Portals Page Beta Suggestion Thread

[Captain Ewok 1,891]

The info on the left is for your country. The info on the right is for the portal page you are viewing (view a different country to see what I mean). If you are visiting your own it may be similar. The people close to you list is for people from your country that live near you in the US (based on your local office filing at defined in the User Control Panel). You listed London in your profile however your should list your USCIS local office in the US if you want to list people that live near your address in the US.

[CountryBoy 0]

is there any way to search specific forums (not the entire board) and if so can you search that forum for posts made by members from a certain country?

You probably thought I forgot about this! Nope . I have now added this feature. I am thinking this is probably one of the most useful tools for all members (seriously). Now members can go find posts from people from their country not only in general but specifically tuned to the portion of the immigration journey they are at (example is to list topics from Brazil only made in the K1 Forum). It should make it easy for new members especially to find out a bunch of information on the step of the journey they are at.

Hopefully this turns out as good as I am hoping!

Thank you CountryBoy for the EXCELLENT idea!!

Example (Brazil Topics in the Working and Traveling Forum):

http://www.visajourney.com/portals/index.p...zil&ppage=5

Captain,

Glad I could be of help !!!

a few more questions that I have since this option is now available:

When I go to my portals page (philippines) then I use the drop down menu to choose Mylene's stage of the journey (Embassy), I show the last 5 new posts in that forum from of a total of 814 topics.

a.) is there anywhere that I can change my defaults to show like 25 threads per page instead of 5? (in the thread view my default is set to 40 .. and I wish I could set IT to 100, hehe)

b.) is there any way that I can search the 814 relevant topics for keywords? an example could be; japanese police clearance .. it may take alot of wading thru posts to find a relevant topic at 5 per page but I'm sure there are several somewhere within those 814 posts, searching the country specific, forum specific results would yield them without the wading.

I know I always ask alot, but if it makes it easier on the front end then I am all for it...

Thanks again Captain,

CB

[Dan&Tiffany 0]

is there any way to search specific forums (not the entire board) and if so can you search that forum for posts made by members from a certain country?

You probably thought I forgot about this! Nope . I have now added this feature. I am thinking this is probably one of the most useful tools for all members (seriously). Now members can go find posts from people from their country not only in general but specifically tuned to the portion of the immigration journey they are at (example is to list topics from Brazil only made in the K1 Forum). It should make it easy for new members especially to find out a bunch of information on the step of the journey they are at.

Hopefully this turns out as good as I am hoping!

Thank you CountryBoy for the EXCELLENT idea!!

Example (Brazil Topics in the Working and Traveling Forum):

http://www.visajourney.com/portals/index.p...zil&ppage=5

Captain,

Glad I could be of help !!!

a few more questions that I have since this option is now available:

When I go to my portals page (philippines) then I use the drop down menu to choose Mylene's stage of the journey (Embassy), I show the last 5 new posts in that forum from of a total of 814 topics.

a.) is there anywhere that I can change my defaults to show like 25 threads per page instead of 5? (in the thread view my default is set to 40 .. and I wish I could set IT to 100, hehe)

b.) is there any way that I can search the 814 relevant topics for keywords? an example could be; japanese police clearance .. it may take alot of wading thru posts to find a relevant topic at 5 per page but I'm sure there are several somewhere within those 814 posts, searching the country specific, forum specific results would yield them without the wading.

I know I always ask alot, but if it makes it easier on the front end then I am all for it...

Thanks again Captain,

CB

I did get it to show 10 instead of 5 posts. The link above the posts says 'show more' or 'show less' depending on how you've got it set. Realize it's not much more, but a little better. I do LOVE this new feature!

[homesick_american 1]

The info on the left is for your country. The info on the right is for the portal page you are viewing (view a different country to see what I mean). If you are visiting your own it may be similar. The people close to you list is for people from your country that live near you in the US (based on your local office filing at defined in the User Control Panel). You listed London in your profile however your should list your USCIS local office in the US if you want to list people that live near your address in the US.

London's in my profile because that's where the visa was processed.

My location is the UK and my husband is British, so I guess that's why I get the double dose of UK. It's not entirely obvious; I used to QA websites for Fortune 500 companies and I wouldn't have passed it for that reason and for the strange image underneath the 'Welcome back' message. What's the point of that? My username is too long to be wedged in there and I'm guessing many other peoples' are as well.

[Mags 112]

Well, I think it looks mighty fine!

[elmcitymaven 9,712]

One little problem on the UK portal -- If you click the link for UK DCF Timelines (left hand side, under "VJ United Kingdom Timelines") it redirects you to China DCFers. Interesting data, but not relevant to us UK people!

Can you point this to the correct page? I noticed that the K1, K3 and IR1/CR1 links all point correctly -- I will assume this is not discrimination against us DCF folk!

[CountryBoy 0]

BUMP

a few more questions that I have since this option is now available:

When I go to my portals page (philippines) then I use the drop down menu to choose Mylene's stage of the journey (Embassy), I show the last 5 new posts in that forum from of a total of 814 topics.

a.) is there anywhere that I can change my defaults to show like 25 threads per page instead of 5? (in the thread view my default is set to 40 .. and I wish I could set IT to 100, hehe)

b.) is there any way that I can search the 814 relevant topics for keywords? an example could be; japanese police clearance .. it may take alot of wading thru posts to find a relevant topic at 5 per page but I'm sure there are several somewhere within those 814 posts, searching the country specific, forum specific results would yield them without the wading.

never answered / thanks

[Captain Ewok 1,891]

BUMP

a few more questions that I have since this option is now available:

When I go to my portals page (philippines) then I use the drop down menu to choose Mylene's stage of the journey (Embassy), I show the last 5 new posts in that forum from of a total of 814 topics.

a.) is there anywhere that I can change my defaults to show like 25 threads per page instead of 5? (in the thread view my default is set to 40 .. and I wish I could set IT to 100, hehe)

b.) is there any way that I can search the 814 relevant topics for keywords? an example could be; japanese police clearance .. it may take alot of wading thru posts to find a relevant topic at 5 per page but I'm sure there are several somewhere within those 814 posts, searching the country specific, forum specific results would yield them without the wading.

never answered / thanks

I will see about adding more topics viewed at once and also a search tool .

[Captain Ewok 1,891]

You can now view 5, 10 or 20 at once.

[Sheriff Uling 3]

You can now view 5, 10 or 20 at once.

Thanks Capt... I always know when you institute an update because I have to log back in... It's all about figuring out what you updated after that... I'm just letting you in on my trade secrets... Hehehehe!!!

[elmcitymaven 9,712]

UK DCF bug is still there... Also, now when I click to the next page through the UK Portal, or increase the number of threads shown, it automatically defaults to K1 posts only. If I try to amend it to show "All" posts I cannot for the life of me make this work! It keeps going to K1.

Any chance of this getting fixed?

[Captain Ewok 1,891]

All the bugs you mentioned should be fixed now . Let me know if you see them or anything else.

[elmcitymaven 9,712]

Perfect-o! Thanks, Captain.