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Add Model Years to the Forum for Current, Model, Classic
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Add Model Years to the Forum for Current, Model, Classic
I've noticed many users posting questions in the forum that is not for their Model, I would like to suggest that next to the Forum Model the year range is added to improve the user experience and not have to Move so many threads. In the XF Forums the X260 Forum has many posts that should be in the X250 Forum. For example, If X260 would show as X260 (2016 - current) and X250 as X250 (2007-2015) this would help everyone.
Ex. this one just posted today in X260 and should be in the X250 Forum - X260 Forum
Thanks
Last edited by JagWire_5280; 09-09-2019 at 02:41 PM.
I see, thanks, what I normally do though is hover over the Forums and then select X260 and on the 'dropdown' it doesn't show, so I think this is why a lot of people post in the wrong Forum, can the model years be added here, in the Drop-down ? People know they have an XF but probably not an X250 or X260 by just looking at the drop-down choices. I see once in the Forum it also says the model year at the top but it is easy to miss.
Last edited by JagWire_5280; 09-09-2019 at 06:59 PM.
The navigation menu in your screen capture is dynamically created by coding that grabs the forum data from the database. This means it's not manually coded. So to manually code it would create issues. If the descriptions were added, which is where you see the model year listings, some forum descriptions are too long and would not work. For example, this Help section's "Need help with Jaguar Forums? Ask here! Have a suggestion to help improve Jaguar Forums? Tell us here....THIS SECTION IS NOT FOR TECHNICAL QUESTIONS" would not work.
Your concern and comment is understood and not trying to dismiss. I'm just not sure how it could be easily done to work due to the above. If the model year were part of the forum name, that would work but then could create some other issues.
Originally Posted by JagWire_5280
I see, thanks, what I normally do though is hover over the Forums and then select X260 and on the 'dropdown' it doesn't show, so I think this is why a lot of people post in the wrong Forum, can the model years be added here, in the Drop-down ? People know they have an XF but probably not an X250 or X260 by just looking at the drop-down choices. I see once in the Forum it also says the model year at the top but it is easy to miss.
I see, thanks, what I normally do though is hover over the Forums and then select X260 and on the 'dropdown' it doesn't show, so I think this is why a lot of people post in the wrong Forum .....
The problem is newbies simply see XF and post in the first one they come to. This is the X260 forum in Jaguar Models (Current) and consequently we get questions on the earlier 2007-2015 X250 appearing there. It's nowhere near as much of a problem as XJ6 which covers four entirely different models produced between 1968 and 2009 and misplaced posts are frequent.
We have a number of members with other models who report misplaced posts if moderators have not already spotted and moved them. It would ve very helpful if you would consider doing the same.
09-09-2019, 02:36 PM
Add Model Years to the Forum for Current, Model, Classic
