I can't have 2 accounts with the same email. That could be some of you can't get in possibly.

Regards,

Scott Baugh, CSWP
Berry Plastics
Cad Admin\Design Engineer

http://www.scottjbaugh.com

"If it's not broke, Don't fix it!"

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