Auto scrolling to new post within a thread

[Former Member]

When clicking on a thread - To auto scroll to new/latest post as default

Could there be an option to set this as DEFAULT on the forum if wished
By going admin "general settings" to set as default ie,
A on and off button in general settings...

Steve

[Ryan Roos]

If you want to go to the newest or latest post you click on the new icon. If you don't you click on the thread title. You have the option. There's no need for a default.

However. I will add it to our list of features for discussion for v5.x. It's possible we may want to provide it as an additional option in a future update of the v5 software. I could see how you may want to create a board that does this. Maybe it's an idea for a board setting as opposed to a forum setting.

[Bulldog]

Hi Ryan,

Appreciate the explanations, I'd like to second the request tho' if I may.

Couple notes:
1) We're finding sometimes clicking "new" still takes the member to the first post on the first page instead of the most recent post on the last page. Not always, but if that thread has been dormant for a few days or longer that seems to happen.

2) When there is NOT a "new" icon, to get to the last page members have to click the last page number, then scroll down, sometimes an entire page worth of posts, to see the last post. Yes, hitting "end" jumps down the page (often too far down!), but not everyone's technically-minded like that, and not everyone is using a mouse of course in this age of mobile devices (as my members keep reminding me).

Doesnt' seem to be forum specific, as happens on both my boards. A built-in "jump-to-most-recent/last read" option would protect a lot of board admins from a lot of complaining from members.

Thanks for readin'.
Bulldog

[Ryan Roos]

Apr 15, 2013 14:44:31 GMT -8 Bulldog said:

Hi Ryan,

Appreciate the explanations, I'd like to second the request tho' if I may.

Couple notes:
1) We're finding sometimes clicking "new" still takes the member to the first post on the first page instead of the most recent post on the last page. Not always, but if that thread has been dormant for a few days or longer that seems to happen.

2) When there is NOT a "new" icon, to get to the last page members have to click the last page number, then scroll down, sometimes an entire page worth of posts, to see the last post. Yes, hitting "end" jumps down the page (often too far down!), but not everyone's technically-minded like that, and not everyone is using a mouse of course in this age of mobile devices (as my members keep reminding me).

Doesnt' seem to be forum specific, as happens on both my boards. A built-in "jump-to-most-recent/last read" option would protect a lot of board admins from a lot of complaining from members.

Thanks for readin'.
Bulldog

Hi Bulldog,

1) When a forum first converts there are false new icons because everything is considered new. V4 to v5 can;t convert what people have and haven't read to the specific post. So when it doesn't know what to do it decides everything in the thread is new. After a while this will work itself out. If you create new threads that get new posts they will work fine. And old threads will become correct after they are viewed once. We can only track that a thread had new content at the conversion, not what that specific content was. Sorry. I assure you that new icons do work properly otherwise.

2) We actually already had this but it was disabled. We will be bringing it back. The way it works (when it's working) is that you simply click the cell in the last reply column and it will take you to the last post. We will try to get that working again soon.

Thank you.

[K Phoenix]

Actually, with a template modification you can add that functionality back to the last post column; I did in my test forum since I was missing this functionality as well.

1. Go to "Themes > Layout Templates > Board > Thread List tab".

2. Find the variable

$[thread.last_post.date]

(which is probably in a line like

<td class="latest last">by $[thread.last_post.created_by_user]<br />$[thread.last_post.date]</td>
)

and surround that variable in an a tag with

$[thread.recent_link.href]

as the href. The whole line should look something like

<td class="latest last">by $[thread.last_post.created_by_user]<br /><a href="$[thread.recent_link.href]">$[thread.last_post.date]</a></td>

Repeat for every theme that needs this.

(There may be a more efficient way to do this; someone more experienced with the way the template variables work could probably tell you.)

Still trying to figure out how to make that display with the theme's default link color (e.g. blue in the default theme), but it is clickable and functional for now. Good to hear it'll be coming back as a standard feature soon, though!

[jrooster76]

I was able to get the results I wanted by using K Phoenix's suggestion with a slight modification:

<td class="latest last">by $[thread.last_post.created_by_user]<br /><a href="$[thread.recent_link.href]/$[thread.last_post.id]">$[thread.last_post.date]</a></td>

You need to add the last post's ID to the URL.