ascertaining selected threads/posts

[Wormopolis]

is there a way to get the list of the currently selected threads/posts (using the checkboxes on the left of them) that enable multi-moderation?  such as when you have multiple threads selected in "recent threads", and you click bookmark, it bookmarks all of them.  but is there a way to get the entire list its going to bookmark BEFORE it bookmarks them?

[Peter]

$(".item.thread input.list-item-checkbox:checked") // Threads

$(".post-options-checkbox input:checked") // Posts

[Wormopolis]

that would work if they were all on the same page, yes. but it wouldnt get the ones still selected after you went to the next page.

[Peter]

Wormopolis

To be honest you weren't clear on that, otherwise I would have posted a better solution.

It is possible, but I don't have time to look right now.

If no one has replied with a solution when I get back either later or tomorrow, I'll tell you how to do it. Basically you need to look at the pagination cache.

[Wormopolis]

Aug 4, 2013 11:53:09 GMT -8 Peter said:

Wormopolis

To be honest you weren't clear on that, otherwise I would have posted a better solution.

It is possible, but I don't have time to look right now.

If no one has replied with a solution when I get back either later or tomorrow, I'll tell you how to do it. Basically you need to look at the pagination cache.

yeah I probably wasnt. 

I will search around pagination data and see if I find anything

[Peter]

What you want to look at, is the cache in "autosearch", this is where the pages are cached too.

$(".ui-search input.search-input").data("autosearch").cache

[Chris]

I'm not sure if it was always this way but I can't seem to access that data on a thread listings page of a board because Proboards chose not to expose it. When a list manager is created it is usually assigned to a global variable listMan but if you view the source of the standard_board_show function you'll see they create it there but with no reference holder

new listManager("threads", {
total : proboards.data("lm_thread_count"),
limit : proboards.data("lm_limit"),
page : proboards.data("lm_page"),
id : proboards.data("lm_id"),
data : {
board_id : proboards.data("board_id")
}
});
by contrast view the source of the standard_post_base function you'll see

listMan = new listManager("posts", {
total : proboards.data("lm_total"),
limit : proboards.data("lm_limit"),
page : proboards.data("lm_page"),
data : proboards.data("lm_data"),
id : proboards.data("lm_id")
})
Where you could then use the data structure as in this thread in particular the selected_ids array and the selected_items object

[Wormopolis]

well the pagination cache holds what it saw on the previous page, BUT it doesnt reflect changes. so if you click a checkbox, then change pages, then check cache data, it doesnt show that the clickbox was checked.

I have been trying to trace through the bookmark function. I found b.get_selected(), but I havent figured out where b was set in order to try and use it myself. I also dont know if VS Admin is going to hit me with a broken toaster for trying to use a function in the PB source. while tracing the bookmark, b.get_selected() does show all of the selected threads from all of the different pages, but Im still not sure how b was called in the first place.

[Chris]

b would hold a reference to what listMan would hold were it set globally on that page, you cannot however use it since it is a protected closure variable. If you go to a page with posts on it and do a console.dir(listMan) you'll see that that method and several other methods along with the properties I mentioned all reside on that object that is created through a constructor but within an inaccessible closure scope. The globally defined listMan variable is what makes it accessible but only when the coding sets it which it does but only inconsistently.

[Peter]

Wormopolis

Can you not just collect the ID's yourself anyway? Bind a click to either the checkboxes or to the menu, and just hold the ids in an array, it's basically what the listManager does after each click of a checkbox.

[Wormopolis]

well.. I guess so. for some reason I thought pagination was clearing any variables I had in global, but I just tried it again and they are keeping.

so yeah. I CAN do that.

Thank you Peter

[VS Admin]

Aug 4, 2013 20:29:45 GMT -8 Wormopolis said:

well the pagination cache holds what it saw on the previous page, BUT it doesnt reflect changes. so if you click a checkbox, then change pages, then check cache data, it doesnt show that the clickbox was checked.

I have been trying to trace through the bookmark function. I found b.get_selected(), but I havent figured out where b was set in order to try and use it myself. I also dont know if VS Admin is going to hit me with a broken toaster for trying to use a function in the PB source. while tracing the bookmark, b.get_selected() does show all of the selected threads from all of the different pages, but Im still not sure how b was called in the first place.

If you try to use a function we haven't declared as 'public' then it's a use-at-your-own-risk scenario. That being said, if you need a function to get all the selected posts, I would suggest tagging some developers and let them know what you need and how you'd want it to function.

[Tim Camara]

Internally we use a custom get_selection function that's provided by listManager, so I don't think it would take us more than a few minutes to expose that functionality publicly.

[Wormopolis]

I would appreciate that very much if that could happen. it seemed like it was something that was already global but I just couldnt find since all the different actions in the moderator drop down had access to it, but I guess if the listman was part of the function that controlled all them then that is why I couldnt see it.

you want me to put a new thread in support or will this thread serve the purpose of the feature request?

[Tim Camara]

I already added it for you this morning, so this thread will suffice