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Damage Control is a resource and community devoted to making the Oracle E-Business Suite easier to maintain - serious stuff with a touch of fun too. Damage Control will post your comments and Pickle ratings. Our Pickle Rating system averages the score of the resource and features “Our Top Pickles” on the home page. The three articles rated on “Our Top Pickles” include: Top Pickle = the highest rated article; Spicy Pickle = the most commented or controversial article; Fresh Pickle = the newest resource associated with that topic.
The Pickle Rating system:
Pickle ratings range from No Pickles (Empty Jar) to Five Pickles (Top Pickle)
Registration for Damage Control:
Registering is quick and easy. Simply click on the Register button on the top or bottom of the screen. You will be asked to provide a username (must be at least 4 characters), password, and email address. You are also given an opportunity to provide additional information such as name, title, company, state. Then, just hit Submit and you are ready to go.
How to Search on Damage Control:
Damage Control allows a user to quickly narrow down a search based on an infinite number of filter options. Damage Control relies upon adding and manipulating articles’ search terms, topics, tags, formats, date posted and rating.
Since there are so many ways to search and filter the Damage Control site, we are providing the basics to get you started.
Use of the Search field (top left of the page)
By entering a topic into the Search field, Damage Control will show every article that is associated with that topic.
Use of the Add Filter button (upper right of the page)
By entering a term in the Add Filter, you will be able to narrow your Search parameters in a chosen Topic.
For example: If you do a primary Search on Oracle, the results may be 48 articles. By entering an Add Filter term of Technology, the results may be narrowed to 6 articles.
Use of the Topics list (left side of page):
The Topics list consists of general topics applicable to maintaining Oracle E-Business Suite. If you have requested a search with multiple terms, you may see a Red + (number) next to Topics. This number shows the number of Search related articles that appear under a specific Topic.
Use of Release, Tags, Format, Date, and Sort Filters:
The options listed as pull downs for each of these filters, allow you to narrow your search further.
To delete a single filter, use the corresponding [X] next to each filter. If you want to start over, you can use the “Clear All” option. Or, you can start a new search using the Search Field.
Okay folks, now comes the fun part!!!
You are ready to comment and Pickle Rate the articles. You must be logged on to Damage Control to provide feedback.
After you have read an article, the community would like to hear your thoughts. You have a choice of Commenting or Pickle Rating the article. If you would like to do both, just hit Submit after you enter your comments and/or rating, then click on the Comments link again to provide additional feedback.