Help files

[Amacythe]

How about some detailed help files about the options on the board?

I for one was too naive to click the "dump database" in my admin cp.  I was afraid it would "dump" the database not download, but throw it away.

[Jeff Lewis]

Heh, yeah you think they would have choosen a different word than "dump". I remember seeing that in phpmyadmin for the first time

[PeterL]

How about some detailed help files about the options on the board?

Yeah I agree... I'm a newbie as well and just too chicken to change much.

As I understand it, this is coming, but since this IS a beta version, we have to be patient.

Unknown installed mine and its worked flawlessly ever since, so, I cannot complain. But then my board only has about 30 users. There ARE folks here running the beta version with hundreds of users and callers. So, there is a lot of confidence in this software.

I'm looking forward to when there's a detailed help file that I can print out and put on my shelf. I've gotten pretty good results here asking questions, but its not the same. I like to step my way through a procedure..

[Killer Possum]

"Dump" means backup?? Wow you learn something every day, I too thought it ment to delete the database

[Gobalopper]

It is called backup database now, it goes something like this:

Forum Maintenance - Backup Database
-Save the table structure.
-Save the table data. (the important stuff.)
-Compress the file with gzip.
Download

[Amacythe]

Excuse me, but the question wasn't about database dump.  That was merely an example.  My question is about detailed help files; will there be detailed help files for SMF?

[Gobalopper]

That was just an example of one of the changes. In general help has been improved and still is being improved.

[Amacythe]

Good to hear.  Thanks