Post Attachments Listing to 1 February 2004

[Marc]

Looking for an attachment? I'm seeking a way to list attachments by forum or such, but for now here is a listing of all the attachments to posts in threads including links to the posts.

http://Elsmar.com/level2/Attachments-List.html

Note that the page linked to is almost 900K so it will be very slowwwww to load on a dialup.

[Marc]

I updated the file today. These files are available to all Registered users and all other forum user groups.

[Greg B]

Marc,

This is an incredible resource. Thank you.


Greg B

[Greg B]

I recently went into the USER CP 'Attachments' File and viewed all of the files and photos that I had uploaded and I was amazed at what was downloaded the most. Here are the top Four:

http://elsmar.com/Forums/attachment....tachmentid=708 from April 2003. This dealt with the correlation between Safety, Environment and Quality in that they are all protection devices. Safety protects people and plant, Environment protects People and the planet and Quality protects the Product. It works well in our company and we have the poster in lots of places. It has been downloaded 73 times.

http://elsmar.com/Forums/attachment....tachmentid=709 April 2003. This deals with culture and is pretty self explanatory. We do what we do in our life because of our surroundings. This is my personal favourite and we use it in ALL inductions and to get the quality message across. It has been downloaded 74 times.

http://elsmar.com/Forums/attachment....tachmentid=810 May 2003. This is a presentation I did after we found a need to introduce our staff to the Process Approach. It has gone over fairly well at work but they still want ME to write everything for them. This has been downloaded the most at 131 times. So I hope someone is getting better use out of it than me.

http://elsmar.com/Forums/attachment....achmentid=1343 Sep 2003. This was the second highest download and is another powerpoint presentation dealing with Why we choose quality and is mainly used for introducing the workforce to the QMS. It has been downloaded 83 times

I would like to see what people have downloaded of yours. I was astounded to find out I had uploaded so much material and that so many people were using it (after all that is why I post it). I like feedback and I don't mind others using my stuff as I usually found it somewhere else or was helped by someone else. I had some cartoons in the Numour thread that had a few downloads yet I had some material that I thought was important (probably more than the stuff above) and yet they were lucky to have 10 hits. Is this because people are not reading all of the posts in a thread or that they are concentratin gonly on one area of the Forum???

Food for thought.

Greg B

[Randy]

Marc old buddy you gotta get a life How much time did you put into this list? I have spent literallly hours looking for a particular attachment and you have shortened the time considerably for future work.

Thanks pal .

[Marc]

Greg B - you didn't have to delete your post. You can 'undelete' it if you like. I don't mind you folks discussing attachments. I just wanted to pull the threads together in case anyone wasn't aware of the list. Some folks don't frequent threads in this forum.

In fact, some discussion would be beneficial. What files are really good and worth a look?

A serious gap in this software is a way for people to see what attachments there are and, basically, the stuff on the list such as who posted it, how many times downloaded, etc. The list is from a view I - as an administrator - can get. I *hope* to find a way to put in a link where users can get the same view.

Personally I'd like a way to view attachments by forum and am looking at a way to hack that in.

Atul - you're the software person - any ideas? If you need to see the files I can send you a copy to look at and set up on a test board.

There is something like this for forums with photos - it's basically a scrapbook like addition. But I haven't seen it done for attachments to posts.

So - for now, about once a month I'll update the list. Yes - it does take some time. I have to copy the source from my browser, paste it into BBEdit, clean it up (actually it's a 'view' for me to 'manage' attachments which has delete links and such that I have to remove), import it into Excel so I can easily number the files and sort by name, export it from Excel and then clean THAT file up including fixing all the links and then posting the file. I don't mind spending the time and in part is why I started charging to access attachments in March 2003. Not specifically to make that list, but my time to maintain the site, in addition to the server costs then and related issues, made it sensible.

Luckily the advertising is working well - which is why I opened up access to post attachments in the business forums to every registered user - no contribution required. I never wanted to charge, but the site doesn't self maintain as it did a few years back. So - visit an advertiser now and again and see what they have to offer and things like the 'Monthly List' will continue until I find a way to let users do a listing themselves. I don't see that on vBulletin's list of 'to incorporate' features for the next version (heck - this one's not even 'gold' yet).

[gpainter]

Excellent resource!!

[Marc]

There are a lot of attachments to threads here. No doubt about it!