[GUIDE] How to Post a Question & Create a Screencast!

[Beyondforce]

Hi Guys,

Please watch this video, it is very important to know how to post a question in an effective way, so you could get the best answer and as quickly as possible!

Cheers / Ben
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[jeff_strater]

very nice, @Beyondforce , thanks for putting that together.  Helpful to all of us who want to help all of you!

[brianrepp]

This is great, Ben!  Pinned!

[HughesTooling]

Don't have time to watch through but have you also shown how to use the photo option to embed pictures? Always a pain to try and help someone when they attach 3 or 4 pictures rather then embed.

Thanks Mark

[Beyondforce]

Hi @HughesTooling,
No, I forgot - I thought if I could teach people how to record their screen with audio, then all the rest is irrelevant 😉

Cheers / Ben.

[HughesTooling]

Not really I still use pictures more than screencasts as it's often quicker and all that's needed.

Mark

[Beyondforce]

Well, if you don't mind making a quick step by step guide, I'm sure @brianrepp will help me to add it right under the video.
Don't you think it's a good idea?

[audaysami]

Very useful, thank you

[Anonymous]

very Nice, Thanks @Beyondforce 

[ritste20]

I've tried a couple times to post screencasts as solutions to forum questions and honestly, I think its kind of clunky. After uploading it takes a very long time for the screencast to register as being a "public" contribution even on my profile. And then it seems like it's a 50/50 shot whether the embed tool on the post page will accept it. I often get error messages saying that there is invalid HTML code in my post and the screencast is deleted from the post.

Am I doing something wrong or does this functionality just have a lot of bugs that are still being worked out?

Steve

[g-andresen]

Hi Steve,

since more than 1 year I'm inserting screencast via a separate link because the embed option does not work.

@jeff_strater  Is an improvement to be expected at some point?

günther

[ritste20]

@g-andresen 

Thanks for the reply. That makes me feel better that I'm not the only one having issues with this.

Steve

[TrippyLighting]

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@g-andresen wrote:

...because the embed option does not work...

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I've used the "embed" option for the last 400-500 screencasts without a problem.

However, just to avoid some confusion, here is what I mean with that:

1. I get the email informing me that my screencast is ready and follow the link to it by clicking on it.

2. That brings me to the page with the screencast  where I click on the "embed" option

While will open a pop-up window tithe the HTML code to be copied:

3. I'll highlight that text and copy it to the clipbord and go back to my post:

4. I'll click on the HTML button and a pop-up window will be presented. This contains the post so far in HTML code. I paste the text from the clipboard into that window and then accept with OK, which brings me back to the post, which I can now continue to write and post.

This has yet to fail me a single time.

this also allows users to edit posts and add screencasts to an existing post.

 

[ritste20]

Thank you @TrippyLighting . I will try that next time. I appreciate the workaround but it would be nice if Autodesk could fix the "automated" insertion portion of the add post workflow or just remove it.

Steve

[ritste20]

@TrippyLighting It still doesn't seem to like what I'm doing. Hopefully it'll let me embed the screenshots but I followed your process and the edit post window still tells me that invalid HTML was found in the message body and removed.

  

[g-andresen]

Hi Peter

I am glad that you have no problems with embedding screencasts.

I have received answers like this before, I believe from you as well. Unfortunately this does not change the facts.

I also don't want to refer to earlier contributions again and again. But I would like to repeat today that I have no problems with attaching a link.

By the way, even AD employees were not able to embed screencast from my account.

günther

[TheCADWhisperer]

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@TrippyLighting wrote:

I've used the "embed" option for the last 400-500 screencasts without a problem.

This has yet to fail me a single time.

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I have experienced significant issues trying to include screencasts within my responses.

Most of the time it works fine (using a variety of techniques), but maybe 5-10% (WAG) it doesn't work.

Issues seem to appear and then disappear.  (There have been periods of time where it absolutely no technique worked - instead I would just include link.)

The Fusion Forums are very different than say AutoCAD or Inventor forums, where I might have trouble on Fusion and not AutoCAD/Inventor or the other way around.

[Anonymous]

When I tried downloading Screencast to my company's computer,, I got the message that "Autodesk Screencast can't be downloaded securely"

What now?

[Anonymous]

really great video

[CGBenner]

Hey everyone!

First let me agree with the concensus on the original post... great work @Beyondforce !

For those with issues related to Screencast... there IS a Screencast forum where you can post your questions and concerns, and they are more likely to be seen by the right people.

And, when things are not qute going right in the forums in general (never happens... right?)... post your concerns in the Community Feedback forum so that, again,... the right people will see it.

I'm not saying that you can't discuss it here, I would never discourage a good conversation.  I just wanted you all to be aware of these other resources.  Happy chatting!