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Hi Hanno, What web technology does http://www.fixprotocol.org/ use? I am asking because if I come across anything open source freeware that could be useful here, I would be happy to share it with FIX webmasters. Regards, K. Mahesh > A word of caution on such suggestions which are generally welcome to enhance > the services offered by FPL. However, FPL is a non-profit organization that > largely depends on the payment of membership fees. There are still many more > FIX users than FPL members. There is no large permanent staff that is looking > for ideas to implement. I agree that the FPL discussion forums could be > enhanced to be more in line with other forums with better search and > navigational features. There are examples where technology was developed and > tested outside independently from FPL and then donated to FPL and this > approach has worked pretty well. FPL can and does implement incremental > changes to existing tools and services. > > > Hi Webmasters, > > > > In discussion forums search results displayed, it could be useful to have > > the following information at the top of the page, some examples:- > > > > Your search for the exact phrase "heartbeat" in all discussion forums > > matched 10,000 posts in 800 threads in 9 discussion forums > > > > Your search for all the terms "heartbeat", "108", "logon" in all discussion > > forums matched 1700 posts in 439 threads in 5 discussion forums > > > > Your search for the exact phrase "testrequest" in General Q/A discussion > > forum match 180 post in 38 threads > > > > In general, this informative text could be seen as > > > > Your search for {radio-button search option} {"actual phrase or terms"} in > > {all or specific} discussion forum(s) matched {X} posts in {Y} threads > > {(optional) in Z discussion forums} > > > > This would permit users of discussion forums search functionality to know > > what they searched for and size of resultset (how much they have to parse). > > > > Regards, > > K. Mahesh [You can unsubscribe from this discussion group by sending a message to mailto:unsubscribe+100932...@fixprotocol.org] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Financial Information eXchange" group. To post to this group, send email to fix-proto...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to fix-protocol+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/fix-protocol?hl=en.
