Index numbers on posts

[Tix Mascot]

Hi!

Some of our members have asked me if it's possible to mark each post in a thread with a serial number, so that its easier to find a particular post in a long thread insted of referring to "the third post from the top on page 45" and so on. I told them that this is above my competence level, so I hope that a qualified person can help us here. I have checked the plugin library, but I didn't find any suitable plugin that covers this function.

Thanks in advance!

Heretix

[?adwoman?]

support.proboards.com/post/7085720

[Lynx]

A "serial number" to me implies a unique number for each post. There's an easy way to do this without a plugin, and you only need to add 1 line in a template. In Admin > Themes > Layout Templates > Thread > Post List (tab), place this where you want it to show:


$[post.id]


You can't get any more of a unique number that the post's ID itself - since they don't get reused.

[Tix Mascot]

?adwoman?, this is really great, even better than what I was looking for.

Lynx, this is also very useful. Now, I have a second system to ID a post by.

Thanks a bunch to both of you for these intelligent solutions!