My background is in technology - specifically Business Intelligence and Data Engineering but throughout my personal and professional work experience, I've created and automated some pretty powerful and robust workbooks and dashboards (Metrics/KPI reporting) using Excel.

Then you use an octothorpe character (also known as hash, octothorn, pound sign, number sign), followed by the letter p and the post number.If you are curious, you can always hover over a '>>' on the forum dashboard page to examine a link, or you can actually press the "quote" link alongside a post where I (or somebody else) has done this and you will see the exact text used in BP's mark-up syntax.Sorry for putting in such a long post that veers off topic.

Because we no longer have groups here on the site, but have a need for our members to discuss issues that sometimes may be sticky - like politics (a real estate site does need a place to discuss politics and policy) - we've taken our Off-Topic Forum and made it one that only shows up in both your dashboard forum feed and your forum feed if you elect to opt-in.You can always go directly to the Off-Topic area via the View All Forums page or via our 'Jump to Category' forum nav, but for those who want to keep up with the latest posts from this forum in your feeds, here's how.Just go to your Settings page and click on the FORUM settings tab.

Hey Joshua Dorkin, Brandon Turner,Any chance of getting a check box system, or some other way to mass delete alerts on the notifications page of my dashboard?

@Gina Burton go to your dashboard.

Hi @Bryan Weller when you follow someone, you can see their activity in your Dashboard feed.See more info on the Bigger Pockets help file for follows.

Joshua,since today I get messages of new forum posts started by unknown members in my dashboard, they are no colleagues and no followers.

When I go to the dashboard I no longer see "My Photos" as one of the options on the lefthand side of the screen.

Hey everyone, Today, you may have noticed something different on your Dashboard or in the Forums - the "People to Know" section.

Review the pod casts and select the ones that you would be most interested in; explore the dash board there is a ton of good information available, controls, inspection forms, etc; no need to be creative just review what is already available.