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Voting For SWW Top Ten 2011 Ideas

Voting For SWW Top Ten 2011 Ideas

Voting For SWW Top Ten 2011 Ideas

(OP)
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.

RE: Voting For SWW Top Ten 2011 Ideas

I can't login to the SW site, although I pay maintenance.
I have tried for a couple years to get help from SW and my VAR, I guess they don't know how to update my info.
They gave up on me, therefore I gave up on their forums, etc.
Otherwise I would participate in the ideas.

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

RE: Voting For SWW Top Ten 2011 Ideas

(OP)
Why not just create a new account?

You don't even need a current subscription to create an account. I don't know if that applies to the Ideas section though.

RE: Voting For SWW Top Ten 2011 Ideas

I created two, still can't login.
Called them numerous times, no go.
Oh well...

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

RE: Voting For SWW Top Ten 2011 Ideas

(OP)
From the same computer?

RE: Voting For SWW Top Ten 2011 Ideas

(OP)
Are you able to access the Customer Portal?
Have you tried creating a Guest account?
If that works try upgrading the account via the Register My Products section.

RE: Voting For SWW Top Ten 2011 Ideas

No.
Yes.
Tried.

The email I tried in the past, this company and two others, will not allow me to login.
SW and my VAR tell me it has been fixed, but still does not work.

I recently received a new work email account.
I will try with this new email.

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

RE: Voting For SWW Top Ten 2011 Ideas

(OP)
Perhaps it's just you they don't want then. poke

RE: Voting For SWW Top Ten 2011 Ideas

CBL.
I submitted 5 ideas and hardly received any votes. I did get a few good comments. Nice thing that they have this year is you can see who voted on your ideas, and shows how they voted.

If you would like to see my ideas, here are the links:
https://forum.solidworks.com/ideas/1352
https://forum.solidworks.com/ideas/1348
https://forum.solidworks.com/ideas/1350
https://forum.solidworks.com/ideas/1379
https://forum.solidworks.com/ideas/1370

Like CBL mentioned, this is where SW users can be heard!

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

RE: Voting For SWW Top Ten 2011 Ideas

If you have more than 1 account, SW website blocks the user from logging in. Not by choice, but because it knows you have 2 accounts. Unfortunately your VAR has to contact SW to fix the problem, or you can call SW to have them fix the problem.

When SW support explains to you that you need to contact your VAR, then you explain to them you have and they have not go back in touch with me... blah, blah, blah. Bascially it black flags the VAR and they can dinged by SW and of course the flag travels downward to the support rep, which should have done the job in the first place. So provide any information you can to SW to make sure the responsbile person remembers next time something like this happens again.

Regards,

Scott Baugh, CSWP pc2
Berry Plastics
Cad Admin\Design Engineer
www.scottjbaugh.com

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RE: Voting For SWW Top Ten 2011 Ideas

My idea: https://forum.solidworks.com/ideas/1475
Voting for it helps the colorblind, so help us stop making yellow parts green, red parts brown...

Thanks!

Jeff Mirisola, CSWP
Design Manager/Senior Designer
M9 Defense
My Blog

RE: Voting For SWW Top Ten 2011 Ideas

Uh, Scott, I have two accounts and can log in...

Jeff Mirisola, CSWP
Design Manager/Senior Designer
M9 Defense
My Blog

RE: Voting For SWW Top Ten 2011 Ideas

(OP)
https://forum.solidworks.com/ideas/1466

Quote:

Fix ALL Current-Version Bugs, Regressions, etc BEFORE Releasing New Version

I know it won't happen but, as stated, it would be interesting to see how SW would handle the situation if it did top the list. <evil grin>

RE: Voting For SWW Top Ten 2011 Ideas

Whenever I try following those links, my browser ends up in a loop talking to the login server, the forum server, the login server ...

I can log in and get to the forums, but I did not see an obvious route to the idea voting area.  Can any of you tell me where to find it?

Eric

RE: Voting For SWW Top Ten 2011 Ideas

You have to log on to the forums to continue on to the links.  It's easy.  There's a log-in link above the "you must be logged in" messge.

Matt Lorono
Lorono's SolidWorks Resources & SolidWorks Legion

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RE: Voting For SWW Top Ten 2011 Ideas

(OP)
The Ideas link is a small light bulb icon at the top LH corner of the page, just below the Search field.

RE: Voting For SWW Top Ten 2011 Ideas

Jeff,

Your not suppose to be able to.

I have been to the site and I have voted and placed a my idea out there, that I have been having problems with time and time again.

Scott Baugh, CSWP pc2
Berry Plastics
Cad Admin\Design Engineer
www.scottjbaugh.com

Quote:

"If it's not broke, Don't fix it!"
FAQ731-376: Eng-Tips.com Forum Policies

RE: Voting For SWW Top Ten 2011 Ideas

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

RE: Voting For SWW Top Ten 2011 Ideas

Quote:

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

 

RE: Voting For SWW Top Ten 2011 Ideas

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

RE: Voting For SWW Top Ten 2011 Ideas

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 pc2
Berry Plastics
Cad Admin\Design Engineer
www.scottjbaugh.com

Quote:

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