SteveThatcher
SMT Designs
I am writing this as a relatively new member here on the rocketry forum (old to rocketry). I retired a few years ago, started a company and finally have more time to devote to rocketry. I decided to become a TRF sponsor to advertise my business and be able to contribute my skill set to the hobby. Some of you have read my posts and are aware of the altimeter drill template PDF that I have created. Because of what I design, I have and need this information as part of my business anyway. I made the document available here and will keep adding new manufacturers and devices (not just altimeters) in the future.
The issue that came up for me was how to find documents here and be able to update them if your are the author or admin for them. I have already uploaded three versions over the last month - new devices, a few corrections, etc. The forum has a tremendous resource in the people that are members here. I am proposing that Rocketry Forum add a package to it called Resource Manager or add a new Forum section called Documentation with sub forums like Electronics, Construction, GSE, Hardware, Recovery, and Motors (names and categories are suggestions).
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The Resource Manager is an official XenForo add-on that allows you to manage resources such as files and tutorials or other article-like content along side your normal forum. The aim is allow content such as files to be listed with a focus on the initial content rather than discussion surrounding it. Users can watch resources and be updated whenever a new version is released.
Resources can be sold (as a link to external purchase handling), downloaded directly from the resource manager, downloaded from an external URL, or provided without a file. The administrator can control the type of resources allowed and who can post them on a per category basis. Discussion threads can automatically be created for each resource, allowing the target forum and a thread prefix to be specified per resource category.
It is completely integrated into XenForo, including support for moderator permissions, logging, manual approval and soft-deletion, liking, news feed entries and alerts, reporting, search, spam cleaning, and statistics.
Access to Resource Manager updates and support is included as long as your XenForo license is current for support and updates. When extending your XenForo license, the cost of add-on extensions will be automatically added to the base cost.
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The no cost option is to create another category such as Documentation with sub forums for the various areas. The upside is no cost, the downside is that an admin would have to maintain messages and make them sticky so they show up at the top of each area. There wouldn't be any update notification and it would require manual maintenance from the author and an admin. The area could certainly have a discussion, but it seems to me that the rest of the forum categories that already exist handle messages very well. I suggest that there would be no discussion in the Documentation categories and the normal forum is where thoughts on what needs to be added, etc be done.
What I am asking now is for a discussion here of merits, waste of time, etc to get an idea of how people feel about what I am proposing.
Thank you!
Best regards, Steve Thatcher
The issue that came up for me was how to find documents here and be able to update them if your are the author or admin for them. I have already uploaded three versions over the last month - new devices, a few corrections, etc. The forum has a tremendous resource in the people that are members here. I am proposing that Rocketry Forum add a package to it called Resource Manager or add a new Forum section called Documentation with sub forums like Electronics, Construction, GSE, Hardware, Recovery, and Motors (names and categories are suggestions).
text description from their site
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The Resource Manager is an official XenForo add-on that allows you to manage resources such as files and tutorials or other article-like content along side your normal forum. The aim is allow content such as files to be listed with a focus on the initial content rather than discussion surrounding it. Users can watch resources and be updated whenever a new version is released.
Resources can be sold (as a link to external purchase handling), downloaded directly from the resource manager, downloaded from an external URL, or provided without a file. The administrator can control the type of resources allowed and who can post them on a per category basis. Discussion threads can automatically be created for each resource, allowing the target forum and a thread prefix to be specified per resource category.
It is completely integrated into XenForo, including support for moderator permissions, logging, manual approval and soft-deletion, liking, news feed entries and alerts, reporting, search, spam cleaning, and statistics.
Access to Resource Manager updates and support is included as long as your XenForo license is current for support and updates. When extending your XenForo license, the cost of add-on extensions will be automatically added to the base cost.
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The no cost option is to create another category such as Documentation with sub forums for the various areas. The upside is no cost, the downside is that an admin would have to maintain messages and make them sticky so they show up at the top of each area. There wouldn't be any update notification and it would require manual maintenance from the author and an admin. The area could certainly have a discussion, but it seems to me that the rest of the forum categories that already exist handle messages very well. I suggest that there would be no discussion in the Documentation categories and the normal forum is where thoughts on what needs to be added, etc be done.
What I am asking now is for a discussion here of merits, waste of time, etc to get an idea of how people feel about what I am proposing.
Thank you!
Best regards, Steve Thatcher
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