Show who has a thread bookmarked?

[joolz]

I have a forum where people work in teams. Each team has a dedicated board and Member Group. Members can participate on all forum boards, but need to be notified of all posts on their allocated 'team' board.

To cut a long story short, I've spoken to Support and we can't 'bookmark' a team board, we can't automatically bookmark team colleagues to our work posts. We can only (a) tag every team member team in every post on our team board or (b) find a way to ensure that all team members manually bookmark all threads on their team board.

We have a 'new work post' template and I have added an instruction that teams should bookmark all new threads, but I'd like a 'safety net' in case they forget as many members will be new to using a forum.

Michael Stone helpfully suggested: You could create a plugin (or request for one to be made) to record when someone clicked the button to bookmark the thread, but there isn't a way to pull the actual "users who have bookmarked this thread" data from the forum.  This would let team leaders see where bookmarks haven't been added.

Is this a plugin that would be useful for others too?  Or can anyone come up with another idea for a plugin that would help?

Thanks.

[Wormopolis]

are you looking to store that data on the thread itself or on each user to see which threads they have bookmarked?

[joolz]

Jul 18, 2013 22:41:36 GMT -8 Wormopolis said:

are you looking to store that data on the thread itself or on each user to see which threads they have bookmarked?

On the thread would be great as we only need to check that teams bookmark all the threads on their 'home' work board, if they bookmark anything on other boards we don't need to check on that.

But if it's easier to do it on the user then that would be better than not being able to check at all.

Thanks for your query. Hope someone can pick this up.

[joolz]

Anyone able to help with this? I assume I need to close the request if this is too hard to do? How long do I leave it open? Don't want to cause hassle.

[Wormopolis]

I started on it but got sidetracked with some major problems in a coulpe other plugins that needed my attention. Im working more on it this weekend, but if anyone else wants to crank one out before me, be my guest.

[joolz]

Aug 2, 2013 21:53:57 GMT -8 Wormopolis said:

I started on it but got sidetracked with some major problems in a coulpe other plugins that needed my attention. Im working more on it this weekend, but if anyone else wants to crank one out before me, be my guest.

Thank you Wormopolis, I'm happy to wait until you have time, I just didn't want to leave the request open if no one was able to look at it.

Much appreciated, thanks.

[Wormopolis]

I ran into a problem with this. I can make it work splendidly from within the thread itself. however if they are on the "recent threads" page, and they select a bunch of threads and bookmark them from there, I cannot figure out a way to get the list of selected threads in order to set keys before the bookmark action happens.

Peter gave me a suggestion, but it hasnt produced any results yet, so I am hoping there is a hidden variable I dont know about that stores all the selected items globally I can access. Im waiting to hear back.

[joolz]

Aug 4, 2013 16:36:18 GMT -8 Wormopolis said:

I ran into a problem with this. I can make it work splendidly from within the thread itself. however if they are on the "recent threads" page, and they select a bunch of threads and bookmark them from there, I cannot figure out a way to get the list of selected threads in order to set keys before the bookmark action happens.

Peter gave me a suggestion, but it hasnt produced any results yet, so I am hoping there is a hidden variable I dont know about that stores all the selected items globally I can access. Im waiting to hear back.

Thanks for the update Wormopolis, I appreciate your work on this.

[joolz]

Aug 4, 2013 16:36:18 GMT -8 Wormopolis said:

I ran into a problem with this. I can make it work splendidly from within the thread itself. however if they are on the "recent threads" page, and they select a bunch of threads and bookmark them from there, I cannot figure out a way to get the list of selected threads in order to set keys before the bookmark action happens.

Peter gave me a suggestion, but it hasnt produced any results yet, so I am hoping there is a hidden variable I dont know about that stores all the selected items globally I can access. Im waiting to hear back.

Do you think this is possible? I can tell people to bookmark from within the thread itself if that will make it easier?

As there's no option to bookmark a board we have a list of tags for every member of each board and it gets put in the first post of a new thread with a request to bookmark it.  As members of the board get a notification to open that post I could tell them to bookmark it while they have it open if it makes the code easier?

Thanks.

[Wormopolis]

I was told it was on the list of of pending approvals, but until the next push happens I dont know if the variable I need to store the selected threads is available.

if you want to stick to inside threads I can have that done probably by this weekend.

[joolz]

Aug 26, 2013 19:45:48 GMT -8 Wormopolis said:

I was told it was on the list of of pending approvals, but until the next push happens I dont know if the variable I need to store the selected threads is available.

if you want to stick to inside threads I can have that done probably by this weekend.

The inside threads option would be great, we can manage with that.  I don't want to rush you for the weekend, we haven't moved everyone into our forum from  facebook yet, but if you could manage it in a couple of weeks that would be terrific, thanks.

[joolz]

Aug 27, 2013 12:58:00 GMT -8 joolz said:

Aug 26, 2013 19:45:48 GMT -8 Wormopolis said:

I was told it was on the list of of pending approvals, but until the next push happens I dont know if the variable I need to store the selected threads is available.

if you want to stick to inside threads I can have that done probably by this weekend.

The inside threads option would be great, we can manage with that.  I don't want to rush you for the weekend, we haven't moved everyone into our forum from  facebook yet, but if you could manage it in a couple of weeks that would be terrific, thanks.

Hi

Our forum is going live on 28th Sept and I am doing demos during the week before, it would be great if you will have this handy for us soon?

Thanks loads.

[Wormopolis]

it was a long battle, but with a hint from Chris I got something working:

Download

give that a try



threads that have tracking data will have a new icon next to the board title that you click.

[joolz]

Sept 17, 2013 22:45:16 GMT -8 Wormopolis said:

it was a long battle, but with a hint from Chris I got something working:

Download

give that a try



threads that have tracking data will have a new icon next to the board title that you click.

Thank you very much!!  I'll llet you know how it goes

[Wormopolis]

it will currently only show that icon to members designated as staff. I guess I can put in something that shows it to a list of members instead...