Corporate Members Forum Help Page
Welcome to the RRDi Forum Help Page.
If you are new to our forum this page will give you a tutorial and help solve most problems you may be experiencing. It should take you about 15 minutes to go through this tutorial.
1. If you haven't registered, click on the JOIN link (or in the left menu). Follow the instructions and jot down your user id and password you create and keep it in a place you can remember.
2. Are you able to log into the forum? Click on MEMBERS (or in the left menu). The MEMBERS link goes to the RRDi forum for those who have already registered as a corporate member. Or you can access the forum at this url >
http://www.members.irosacea.org
You will see the following log in boxes near the top right:
The box to the left is your user id box and the box to the right is your password box. Click GO when you enter your user id and password. Or you may see the log in link at the top middle of the page:
You can click on LOG IN to go to another log in page or REGISTER if you haven't joined.
Enter your user id and password. It is a good idea to be able to easily log in again to check the box below next to the log in and password box (just to the right of the log in):
If you didn't jot down your user id, email administration to retrieve your user id. Tell us who you are and the email you used to join the forum.
If you know your email address you used to join and remember your user id but forgot your password, click below:
Follow the instructions at the above link to retrieve your password. If you can't access the forum, please email administration and explain what happened.
If you can access the forum you will see the following page:
Look for the the third item menu in the above page which says, "Ask the MAC." See below:
MAC members will see the Private Forum at the bottom (if your scroll down) to post to their professional peers on the MAC. Corporate members will only see the Public Forum - Corporate members. See below:
The public ASK THE MAC forum is the third forum just under Members Forum - Rosacea Topics and just above Ask the Board. Click on Ask the MAC >
You will then see the following page below:
The Ask the MAC forum has one SUBFORUM called Meet the MAC Members which is near the top. Click on Meet the MAC Members. You should see the following page:
If you note at the top, you will see a menu that shows where you are in the forum:
The above menu shows at the far right that you are in the forum:
Meet the MAC Members
However, you can click on RRDi at the far left and it brings you back to the main page.
You will see above the pinned topics of some of the professionals in the ASK THE MAC forum, giving an introductory post. If you click on Ask the MAC in the above menu, you will return to the Ask the Mac forum with the subforum, Meet the MAC Members and below this subforum are a number of topics that have been posted by corporate members.
Any member may post an introductory post, or anyone can post a question or a comment by clicking on NEW TOPIC near the top right. Look for this button:
Click on NEW TOPIC and post your question or comment.
3. What if I want to REPLY to a topic already posted?
ANSWER:
Let's go throught the steps. In the ASK THE MAC forum, if you click on the Subforum, Meet the MAC Members you will find the following topic at near the top:
Click on Pinnded: INTRODUCTION - ROBERT T. BRODELL, M.D. (the second pinned topic)
You will then be taken to this page >
You will see above Dr. Brodell's introductory post and a reply under it from Jenny. If you scroll down you will see more posts. If you would like to post to this topic you can click on ADD REPLY at the top (which will add your reply to the current topic which is Dr. Brodell's introductory post) or NEW TOPIC which will start a whole new topic in the ASK THE MAC forum. Be sure to add a SUBJECT in the subject box.
BELOW each post you will see the following buttons:
If you click on the QUOTE button your reply to that post will include a quote from the original poster. If you click on REPLY it will simply add your reply quoting the original post because the + sign is set by default to quote the poster. Let's click on the REPLY button and note what happens when you see this page:
The quote is at the top of the MESSAGE box and reads as follows:
[quote name='rbrodell' date='Jun 16 2006, 05:53 AM' post='91']
Another new member of the advisory board...Robert T. Brodell, M.D. I am in the private practice of Dermatology and Dermatopathology in Warren, Ohio, and serve on the volunteer faculty of Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. I also serve on the committee that produces the AAD on-line rosacea website (rosacea-Net Workgroup) and serve as a director of the American Board of Dermatology. Looking forward to lending a hand!
[/quote]
You may type your message in the message box either BEFORE the first BRACKET or AFTER the last BRACKET. How does this work?
Go back to Dr. Brodell's original introductory post by clicking on the Robert T. Brodell, M.D. menu which is at the far right as seen below.
Find it on your browswer and click on Robert T. Brodell, M.D. and note how you return to Dr. Brodell's original post. Scroll down till you see Jenny Nairn's post which looks like this:
In the above post, Jenny replied to Dr. Brodell's initial post without QUOTING Dr. Brodell. How did Jenny do this? See the two buttons on the far right called + Quote and "Reply ? You will see these two buttons on the bottom of every post:
If you click on the left button [+ Quote ] it changes it to this:
Jenny first clicked on the [+ Quote] button then clicked on the [" Reply] button and got a page that looks like this:
In above post there is not quote box of the original post by Dr. Brodell.
Now let's look at a post that includes the original post using the quote feature. If you go back to the orginal post by Dr. Brodell and scroll down to rosacea2006 [display name] who signed her post 'Anne' you will see the post if you click on it and should see this post:
At the top of Anne's post there is a box that includes the orginal post by Dr. Brodel.
So when you want to reply to any post, just go to the bottom of the post and look for these buttons on the right:
Click on the [" REPLY] button and you will get this blank message to use to post with:
If the quote from the orginal post is still in the message box you can simply select all the text and remove it and begin with a blank message box like the above box.
If you want the original quote in your message you can type either BEFORE the message or AFTER the message and the orginal quote remains in a box either above or below your post.
Type in your message and then click on the [ADD REPLY] button on the bottom (see the button above) or look for this button near the bottom of the message box you typed in:
If you still need help, there is a special page for FAQs and other helpful advice by clicking on the HELP button near the top right. Look for HELP between the RRDi Home and Search:
Or you may SEARCH for a topic or ask your question by clicking on the SEARCH button.
FOR MAC MEMBERS:
There is a SPECIAL PRIVATE forum for members of the Medical Advisory Committee. This special private forum is for MAC members (and board of directors) is to be able to use as a private conference between members of the MAC only. This can be found by scrolling down to the bottom until you see this:
Click on Medical Advisory Committee Private Forum to post or view.
FOR GRANT WRITERS:
There is a SPECIAL PRIVATE forum for members of the volunteer GRANT WRITERS. This special private forum is for GRANT WRITERS (and board of directors) is to be able to use as a private conference between GRANT WRITERS only. This can be found by scrolling down to the bottom until you see this:
Click on GRANT WRITERS PRIVATE FORUM to view or post.