TECH HELP NEEDED: 'Mark forum as read' not working
- EcleckticMama
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TECH HELP NEEDED: 'Mark forum as read' not working
The "Mark posts as read" doesn't work (believe me I was giving that button a workout too with all the edits to the subject lines lately).
Similar issue:
The icon on "Ritual candles" always says there are new posts even when there aren't (when I've just read them and return to the main board, etc. not just use the back button; I even will open that board to see if there was a new reply, but there isn't.)
I wonder if this is a corollary to the "New Posts that Aren't New" thing.
(Eclecktic Mama: Subject line edited to reflect accurate name of the tool as pointed out by nagasiva. 2/26/09)
Similar issue:
The icon on "Ritual candles" always says there are new posts even when there aren't (when I've just read them and return to the main board, etc. not just use the back button; I even will open that board to see if there was a new reply, but there isn't.)
I wonder if this is a corollary to the "New Posts that Aren't New" thing.
(Eclecktic Mama: Subject line edited to reflect accurate name of the tool as pointed out by nagasiva. 2/26/09)
Re: "Mark posts as read" Button
This is pretty much the same issue, yes. 
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Re: "Mark posts as read" Button
How amusing. I don't see that button, just
"Mark forums as read"
and
"Mark topics as read"
where is the "Mark posts as read"? button?
I haven't yet tried marking things read as i have everything set to read all the time. soon i'll begin to get the hang of that one.
"Mark forums as read"
and
"Mark topics as read"
where is the "Mark posts as read"? button?
I haven't yet tried marking things read as i have everything set to read all the time. soon i'll begin to get the hang of that one.
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Re: "Mark posts as read" Button
At least we're all having fun playing with our new toy! 
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Re: "Mark topics as read" clickable tool
You're right nagasiva, I called it the wrong thing. I was referring to the "Mark topics read" clickable thing-y. It's not graphically formatted as a "button".nagasiva wrote:How amusing. I don't see that button, just
"Mark forums as read"
and
"Mark topics as read"
where is the "Mark posts as read"? button?
I haven't yet tried marking things read as i have everything set to read all the time. soon i'll begin to get the hang of that one.
Re: "Mark Topics as Read" Clickable Tool
I used to run a PhpBB forum, and I've found that, while this is sometimes a bug in the base installation of PhpBB, it's usually a problem introduced by a modification being applied to the base installation. It is often far from being the administrator's fault, but rather a faulty editing of the code by the install script/application. To be honest, I manually installed all of my forum modifications for that very reason, though it was quite tedious. In a situation like this it's usually a pretty straightforward fix (if you know where to look)....often a very small error. Such is the nature of php code, or any for that matter. One colon or something out of place and, Bam!, a function doesn't work.
Re: "Mark Topics as Read" Clickable Tool
Yup, that's what I figured myself. That's why I'm currently working with a forum testbed, starting from scratch as it were, with a clean, unmodified version for comparison purposes. Probably what I should have done from the beginning, but as they say, hindsight is 20/20. 
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TECH HELP NEEDED: 'Mark forum as read' not working
Once I discovered that I could select "mark forums a(s) read" so the forums with new posts would be red, I was really excited. However, some forums refuse to be marked as read...even when I've manually opened topics that weren't read by me before. I'm just not sure if that function doesn't work or perhaps there are topics I can't see?
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Re: 'Mark forum as read' not working
Yes, some forums (not all, at least for me) refuse to be marked as read. Some just always show as having new messages, even when it does not - and I've checked back through all the pages of archives in those forums to see if there was a thread long ago that I hadn't read that was making it pop up.
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Re: 'Mark forum as read' not working
Okay glad it isn't just me! It was frustrating me for a while making me think I missed something!



