New Mission Available: SAP Community Beta Tester
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SAP Community Beta is now open to all the community members! We strongly encourage you to explore all the features and functionalities of the new platform, and request that you report any bugs or issues. To learn how to submit feedback, read SCN Beta Feedback Process.
To encourage testing in SAP Community Beta, the SCN Gamification Core team is happy to announce a new mission. You can earn the badge shown here and gain 5 points.
Complete Sequentially:
- Read and bookmark this blog
- Explore SAP Community Beta
- Complete any of the SAP Community Beta Missions
- Take screenshot from your Former Member or Notifications AFTER the badges from your completed SAP Community Beta Missions are visible
- Share your experiences and submit your screenshot as comments here (please post at the end) – only valuable contributions count!
- If you find any bugs or issues, report them by starting a discussion in the SCN Open Beta space
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Please note: There may be a delay before the Beta Mission badges show up on your Universal Profile once you complete a Beta mission. Please be patient with the beta site. Also, kindly allow a few days for the SAP Community Beta Tester badge to show up on your current SCN profile as this is not be an automatic mission.
More Information: To learn more about the exciting changes that the SCN Reputation Program is going through as we transition into the new community, read Caroleigh Deneen’s Reputation Program Reloaded and A Glimpse Ahead: New Community, New Missions.
Video Instructions: Tip in a Minute: How to Earn the SAP Community Beta Tester Badge
Happy Testing!
SCN Gamification Core Team
-As mentioned by Sebastian Schrock , the profile picture can't be (re-)sized or moved. i've had some trouble positioning it like it is now.
+State of the art design,
+clearly arranged UI.
The new UI is awesome! Simple, clean and friendly.
Q&A is way much better and easier to find the relevant content. It's very similar to Stack Exchange, what's good stuff!
Few problems I've seen:
Things I liked :-
-New layout of the community
-Easy to categorize topics and navigate to the site.
-Efficient way of searching all the discussions and documents.
-The way notifications are provided .
-Profile page.
-Universal Profile.
I thinks ok now.
Sajid Amir,
Please find below snap from my profile. Please add a beta to my profile. 🙂
Thanks
Ritesh
Hi Sajid,
great work, looking forward to see it live. However it would great to have a special app for iOS/Android to consume the new space on mobile devices, too.
Best regards
Tilmann
I like the fresh look&feel, the blog and the tag-oriented classification.
However, it's a lot different from scn as we know it and then it needs time to get comfortable with it.
Franz
Best part of the new version is less clutter and clean look. The amount of text one gets to view on landing page is overwhelming.
The new version is easy to user and navigate for first timers.
The Beta version is user friendly and easy to accessible.
The bug is Beta missions are not directly visible; we need to search for those missions manually.
The advantages are like below:
The company and location information, languages and elsewhere options are very good.
In the home page we have the option of all the documents and blogs.
The network details are giving in detailed.
overall The Beta version is very good to access.
Easy to create your profile, It will be great if you can see your activities, points and reputation. I do not see that is available for me.
Things I like:
- Profile Page
- Overall look & feel
- New blogging platform & searching for question can post new question immediately
- Smart search when publishing question (shows existing questions as suggestions
- Not so cluttered looking like old SCN blogs
Things I want to see:
- More intuitive "Action" button
- "Share" option for content on blog feed
- Favourite blogs and able to categorize them
Avinash Venkateshaiah and Jagdeep Singh Choudhary
I am afraid the snapshots you posted are incorrect. Please read the rules carefully!
This Beta space is quite responsive but i feel the comment button placed in blogs could be better placed.
i feel some hardship in finding the blog i searched for .so i think search can be improved.
Great Blog Sajid
Thank you Mr. Lakshmipathi!
What I liked:
The new style.
What I dislike:
I had some problem with the authorization when I tried to write a blog post ( You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page. )
When I receive a dricet message I have to click to the name of the sender to see the message.
SSO Authentication 🙂
This is a feedback for whatever I explored till now..
1. Very good UI
2. Simple, plain,classy designs
But I faced issue with uploading the details in 'elsewhere' tab of the profile.
I tried to update my linkedin public profile URL, but it says 'Invalid URL' though the URL is correct (I verified).
Just check this issue once.
It's very fun exploring it. Great Work!!
Will let you know, if I face any issues again.
It was interesting walking though the Beta site. I have a couple of concerns, though.
1. It was VERY difficult to find the correct link to ask a question. I tried several things before I though to click on my avatar to find it. This is not really an obvious location for me. I would expect it to be a link on the Questions & Answers page or on the various product/industry/etc. pages.
2. I'm willing to give the whole tagging system a try, but I'm concerned that it might make it more difficult for those of us who answer questions to find questions to answer. I wouldn't filter out unanswered questions because sometimes the answer that was given is either not correct or only partially correct.
One other thought:
It would be great if there were "follow" buttons for the various products/industries/etc. This might help alleviate the concern I expressed in #2 above.
-Dell
The look and feel is state of the art. I like the clear structure and the colors. Navigation Perfromance could be improved. But nevertheless i enjoyed the new experience. Thanks!
Hello Sajid,
Things I like:
- WordPress for blog authoring;
- Q/A replacing the old forum/thread style is really the way to go nowadays - stackoverflow 😉
Things I dislike:
- Tags are not intuitive or easy to find;
- Link between tags and languages;
Regards,
JN
My snapshot
Things I like are:
- Learn from the needs of others
- Share knowledge with other community members
Things I would like to see:
- More people sharing their experiences and knowledge
- Increased participation of members in community course
- More content in Portuguese
One thing for the wish-list.... An easier way to insert images - directly from the clipboard - instead of having to save it first.
I had also done the things required for my second badge on the first day - answering questions and commenting - but none of those appeared in my activity list, did anything for "reputation" or seems to have stayed against those posts. It could be user error, but if it is, it seems like something on the UI needs to be made a little more intuitive. Sorry, I know that this seems like a rant with very little hard information to go on. If I see this behavior again, I will try to replicate and report a bug.
Having played around a little more, the activity stream is very, veeerrrry slow to load for me. If it makes any difference, I am on a Mac OS X using the Chrome browser.
Mine is looking like this with no badge or Content List. The new SCN Beta may be should have some tools where if someone is trying to post a new Discussion which is already existing will get immediate links to the similar content threads as notifications/alert.
Hello Kaushik Debnath, I am afraid the snapshot you posted is incorrect. Please read the rules carefully.
But I also tried other options like creating blog through the New Beta & it gives as following
Please help me understand, if I am doing any mistake here? I am trying to create a blog through the New SCN Beta
Hi Sajid,
I believe in the
List of SAP Community BETA Missions, I do qualify for the 1st 2 Missions, "First Steps" & "On a Roll". Please update me if I am missing any point in the missions.
Hello Kaushik Debnath I just tried to replicate the bug you pointed out. However, I am able to create a blog post without any issues. Could you please try to replicate the same issue and see if the problem persists? Please make sure that you are logged on by clicking the small people avatar on the top right corner of the universal header before you attempt to create any content or test any functionality of the new platform.
Also please allow some time for the Beta mission badges to show up on your Universal Profile after you have completed the requirements. I just checked your universal profile and you have the First Steps badge. If you have completed the requirements for On a Roll as well, it should also show up in some time. You can also view your earned missions through Notifications. And given you have the First Steps badge, I will include you in the SAP Community Beta Tester achievers list. You will have that badge within the next couple of days as well. If you have further questions please let me know.
Sajid Amir So, now ultimately my profile looks like,
Thanks Sajid Amir for spending time on my profile matter & providing the required assistance on the bug-fix matter.
With Regards,
Kaushik
Hi Sajid Amir,
Hope doing well. I can now-a-days feel the migration to the new portal happening like others. Say like now if we put a keyword to search in the existing SCN, it also takes to the SCN beta search portal view. Anyways its been a long time that I can see the other persons are rewarded for the beta-testing earlier than me who tried the beta after me, but for my case still can not see the badge as you promised!! I am also eager to know if you would publish a list of the SCN Beta testers name anywhere.I like the clean view looks but the existing is having all the detailed view. I can understand that the new one also would have areas like that but in links. Interested to know if video streaming features are included in the New SCN Beta or not as say if someone is posting a document with a youtube.com link or any other site containing that video for any topic demonstration.
Hi Sajid,
I have attached my profile screenshot with reputation Badge.
Thanks,
Syam
Hi,
I really like the new platform, it is clean design, easy-to-use, modern looking.
Also the performance is better than the old SCN.
I am a little bit mixed up how can I find the tags I moderate and exactly how can I do that. It is too much hidden and not easy to find. This should be improved.
Thanks,
Gabor
great work and good UI.
The initative is very good. I can see the UI is very attractive as compared to the current SCN community.
The only concern I found was:
- It is very difficult to find the respective community out of the list. I was searching for SAP BusinessObjects WebIntelligence community and I was not able to find it
- Performance wise also the site is very slow, you have to be patient to get to the next screen
- For some pages like Q&A space, I was constantly getting "Page not found" for which i also made a discussion
- Choosing a Primary tag for starting a discussion is also difficult and it wont allow you to choose appropriate tags. Finally I ended up choosing a random tag just to post my query
- Also I liked the functionality which current SCN provides, when you place the cusor on someones name you get some details about that person. Which I didnt find in the Beta version. Hopefully we can see that feature in the new SCN community
Hellow Team,
Its really nice to meet you all at one community
Regards,
Ravi kumar
It would be also very helpful, if the migration of articles/documents would be done more smooth. It's a pain to migrate these documents as all grafics all formatting needs to be done manulally. Eevn wehen using the copy-and-paste of the HTML edit mask the formating in the new SCN is not the same and looks no that good.
What I like is the concept of wiki pages. This gives documents a better dynamic.
Unfortunately in my case I need to wait till a wiki "space" gets created so I could move my created wiki pages to the target one.
Hi Sajid,
Here is mine
Posted feedback here: SCN Beta - my two cents..
Areas of Expertise and Badges are missing.
What I like:
What I miss/do not like so much:
Best Regards,
Florian
Hi Sajid,
Please find below the snapshot of my profile, the reputation have been received as notification, but the badge " First step" are not shown in my profile page.
Feed back : The new look and feel is really good.
Regards
Srinivas
Hello Sajid,
very nice and friendly UI
Hi Vadym,
Thanks for Testing!
Perhaps you can also elaborate what you like and what you'd like see to improve as in the mission description of the Beta Tester Badge (this blog) is defined. 😉
Cheers,
Ervin
Regards,
Gaurav
Hi Gaurav,
Thanks for sharing the snapshot of your profile, You can also share your feedback to our new community as well as your experience with it.
It will helps to sap for making it better & more user friendly!!
Hi Ankur,
UI is good but there is one bug fix required it seems... while opening beta page using referred URL, getting different profile image of referred guy. Pls check.
Things I dislike:
-Social/Twitter Orientation
-Models on the background images
-Same facebook icons for Like option
-Chat
Things I like:
-Colors
-Big Fonts
-Search Discussions Engine
-Hide and Fast Navigation Bar
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Things I would like to see:
-Free Classroom or Learn How To sections
-Experience sections with company histories
-SAP Modules subdivision
-Efficient Authentication process
It's only my point of view , nothing more... Hope to help
Bye
I think it will be very useful to have a preview of the users on mouseover.
I don't like so much the fact that to see the full content of pages you have to click to navigate further.
There is no leaderboard in the pages (or... for tags?). Not clear if tags or pages are replacing the spaces of the old scn.
Not easy to filter based on tags and is not easy to discriminate between questions and blogs.
User experience is one of the key factor for any application. New home is having self explanatory and delightful UX for community users. Great job!
Excellent look and feel, Comfortable hovering over side by side, I did the camparison between older version and new ..BIG Change
I used it on Chrome browser and IE browser, Both looks great. I prefer IE, look and feel better over chrome. usability, very user friendly.
Where is Crystal Reports from trial/downloads?
What I lIke:
What I do not like/miss/confuses me/would have on my wish list:
If this feature would be lost, that would really be a pitty
Bottom line: I think the new community has definitlly the potential to bring the SAP community one step forward, but as far as I could state, it is still early beta. There are several hickups and gaps that have to be closed before it can be used in a productive manner.
Hello Christian,
Thank you so much for your detailed feedback. I am afraid the bookmark content option will not be available on the new platform. However, you may try to follow that piece of content to get relevant updates regarding it on your Activity Stream. And for quick navigation to blogs of your interest, you may have to depend on your browser bookmark option for the time being (you can also access content from Activity Stream).
We are working on some of the features you talk about here that will be available post Go-Live. You can read more about these upcoming features here in Future Feature | SCN.
I believe the ability to see the list of content/people/tags one is following will help satisfy one of the requirement you mention here. In addition, more customization and filtering options for the Activity Stream are also on the road-map.
As for accessing the DM service, I personally thought that having it in the Universal Header actually helped it get more visibility and easy accessibility. Could you kindly share some more thoughts regarding that?
Thanks!
Mor Thiam, Naveen Inuganti
Arsalan Siddiqui, and Misha Raina, please read the rules carefully. The snapshots you posted are incorrect!
Hi Sajid Amir ,
Here is Snapshot of my Beta Universal Profile
Liked the landing page and new Blogging platform of Beta version.
Kindly upload my badge. Till then I keep exploring this new version 🙂
Thanks & Regards,
Harkirat Kaur
@Sajid Amir, Kindly upload my badge.
Shared my Snapshot of Universal Beta profile on Sep 16, 2016 11:09 AM
Regards,
Latest badges uploaded! Thanks for feedback and testing the new platform everyone!
Hi Naveen,
You didnt want to share the experience of our new community here,....
So that SAP can make it better as per our recommendation & evaluate the best part of new community,..