ATLAS.ti Forum Quick Guide
Registration and Login
First and most importantly: you do not need to be registered and logged in to view the contents of all public forums! Simply clicking on forum.atlasti.com takes you to the forum overview page and lets you read and search all contributions.
Nonetheless, registration is required to
- post contributions,
- respond to contributions, and
- make use of numerous special features, such as
- subscribing to entire forums and/or individual threads
- viewing and searching other members' information,
- and more ***
Only NEW users need to register, i.e. register, if you haven't registered before. Normally, you register once and log in using your selected user data upon subsequent visits.
If you check the "Remember Me?" box (next to the login box), your login will be automatic and invisible, so you will never have to type in a password or user name again. Highly recommended! (NOTE: do NOT use the LOGOUT button when quitting, this will "un-remember" you and you'll have to manually login next time after all)
We recommed that you use either your full name (first name, last name), only your firstname, or your email address as your user name. This makes it slightly more difficult to forget your login name....
Of course, people do sometimes lose or forget their login names or passwords. Again, checking the the "Remember Me?" box keeps this from happening.
If you didn't select this option and don't have your password, simply follow the "Forgotten your password?" instructions (two clicks, and you'll be sent a working password).
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User Control Panel ('My Control Panel')
Set and control your personal data and your system preferences in the Control Panel ("My Control Panel" in the top menu).
Most importantly: You can completely ignore the Control Panel if you don't want to mess with a number of seemingly cryptic settings. All of its features and settings are optional, and you do not need to pay them any attention if you feel overwhelmed by all these questions, checkboxes, and input boxes.
Nonetheless, familarizing yourself with some of the features can be useful. Here are some of the ones you may want to take a look at:
- Editor Type: if you prefer the convenience of a full-fledged WYSIWYG-Editor (similar to your desktop word processor) for typing and editing your postings, or rather a simple textbox without any formatting capabilities instead, select it here.
- Customize the way in which threads and messages are displayed to you: linear or threaded, or in a variety of additional ways.
- Private Messaging features: The forum lets you communicate with other members "anonymously", i.e. without using "real-world" email addresses and without involving messages to your actual email account. This is highly useful and desirable to protect your privacy and to curb spamming! - Private Messaging can be turned on/off, and you can select how you would like to be notified of arriving messages.
Some Things You Can Do in the Forum...
...That You Couldn't Do in the Mailing List:
- Conduct Polls - let other users vote on the issue at hand
- Deep Search - search all contributions using detailed criteria
- View Other Users' Profiles - read and search other users' profiles, quickly find people with similar interests or other users near you
- Organize User and/or Project Groups
- Share Attachments - upload / download image files and/or documents in a variety of formats
- Accurately Determine Problematic Issues - ATLAS.ti staff can see which topics are the most read and thus determine where there might be a need for additional information and/or technical solutions
- and many more
