topic Re: Problem in Screen Cast viewing? in Screencast Forum

Problem in Screen Cast viewing?

firas007noori — Sat, 05 Nov 2016 12:08:55 GMT

Greeting,

I tried to upload a screen cast for Revit Architecture, titled "Parametric Table with Glass Panel in Revit Architecture" and I find it under my contribution but when I asked my students to find it by search for my name in Autodesk Knowledge Network, it does not show it!? it shows my old screen cast!?

Any one have any idea of how to fix this issue? or to give me an email to contact?

I do appreciate your help

Firas Noori

Re: Problem in Screen Cast viewing?

nguyenph88 — Mon, 07 Nov 2016 18:21:18 GMT

Hi Firas,

My apologies for the inconvenience that you had. If I understand your issue correctly, your students were trying to search for your name "Firas Noori" on knowledge.autodesk.com and the search yeilded no result. Since we do not support searching for user's name now so Autodesk Knowledge Network cannot return any results in this case.

I've tried to search for "Parametric Table" under "Revit Products" as below and your screencast was the top on the list. However, it was unclear to me that your old screencast was displayed instead. Can you please elaborate?

Also, please note that after the screencast was processed, it will take another 10-15 mins in order to be indexed to be searchable.

Please let me know if you have any other questions.

Thank you,

Peter Nguyen

Re: Problem in Screen Cast viewing?

firas007noori — Mon, 07 Nov 2016 19:16:25 GMT

Hi Peter Nguyen,

I thank you for your response.

The issue that if anyone search for my name in the autodesk knowledge network search engine , it will show only one of my works , not both , so if the search engine was not designed to reach author names then why it shows the first work of mine (Autocad one) and not the revit table ?

I am trying to upload as much as I can of my works to this website so I encourage my students to use autodesk knowledge network to learn from, and the process of searching by author name is having a great value for me as they will search for all my topics in cad , max or revit in the same place.

If there is any possibilty to update the website to include a search by author, that will be great 🙂

I do appreciate your help, Thank you

Firas Noori

Re: Problem in Screen Cast viewing?

nguyenph88 — Mon, 07 Nov 2016 19:46:17 GMT

Hi Firas,

Thanks for getting back. Now the issue becomes clearer to me. With your given scenario as below:

1. Go to knowledge.autodesk.com

2. Search for "Firas Noori"

There is only screencast in the search result list which is http://autode.sk/2eGbYNS . The reason why this screencast appears is because in the description field, you somehow mentioned your name "Cheers, Firas S. Noori" at the bottom. This string was picked up by the search engine when searching for "Firas Noori". The other screencast as you mentioned in the original topic was not included because there was no sign of similar text in any description field.

Also, thank for your great feedback about the search functionality. I will bring it up to another team so they will consider it later (that search availability/functionality is not a part of screencast team).

For now, 2 workarounds that I can think of for your students to search for all your screencasts AND contributions:

1. You can tag any of your contributions (screencast, articles etc.) with your name at the bottom, like a signature that you did. It will help ensure that contribution will be included in the search query. Can you try to include your name in the description of this screencast http://autode.sk/2faxtH4 to make sure this method work?

2. You can share your contribution link: https://knowledge.autodesk.com/profile/O37DF4A26CA13958 , please stay tuned as we are releasing another version of contribution and profile in a next few day.

Please let me know if you have any questions or other suggestions.

Thank you,

Peter Nguyen

Re: Problem in Screen Cast viewing?

firas007noori — Mon, 07 Nov 2016 20:06:44 GMT

Greeting,

I thank you, You just solve it...

I added my name "Firas S. Noori" as I did in the previous screen cast, and I did the search for "Firas Noori" it did show only one!! , but when I search for the exact signature " Firas S. Noori" it started to show both of my works!!

I thank you again for your valuable advice for me, problem solved thanks to you, and now I can tell my students to search for it 🙂

Best Regards,

Re: Problem in Screen Cast viewing?

wrighte — Tue, 15 Nov 2016 00:43:12 GMT

One other option is to have them search Google for 'Firas Noori Autodesk" (https://www.google.com/search?q=Firas+Noori+Autodesk&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8)

This brings up your Autodesk contributor profile with all screencasts listed. You can also further organize your Screencasts into collections within your profile if needed.

Re: Problem in Screen Cast viewing?

firas007noori — Tue, 15 Nov 2016 20:23:16 GMT

I do appreciate your help, many thank

Firas S Noori