The document provides instructions for dealers to access and use the new DIS Dealer Community online forum. It explains how to log in using an existing user ID and password or create a new account. It describes the main sections of the community including asking questions, viewing previous posts, and interacting with other dealers. The goal is to build a community where dealers can get support, share ideas, and engage with each other.
2. DIS Dealer Community
• Getting started is simple and user-friendly!
• Sign on to the DIS Website and check out our new DIS Dealer Community,
www.discorp.com
• Sign on with your existing user ID and Password.
• If you are not yet registered we can provide a temporary password for you
to get started. If you are already registered however cannot remember
your password DIS employees will be on hand to help!
3. • Simply Click on the new Community tab from the main landing page after
logging in to gain access to the new DIS Community.
4. • You will receive a prompt indicating that a community profile will be
established for you based on your registered user ID and Email used to access
the DIS website, simply click Continue.
5. • Once Click on the DIS link in the authentication email notice you receive in
order to log into the DIS Community.
6. • Upon Connecting to the DIS Dealer Community, you will be directed to the
DIS Community Home Page. Click on the Product, QuipWare for example in
order to access the Dealer Community appropriate to your business system.
• Note, you will only have to access your Dealer Community via this page from initial
authentication or if you access the forum directly via www.getsatisfaction.com/dis.
Access initiated from the DIS Website will always default to your associated business
system.
7. • Once you have authenticated your subscribership, you will be automatically
directed to the Dealer Community appropriate to your business system upon
login to the DIS website.
8. • From the Welcome Menu there is a menu of which allows access for
defining profile information where you can define a Nickname, Tagline,
Location, Twitter, Flickr and/or Website Blog accounts. Add a photo as well
for that personal touch!
9. • Within your profile, you can access the Email & Notifications Settings in
order to add additional email addresses and/or set your preferences for alerts
on Community postings.
10. • From your Profile, accessing Activity, you can view just those postings that
you have responded to, selected to follow or “selected +1" (voted on) to get
all the updates on those topics of which are of greatest interest to you in one
location.
You can also opt to “Unfollow” any topics from this location as well.
11. • The Primary method of communication on the DIS Dealer Community is via
the “Ask a question” tab. This enables the Topic Intercept Search.
Options include, Ask a Question, Sharing an Idea, Reporting a Problem or
Giving praise.
12. • In the text box, you can type in a question, or partial phrase for what you
are looking for in the Community, then click continue. This will engage the
database to locate any possible related subject matter and display in reverse
chronological order for your review.
• Any matches will display below the Ask a question box, in which you can click on
the link to view the full post.
13. • The full post is opened and you can see all related postings to the topic
selected. Here you can reply to the topic, Vote on a topic and/or follow this
post to receive email notifications when there are any new updates.
• If the post/s recovered do not answer your question, click back to Topics and then
select “Nope. Finish posting my question” in order to continue with posting a
message in the community or click the button “Create a new topic” on this screen.
14. • Select a Topic Type, Topic Title, add Details – these will help in other users locating
your questions and any responses received for future.
Choose an Emoticon to express your current feelings and specify whether or not to
include your email address for direct communication with DIS.
Your Related Product should be selected by default according to your user profile.
You can additionally input tag words in order to categorize your topic.
• Click Post to finalize.
15. • Come join us in the new DIS Dealer Community, get information, share your
thoughts, get input from other dealers or just engage with fellow community
members all of which will help build our new Dealer Community!