On November 1, we're rolling out an update to the VMware Communities platform with the following fixes:
- Filter searches by user: There's an additional field in Advanced Search where you can specify an individual user so that search returns matching results from that user only.
- Search returns individual messages, not threads: Search returns a result for each thread (instead of for each message) matching the search term.
- Email notification of private messages: There is a new preference that allows you to specify whether you get sent an email when you receive a private message. This works if your email is displayed or hidden.
- Email monitor improved: The email monitor now catches (and discards) a wider range of out-of-office replies.
- Edit Email in Profile: You can now edit your email address in your profile.
I'll give an update when these are live on the site.
Please, sometime in the near future, add to all site pages a prominent DIRECT link to the Advanced Search page, so we can all find and use Advanced Search when we want to do so. The old forums worked this way and it was thus very very easy to look for useful forum threads.
Thank you, Tom