the new support site is a complete failure

[lordon]

ok for starters, the interface and the searchability is in my opinion flawed, for example "would you like to go back to list of downloads?" or actually showing the release number (instead of 8.0xx) while searching for administrative updates for ip office

safari

doesnt work correctly all the time

google chrome?

doesnt work correctly all the time

IE does work, but once again when clicking downloads and documents typing in ip office and then selecting downloads / the release, you still cannot see the full release number being offered!!!!!! Who did this?!?!?!?!?! ridiculous.

then after clicking to the download page there is no button to go back to the list of downloads for release 8.xx

the layout and overal feel of the site basically is not user friendly, ipofficeinfo.com is a much better example of what a support page should look like as crude and antiquated as it may be it just works

I really hope that you have not paid for this work and that changes can be made. it is downright horrible

I average two to sometimes even three ip office installations per week, and this is just not going to work when I need to put a customer on either a patched release or older release. the FULL RELEASE NUMBER NEEDS TO BE THERE

[srector]

Hi lordon,

Thanks for your comments this weekend.

Can you let me know exactly what's not working in chrome or safari and what version of the browser you're on? The site was tested across all modern browsers - If there's a defect that you're experiencing, I'd like to log with our IT group.

Have you tried the product support page for IP Office? http://support.avaya.com/products/P0160/ip-office/8.0.x. The product support page lists latest downloads for this product, along with user guides and top documents.

I also tried to follow the steps you outline above and had a few questions
- Go to Documents & Downloads
- Type in IP and IP Office appears
- Select IP Office and release 8.0x
- I see a list of downloads sorted by date
- Each download listed has a release in the title. Is that what you're seeing?
- Can you tell me what you're referring to when you are saying that the "full release number needs to be there?" For example, if I'm looking at this download page for IP Office for the GA release, the download has the release number in the title. http://support.avaya.com/downloads/download-details.action?contentId=C20122151855429490_6&prod uctId=P0160

Look forward to your response. We can also schedule time on the phone if needed.

[hicks10]

I completely agree that it's terrible! I went to the support site and typed in CS1000, release 7.5. Then I went through the list on the side and filtered the different manuals I wanted to download. When you click on a manual, you cannot open it in a new tab or window. So when you go back to the list of manuals, none of the filters are checked so you have to do that all over again. Why in the world you disable the ability to open a pdf in a new tab or window?????????????

And what in the **** is the View Downloads for? This is worse than Nortel's old site which was disaster. It used to be so easy. You click on a product then go to Documentation and it's all right there and easy to save. My lord what happened??????

[melanm]

The nortel site was the worst, and now its completely unusable
the only value to it, is a bad example.

Maybe the should look at cisco's site

[jdunla]

Once on the documentation page the navigation method is poorly designed and inefficent. Why the slide mechanism on the side of the page to scroll down??
This is a very poorly thought out method.
This is a support documentation site, the old site showed all the docs with the ability to scroll down the entire page and showed on the docs on that one page.
The new "slide" scroll is not appropriate for a support site, for a child's game site, perphaps. But, not one where the goal is the view and navigate as quickly and easy as possible. This is not the case now with new support site.
To get so wrong, something as fundamental as the navigation mechansim, points to the need to a complete re-evaluation of the design criteria of the support site.

[mmmackin]

Thanks for your feedback. We have an enhancement request to revise the scrolling design on search result pages.

[gysbersg]

100% Correct. Website interface is "not good." Other fine descriptive words came to mind.

[werickso]

We are working on delivering some improvements to the search engine, as we are in development on some tuning initiatives. Early to Mid fall time frame 2012

We are work to resolve some of the Usability issues, like the functionality of "Back" -- intent it to open the findings in a new window / tab; Search results name truncation improvements, ...

When we have a GA date we will post the planned improvements to the forum.