Cliffs Notes – End User SCN Functionality Compare

[Colleen]

Most of the regular users (I assume) will be looking for a quick reference guide as to what’s different between SCN and the new SCN (aka 1DX). In a similar approach to understanding Tags, I’ve tried to put together a summary and links to the various announcements. Again, I thought this might be an easy central place to validate our understandings. As well as this, I can imagine post-go live having these types of questions asked and perhaps a good input to FAQ

Document is open for anyone to add comments/edit

16/May – My Profile, Questions & Answers and a touched on a bit of Documents/Archive

16-May: Narrowed tables to fit into the old site style. /jim

Regards

Colleen

My Profile/Account Overview

1dX URL: http://people.sap.com

Item	SCN	1Dx
What is my User Id?	You currently login with your S Number, P number or email	Same logon as SCN (authenticated against accounts.sap.com)
Where can I see account age/member since?	Via profile (privacy settings can hide from other users)	Overview of account page under your name
Where can I see my SCN Id?	Via your profile > Bio > expand out details near your name	manage Username and User Id will appear
Where can I see last logged on date?	Via profile (privacy settings can hide from other users)	Unable to see – confirm with 1DX team
Where can I change my password?	Via your profile > Bio > Actions > Change password	manage > Password > Edit
Can I change my email?	Redirects to https://accounts.sap.com/ui/protected/profilemanagement	No change
What is the URL for my account?	Scn.sap.com/people/<user id>	https://people.sap.com/ or https://people.sap.com/<userId>
Where do I see my content (blogs, documents, questions)	Your account > Content Tab and filter for type	https://people.sap.com/ under My content
Where can I set my privacy settings?	Under your account > Edit Profile & Privacy	Unable to see – confirm with 1DX team
What privacy options do I have?	Email, Contact Details, Location, Relationship to SAP, Short Bio can all be set to Everyone or Private (yourself only)	Unable to see – confirm with 1DX team
Do I have the option to create a Bio/About Me	YES – where you edit your own account	Yes – under your account
What is the minimum information I must maintain against my account?	First name, Surname and Email	Remains unchanged
How long can my Bio be?	Unknown (more than 3500 characters)	Up to 200 characters
What pictures can I upload?	You currently have an Avatar and 3 photos	One Photo only which acts as the avatar as well
SCN Gamification	Your profile currently shows the Current Points (lifetime); Current Status; and Badges	Refer blog on Gamification Changes
Area of Expertise	You set this in free text against your profile. Gamification in place until 31 May 2016	Points and Badges will be ‘archived’ as part of IDX and a new gamification model will be implemented. SCN status will appear in karma value/snapshot. Refer to Gamification Changes
Can I specify my languages against my profile for communication?	No	Yes (multiple entries allowed)
Can I add external accounts/links about Me (e.g. personal blog, twitter, LinkedIn)?	Not really, more under general information or additional information	Yes, under your profile > Elsewhere information. Multiple accounts can be added and will show as a hyperlink
Where can I manage my newsletter subscriptions	Your profile > Actions > Change newsletter subscriptions	manage > Manage your newsletters – redirects you to https://www.sap.com/profile/subscriptions.html more subscriptions available in central place
Communication with SAP (how can SAP contact you)		manage > Communication Settings. Set whether or not SAP can communicate with you via email and/or phone
Can I download vCard?	Yes via your profile > Bio > Actions > Download vCard	Unable to see – confirm with 1DX team
Can I set status update?	Yes	No – no personal status updates and ability for people to respond exists in 1DX.
View My Bookmarks	Your account /bookmarks - shows blogs, documents, discussions, polls and status updates
View my connections	Your account /connection – able to filter on who you Follow versus Who Follows you. Summary of connections displayed against your profile overview	Unable to see – confirm with 1DX team where this will appear as it has been discussed previously
View my content	Your account /content	https://people.sap.com > My Content. To the left side is a summary to expand Content numbers out
View my Activity Stream	Your account > Activity

Questions and Answers

1DX URL:  answers.sap.com

Item	SCN	1Dx
Can I raise a Discussion?	Yes under a space	Only for coffee Corner – discussions are not longer available in 1DX
How do I create a Question?	Navigate to a space and/or Raise a Discussion and mark it as a question. Assign it to specific space. Do not raise multiple questions for different spaces. Use tags to achieve cross posting
How do I mark correct and helpful answers	Option box against each response	Choose Accept as the correct answer – it will show as ‘Best Answer’
How many correct and helpful answers are allowed?	1 correct answer Up to 10? Helpful answer	Unsure if helpful answers exist anymore
Where do I create a Question	You must create question within a specific space. Tag would then be used for cross-posting	Create the question and select primary TAG as the replacement for a space. Unlimited secondary tags can be added for cross-posting
How can I sort the answer thread	No option	Sort by Votes, Newest and Oldest
Can other members like/dislike answers?	Like Only	Users will have the ability to upvote and downvote an answer for an answer directly against the question User will have the ability to Like any answers embedded in a reply.
Can you like or upvote your own answer?	No (option is deactivated)	No (message will appear)
Is there an alert moderator for the question?	Yes	Yes
Is there an Alert Moderator for the answer?	Yes	Yes
Is there a minimum length required for a response		10 characters (message is shown)
What is the visibility of my response?	Everyone, including guests	Everyone, including guests unless you are a moderator
Can I edit my post	Only if no-one has replied to it already
Who is notified I make a change	Everyone who is following the question	Everyone if you choose tick box – Notify Followers
Can I see revisions of the edit?	No	Yes – Actions > See Revisions Edit is available even if a person has put a comment against it (to confirm if this is due to Moderator rights)
What is the limit to a reply?	Not specified	Comments under an answer – 10 to 600 characters in length No limit (it appears) to answer a question – can also include pictures and links
Can I delete a post?	Only Moderator can	Yes – only marks as deleted. Does not actually delete. Delegation flag can be removed to reinstate confirm if this is related to moderation access as well
Can I follow/unfollow the question	Yes	Yes
Does my question auto save	No	Yes – this occurs as you type
What is the length of a question title?	Unsure but if too long it made it difficult to open the link	255 character limit – error message appears that you must correct it “The form below has errors. Correct fields in red and try again”
What is the limit to length of question contents?	Unsure	There does not appear to be one of it’s quite long
Where can I see Activity stream for Questions?	Appears in All Activity stream	https://answers.sap.com/questions/index.html for all questions regardless of primary tags

Documents

1DX URL: Archive.sap.com (not the only item)

Item	SCN	1Dx
Can I create a document?	Yes under the specific space	No – documents will no longer be support
Where can I see documents created in SCN?	SCN relevant space or against author’s content	Archive.sap.com
Find migrated blogs	http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-XXXXXX where XXXX is the Document number	same document number from SCN http://archive.sap.com/documents/docs/DOC-XXXXX