Welcome to Wiki Articles!

User Generated Articles is a forum that allows community members to post information in an "article" format. Once created, articles can be edited and improved by other members of the community as well. This can have advantages over the standard post/reply style, as it provides a central space where crucial information can be presented in a learning format as opposed to a Q/A format, and the content can continually improve with time.

Adding New Articles
To add an article, just click on the "New Thread" button from within the User Generated Articles forum, enter the information you would like to provide, and press the "Submit New Article" button.

Editing Existing Articles
Below each article is a set of buttons that let you edit or view the history of changes to that article.

Discussing Articles
Each article also has a discusion associated with it. Click the "Post Reply" button to post messages in the standard post/reply format, in order to discuss the article with other users, ask questions, etc.

Alternative Documentation
We hope that this forum will help our users better learn about Flexsim and its functionality. While it won't replace the users manual, it can serve as a place to "fill in the gaps" where the users manual fails. Often times the best documentation is by our users, because they are the ones who have to go through the trips and stumbles of figuring out how to get Flexsim to work for their specific situation, while we at Flexsim document from a completely different perspective of "this is the way we designed it". So if there's some piece of functionality that you've wrestled with and finally gotten through all the roadblocks, please post an article explaining how to do it, so others don't have to go through the same pitfalls you did. If you see someone else's article and you have some wisdom to add to it that you think other users will find useful, edit their article and add your two cents. Note that we reserve the right to take such articles and merge them into our users manual, so please don't post material that is copyrighted or that you don't want us to distribute.

Moderators
Moderators, it is actually pretty easy to take an existing thread and change it into a wiki article. Just go to the thread and move it into the User Generated Articles forum. This will cause the first post in that thread to be changed into an article that can be edited and improved, with a history, etc, and the other posts in the thread become the discussion posts for that article. From that point, you can copy information from later posts in the thread up to the first post, and format the article as you like. It's probably best to keep the reply posts as they are so users can still see the discussion that generated the article. Also, you should probably put some type of explanation at the top like: This article was generated from a thread that was initially posted by ???. His question was: [ORIGINAL POST]. Then proceed to the article content. Of course, it is extra work to organize a thread into an article, but it can have huge advantages because users can get the information they need right at the top, instead of having to dig through all the posts. Also, moving the thread into an article is much easier than starting an article from scratch.