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Update on the old forum archive

Hi all

I have some news regarding the archive of the old posts in the previous forum (powered by Fusetalk)

The Fusetalk software will finally go offline permanently by the end of January 2020 meaning that it will no longer be available or searchable. As we’ve said previously the software is no longer supported and now poses a serious cybersecurity concern.

There will be a short length of time where discussions within the old forum will not be available while an archive is being prepared. We suggest if there are any discussions you wish to keep for reference, that you save a copy of it before the end of January.

It has also been requested that we only archive the conversations posted on the old forum since the release of the 18th Edition Wiring regs (i.e. from July/August 2018) so that out-of-date regs information is not made available. So again, if there are any past conversations that you wish to keep a copy of then we’d recommend that you do so before the end of January.

Any questions please ask or email us at community-online@theiet.org

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0 Lisa Miles over 5 years ago

davidwalker2:

There are some conversations that I would like to keep copies of. Is there a means of copying entries, or are we left to our own devices?

Hi David

There is an easy way of keeping a copy of a topic thread. If you visit the old forum and open up a topic, under 'Topic Tools' in the top section you'll find an item in the pop up menu of 'Print this Topic'. Selecting that will open a pop up window where the full topic along with the replies are displayed. At the top of that window you'll see another 'Print this topic' link which will open up your printing options. From there you can either print a hard copy to your printer or chose to save as a PDF file.

For everyone - our IT team have downloaded the content database for the old forum so we do have it for safekeeping. We are able to query the database (it's huge as you can imagine) to extract specific data if required, for example all content posted by a specific individual.

We have done a quick extract of the top 100 topics (by page views) and our Marketing team are looking at ways to re-purpose that content so that it retains its value.

Whether or not we are able to present the content of the database in a viewable and searchable format for the public still needs to be decided upon as Amanda says above. ?
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0 Lisa Miles over 5 years ago

davidwalker2:

There are some conversations that I would like to keep copies of. Is there a means of copying entries, or are we left to our own devices?

Hi David

There is an easy way of keeping a copy of a topic thread. If you visit the old forum and open up a topic, under 'Topic Tools' in the top section you'll find an item in the pop up menu of 'Print this Topic'. Selecting that will open a pop up window where the full topic along with the replies are displayed. At the top of that window you'll see another 'Print this topic' link which will open up your printing options. From there you can either print a hard copy to your printer or chose to save as a PDF file.

For everyone - our IT team have downloaded the content database for the old forum so we do have it for safekeeping. We are able to query the database (it's huge as you can imagine) to extract specific data if required, for example all content posted by a specific individual.

We have done a quick extract of the top 100 topics (by page views) and our Marketing team are looking at ways to re-purpose that content so that it retains its value.

Whether or not we are able to present the content of the database in a viewable and searchable format for the public still needs to be decided upon as Amanda says above. ?
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