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Good day everyone and welcome to the new PTC Community! While you are getting your feet wet and learning navigation, this post can help you.   We have been working with the Lithium team to migrate all your content and make things simple.   Please utilize the Search bar as well as the Browse dropdown in the header to find content and people you find interesting; you may also Subscribe to content that interests you.  Within your profile you should see your bookmarks, subscriptions, and private massages. Please post your issues or questions here (others may have the same), and please introduce yourself. Cheers, Toby     

Looking at past ideas it looks like if you up voted an idea in the old Jive system it carried over but the new Lithium system won't let you give your own idea an up vote? Am I missing something or just don't it wrong?

Hello, can you explain th mean of levels? Thank you best regards

How do I see comments as indented?  In most of the Ideas and conversations, people reply within the coment to each other and indenting showed that flow.

Hi,   Have I set something wrong somewhere?   Our names used to come up when logged in. Now it's just the tag.   Is this new intended (unintended?) forum functionality?   346GNU

Just saw this yesterday. I am not sure how it will change the migration (or our headaches).   Lithium to acquire Jive External Online Community   https://www.lithium.com/company/news-room/press-releases/2017/lithium-to-acquire-external-online-community-business-from-jive

I want to see the current recent activity regardless of group, type, etc. when I log on.

In PTC Mathcad Questions we still have only, for example, 7 labels for Algebra & Geometry, and 2 labels for Chemical Engineering. We had separate forums for both of those topics, and they certainly had more than 7 and 2 threads in them. A lot more. Hundreds. We now have 169,438 posts (it's not clear if that's actually posts, or threads, but threads would be a more useful number), which were sorted into categories. I thought the labels were going to be assigned based on the forums the threads came from. Or was that just wishful thinking on my part?

I notice in Mathcad questtions that you can go to page 999, which is exactly filled to the bottom of the page. That's either an astonishing coincidence, or everything beyond page 999 has just been deleted (because whoever wrote the software for the forums can't handle numbers as large as 1000), and presumably every time someone adds a new thread, one more thread will be deleted from the current content. Please tell me I'm wrong.

How to view the other users profile? Older version we can see others information such as their company, location, etc... Not found on Lithium.  

I cannot find FlexPLM solution videos from various authors - need to privide links to new colleagues - Thank you - Doerthe

Previously, the FlexPLM community was present under Windchill as a seperate entity.  Now, all the historical content is merged into Windchill Ideas& Questions which makes searching and browsing content tedious since all windchill content does not apply to FlexPLM (Retail PLM).  And accesing the previous URL, throws 'Access Denied' and naviagtes to  'https://community.ptc.com/t5/FlexPLM-Quesitons/bd-p/FlexPLM'   Can the FlexPLM community be seperated ?    

Let me first say that @Tmetcalf is aware of the problem and working on it. I am just posting here as I have investigated a little bit more and I am curious if all of you have those problem, as at least on user had not. There seems to be a list which tells Lithium which extensions should be allowed for attachments. RTF is not allowed (it should be added to the list) and that's the error message you get when trying to post a file which is not allowed:   As you can read, Mathcad files with extensions mcd, xmcd, xmcdz, mcdx should be allowed. But when I try to attach Mathcad files, I get a different error message and still am not allowed to do:Here it looks like Lithium would be happy to accept an mcd file but it looked into the file and came to the conclusion that its not really a mcd file. Needless to say that all files I was trying to attach were valid Mathcad files. I am not sure how exactly Lithium will decide if a file is a true mcd file or not, but there seems to be a data

Who do i contact to get access to the following site below?   https://community.ptc.com/t5/Reporting-Ideas/How-to-automatically-pass-log-on-credentials-in-an-Excel-report/td-p/318024  

I can't find here forum about administration, which I used for 20 years. . 

Since the change to the new forum I am lost. I used to get email notifications of MathCad posts. Now I am getting nothing even though my settings are all set to default notitications.

Good day everyone, As communicated in this post we have updated the rank names to numerical levels ranging from 1 to 20.  Your rank is an indication of your involvement within PTC Community and you will rise through the rank ladder by visiting, participating, and interacting with fellow community members.    Ways to rank up: Posting questions Responding to questions Giving and receiving Kudos Creating and uploading content    The goal of ranks is to reward you for your valuable visits and participation. Cheers, Toby

When I post a question in the Help area of the community, I get label choices I can choose from. (see image)   When I post a question in the Creo Modeling questions area, I get no label choices  (see image) So if labels are going to help me see the topics I am interested in with respect to the community, why are there no choices? Am I missing something?

Now it seems to have calmed down and it got quiter,  two and a half weeks after the migration, and it looks as everybody is waiting for changes 😉Is there any timeline/time horizon which @Tmetcalf can give us as to when we can expect improvements according to change theme to a much more tidy one which wastes less space and give the message body more room enable intendted view and make it easy switching from linear view to intented view in threads and blogs more convenient overview pages (get rid of "New solutions" part), etc. enable browser spellchecker in Richt Text mode, too missing attachments (videos) missing groups, resp. creating and customizing our own groups (really miss my start page) upload problems (embed pics from clipboard & attach PTC product files w/o havin to zip first)  .... ?

I just realized that some of the posts have the little paper clip over on the right hand side and so there are pictures (.png's) or things attached to the post. Did these used to be embedded in the post but now there are not?   I thought the caterwalling was that you had to save things and then attach them (but yet embedded in the discussion). Now I just realized that they are not even in the post and you have to click on them separately. No wonder a bunch of discussions and stuff didn't make sense.

    Good day everyone, I have deployed a new feature within each product area.  It will show you items by content type. Please check it out and let me know your thoughts. Best, Toby                  

Previously, I could access an group called 'Reporting' which had document - "Resource for Reporting" https://community.ptc.com/t5/Reporting/Resource-for-reporting/gpm-p/448738 Now, i cannot see the group nor the document.    How can i join the reserved group ? and access content ??   Edit: After receiving the invite from Community Admin, i was able to access the Reserved Group.   Thnaks! Vijay

Is statuses (?) for Ideas still applicable? This Idea has been implemented, can the status be changed to implemented or ?? or are there no statuses for ideas?

When I look at the overview in "PTC Community Help" I can see if there are new posts in one of its three sections. Thats nice (and would even be nicer if we could get rid of the "new solotions" part so weI would not be forced to scroll down to see that information) In the example above I see that there a 4 new posts in "Welcome ..." and when I go to this section, which is a collection of threads, the threads with the new posts have bubbled to the top and when the "n REPLIES" is written in green, thta thread contains posts I haven'r read already. Its nice to have back (compared to the old Mathcad collab) this new/read feature. Unfortiunately this comfort is completely lost when it comes to "Communities Announcements". This is a collection of blogs and the "14 NEW" in the overview refers to comments in some of those blogs. As with "documents" in Jive (which were hard to impossible to follow, too) a blog will not bubble to the top just because a comment was made. Looking at the list of po

There used to be a way to watch previous PTC webinars. I'm specifically looking for the webinars with demos of upcoming upgrades to FlexPLM. Are those gone now, or am I just looking in the wrong place? (I've checked under FlexPLM Ideas and FlexPLM Questions.)