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13-Aquamarine
March 31, 2015
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The Old Farts Guide to the PTC Community - Setting Up Streams, Following Communities, & Filterin

  • March 31, 2015
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After you have an account set up, Pick on the PTC Community title to go to the Welcome page.

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    23-Emerald III
    April 2, 2015
    I saw your reply earlier Don. And I agree, no one uses “reply with quote” so if you didn’t catch the original question, you’ll always have to go looking for it.
    You won’t get emails for your replies.

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    12-Amethyst
    April 2, 2015

    Something we'll have to get changed. 🙂

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    1-Visitor
    April 14, 2015

    David, I really love this tutorial and would love to edit and add it as a document within our Community Help group within PTC Community. You also had some some good reccomentations about adding screenshots to our available documentation on Following and Streams, which I've updated here:

     

    Streams and Email Notifications - PTC Community

     

    How do I Follow people, places, and content? - PTC Community

     

    Always happy to answer any and all questions about PTC Community within our PTC Community Feedback - PTC Community, especially now that we're approaching our migration date at the end of the month.

     

    Best,

     

    - Ryan

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    13-Aquamarine
    April 14, 2015
    Please do. I made a bad assumption in the document which I corrected in an email on the mail exploder. See attached.

    It would be nice to have a complete list of subject lines. For email filtering purposes.

    The hi-lited section.
    1-Visitor
    April 14, 2015

    A full list of product communities is available here.


    12-Amethyst
    May 1, 2015


    This was an interesting tutorial. Is there a way to set up a 1-email-a-day digest? I had my exploder set up that way. It was very efficient. I'd rather not get every e-mail in real time, then have to manage them individually. Even with e-mail filters, folders, and rules, it's still more time than I want to invest in it.

    1-Visitor
    May 1, 2015

    Hi Andrew, welcome to PTC Community!

    Our system has something similar, but not as comprehensive, in the form of the Community Digest which you can set to receive once daily, twice a week, once a week, or never (disabling these emails).You can edit this setting within your Preferences page‌ by selecting your avatar at the top of the page and then selecting "Preferences" from the resulting drop-down menu.

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    I mentioned that it's not as comprehensive because provides an overview of the most important content posted within the news cycle, but does not include every update from every person, place, and content you are Following. You may want to check it out and see if it's enough for you, but it's not a full replacement for the individual email updates you receive when you Follow a place within a stream or in your community Inbox and turn on email updates (read more about Streams and Email Notifications here). Unfortunately there is no setting that enables you to configure your email updates in the same way you did on the PTC/USER portal and I can see that it'd be very efficient when Following lots of content on the site.