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therookery
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 Posted - 22 February 2002 : 06:35:52
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A user on our forums (www.orlando-guide.info) has requested a feature where she can go to the first unread post when she logs on. Does anyone know if this is available as a MOD or if something similar is available?
John
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HuwR
Forum Admin
United Kingdom
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Posted - 22 February 2002 : 06:55:51
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no, this would require uite significant rewriting, posts are not flagged as read when you read them, you are just shown any posts since you last logged on, regardless of wjether you have read them
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therookery
Starting Member
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Posted - 25 February 2002 : 08:31:30
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Would it not just be a case of setting a cookie with the topic id and message id of the last displayed message every time a user views a thread.
When they load that thread again, it will load the cookie and if it has a value, display a link at the top of the topic so the user can automatically jump down to the next unread message.
Maybe I'm being a bit simplistic?
John
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HuwR
Forum Admin
United Kingdom
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Posted - 25 February 2002 : 08:37:23
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and how may topics do you have on your forum ? 1 or 1000? thats a lot of cookies.
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chief77
Junior Member
New Zealand
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Posted - 26 February 2002 : 02:26:10
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Can it not use the "Last Visited Date" as a way to find out the first unread post in a thread?
perhaps a link/button that go straight to the particular post in one thread, that match the "Last Visited Date" to a thread/post's "Last Posted Date". (This would mean to create a name anchor somewhere in the <tr>......)
Am I making any sense?  *LOL* (I'll shuddup now..)
Kel.
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therookery
Starting Member
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Posted - 08 March 2002 : 09:59:06
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fYou are making perfect sense chief77.
I've implemented the cookie method I suggested on our forums for the time being but a method based on last visited date would be much neater.
The only problem I now have is what if a topic is more than 1 page long and I want to put the 'Go to last unread message' prompt at the top of each thread page. I can see how it would just check for the first message with a date > Late Visited Date on page 1, but how would it handle other pages?
John
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Roland
Advanced Member
Netherlands
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Posted - 08 March 2002 : 10:14:04
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How about editing subscriptions so they don't link to the topic, but to the reply that has just been made? I know you can use reply ID's to go directly to a reply (hover your mouse over the "reply with quote icon and you can see the reply ID) so that should be possible...
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chief77
Junior Member
New Zealand
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Posted - 08 March 2002 : 10:35:04
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John.. thanks for understanding my "solution"... *Guess I'm not as crazy in idea as I sounded like* *LOL*
Anyhow, to further my idea on adding an anchor tag. I assumed that the "last visited date" should match or compare with all the posted posts made in a thread, and see whichever post is the "youngest" unread and add the <a name> tag to it, this check will goes throughout the whole thread. Which mean, if a person is reading the first page of the thread where the newest posts are 5 pages away, it should have a hyperlink at the top of the first page thread linking to page-5-anchor.
I know vBulletin has this built-in into their board, which is handy... but this feature is new to Snitz and it is helpful though.
I am much of an idealist, but not a strong coder... I hope someone can implement this idea into a working mod.
Kel. 
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therookery
Starting Member
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Posted - 08 March 2002 : 10:42:21
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chief77 - you've definitely got the makings of an idea there. If only I could get my head round the jump to other pages problem.
I guess you could read in the whole topic at the very top and work out what is the first topic with a posting date > date you last visited and then what page this is going to appear on.
If this is done, the solution to the problem is academic.
The implementation of this with cookies that we currently have on our forums (www.orlando-guide.info) was quite easy to do - hope this one is too!
John
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