View new content links, why they doesnt take me to first unread post?

[Owdy]

Is this a bug or feature? If topic is unread, subject is bolded, good. But if i click that subject, it doesnt take me to first unread post, it just takes me to first post in that topick. If i click that star image, it takes me to first unread, good. Why bolded subject doesnt take to first unread?

Subject link url ends to "page__fromsearch__1", star images "/unread/"

[Charles]

We want to keep behavior consistent across all the areas. On topic view it works as you described so it should also work that way on view new content.

[Adriano Faria]

It doesn't work for me either. It's going to first post.

[Rhett]

Could one of the Dev's point us to the proper template or page to edit these links?

[Rhett]

It doesn't work for me either. It's going to first post.

As Charles said above, this was changed in 3.2.0, they no longer take you to the "New content" when clicking on a link on the new content results page, it now takes you to the first post in a thread. You now have to click the little star to go directly to the new content (post).

[Adriano Faria]

Ah ok! :)

[Owdy]

We want to keep behavior consistent across all the areas. On topic view it works as you described so it should also work that way on view new content.

Yes, it should take you to first unread in all areas.

[Charles]

Yes, it should take you to first unread in all areas.

We had it that way in an early alpha of 3.2 and everyone hated it with a passion deep in their souls.

[Owdy]

We had it that way in an early alpha of 3.2 and everyone hated it with a passion deep in their souls.

LOL, okay :D Can you tell me how to change it in my site?

[Charles]

LOL, okay [img]

[/img] Can you tell me how to change it in my site?

Just add /unread/ to the end of topic links in your skin.

[Rhett]

Can you highlight the change needed in the template charles?

This is the Search>asforumTopics template

<tr class='__topic __tid{$data['tid']} <if test="!$data['_icon']['is_read']">unread</if> expandable <if test="$data['approved'] != 1"> moderated</if>' id='trow_{$data['tid']}' data-tid="{$data['tid']}"> <td class='col_f_icon short altrow'> {parse template="generateTopicIcon" group="global_other" params="$data['_icon'], $data['_unreadUrl']"} </td> <td> <if test="hasPrefix:|:!empty($data['tags']['formatted']['prefix'])"> {$data['tags']['formatted']['prefix']} </if> <h4><a href='{parse url="showtopic={$data['tid']}<if test="isNewPostTR:|:$this->request['do']=='new_posts' OR $this->request['do']=='active'">&amp;view=getnewpost<else /><if test="resultIsPostTR:|:$data['pid'] AND $data['pid'] != $data['topic_firstpost']">&amp;view=findpost&amp;p={$data['pid']}</if></if>&amp;hl={$data['cleanSearchTerm']}&amp;fromsearch=1" seotitle="{$data['title_seo']}" template="showtopic" base="public"}' title='{$this->lang->words['view_result']}'>{$data['_shortTitle']}</a></h4> <span class='desc blend_links'> <foreach loop="topicsForumTrail:$data['_forum_trail'] as $i => $f"> <if test="notLastFtAsForum:|:$i+1 == count( $data['_forum_trail'] )"><span class='desc lighter'>in</span> <a href='{parse url="{$f[1]}" template="showforum" seotitle="{$f[2]}" base="public"}'>{$f[0]}</a></if> </foreach>

[Owdy]

Ok, thanks!

[Rhett]

bump.... I tried a few edit's and it's not working as desired... can one of you coders show me the proper way to do this please and thanks! :)

[Owdy]

Id like to know too :)

[Rhett]

bump for an answer! :)

[Owdy]

We had it that way in an early alpha of 3.2 and everyone hated it with a passion deep in their souls.

Did you hate it also in mobile? Its very hard to click that little star in mobile....

[EricGagne]

People sometimes want to re-read the last post(s) of a topic or after having read it earlier they come back to the forum and want to post a reply. View new content gives us a quick way of seeing the topics that had activity recently, it's quicker than going though the forum.

The problem with this new behavior is that from the new content page we have no way of going straight to the last post of a topic. If there's no unread posts, the start/circle is disabled and the only link is the topic title.

Suggestion: Change the behavior of the star/circle for it to go to the first unread post if there's any or straight to the last post of the topic if there's no unread ones.

[Marcher Technologies]

Can you highlight the change needed in the template charles?

This is the Search>asforumTopics template

<tr class='__topic __tid{$data['tid']} <if test="!$data['_icon']['is_read']">unread</if> expandable <if test="$data['approved'] != 1"> moderated</if>' id='trow_{$data['tid']}' data-tid="{$data['tid']}">

<td class='col_f_icon short altrow'>

{parse template="generateTopicIcon" group="global_other" params="$data['_icon'], $data['_unreadUrl']"}

</td>

<td>

<if test="hasPrefix:|:!empty($data['tags']['formatted']['prefix'])">

{$data['tags']['formatted']['prefix']}

</if>

<h4><a href='{parse url="showtopic={$data['tid']}<if test="isNewPostTR:|:$this->request['do']=='new_posts' OR $this->request['do']=='active'">&amp;view=getnewpost<else /><if test="resultIsPostTR:|:$data['pid'] AND $data['pid'] != $data['topic_firstpost']">&amp;view=findpost&amp;p={$data['pid']}</if></if>&amp;hl={$data['cleanSearchTerm']}&amp;fromsearch=1" seotitle="{$data['title_seo']}" template="showtopic" base="public"}' title='{$this->lang->words['view_result']}'>{$data['_shortTitle']}</a></h4>

<span class='desc blend_links'>

<foreach loop="topicsForumTrail:$data['_forum_trail'] as $i => $f">

<if test="notLastFtAsForum:|:$i+1 == count( $data['_forum_trail'] )"><span class='desc lighter'>in</span> <a href='{parse url="{$f[1]}" template="showforum" seotitle="{$f[2]}" base="public"}'>{$f[0]}</a></if>

</foreach>

I do not have a large enough testing environment.. but from what i'm seeing in initial behavior this should do it

<h4><a href='{parse url="showtopic={$data['tid']}<if test="isNewPostTR:|:$this->request['do']=='new_posts' OR $this->request['do']=='active'">&amp;view=getnewpost<else /><if test="resultIsPostTR:|:$data['pid'] OR $data['pid'] != $data['topic_firstpost']">&amp;view=getlastpost</if></if>&amp;hl={$data['cleanSearchTerm']}&amp;fromsearch=1" seotitle="{$data['title_seo']}" template="showtopic" base="public"}' title='{$this->lang->words['view_result']}'>{$data['_shortTitle']}</a></h4>

Twould be a mod to links themselves.

People sometimes want to re-read the last post(s) of a topic or after having read it earlier they come back to the forum and want to post a reply. View new content gives us a quick way of seeing the topics that had activity recently, it's quicker than going though the forum.

The problem with this new behavior is that from the new content page we have no way of going straight to the last post of a topic. If there's no unread posts, the start/circle is disabled and the only link is the topic title.

Suggestion: Change the behavior of the star/circle for it to go to the first unread post if there's any or straight to the last post of the topic if there's no unread ones.

on top of that, if you read but did not post, there is no image at all... taking a look at that atm.

[Rhett]

I will give that a try and post back, thank you for the help.

[Owdy]

Mobile skin?

<a class="title" href='{parse url="showtopic={$data['tid']}<if test="isNewPostTR:|:$this->request['do']=='new_posts' OR $this->request['do']=='active'">&amp;view=getnewpost<else /><if test="resultIsPostTR:|:$data['pid'] OR $data['pid'] != $data['topic_firstpost']">&amp;view=getlastpost</if></if>&amp;hl={$data['cleanSearchTerm']}&amp;fromsearch=1" seotitle="{$data['title_seo']}" template="showtopic" base="public"}' title='{$this->lang->words['view_result']}'>{$data['_shortTitle']}</a>

[Marcher Technologies]

dont see how it wouldnt? relevant bit is right here:

<if test="resultIsPostTR:|:$data['pid'] OR $data['pid'] != $data['topic_firstpost']">&amp;view=getlastpost</if>

Default code is as above in r1's post.
All ive done is modified the iftest dealing with the topic having a post not first to an OR, and swapped the link thereof from a "find post" to a get last, if anyone has a more elegant solution, feel free, twas what i could come up with upon seeing r1's post in another topic ;)

[Rhett]

We don't want to go to the last post though.... but to the first unread... hmmmm

After looking at some other pages and the code it seems your change above should work, it doesn't make sense to me though but I'll try it today and see. :)

[Rhett]

Ya that takes it to the last post...

What we want to do is this..

If a topic has a new post, then it takes us to /unread
If a topic is read then it takes us to the first post.

I have tried a few more things and still no dice.

Matt? Brandon? Can you give us a little help please? I'll buy the first one of you a 12 pack that helps! :)

[Marcher Technologies]

i believe Ive stumbled into the root of this:

<if test="isNewPostTR:|:$this->request['do']=='new_posts' OR $this->request['do']=='active' OR $this->request['do']=='viewNewContent'">&amp;view=getnewpost<else />

they have limited the "getnewpost(or unread)" quite effectively by the request, and ONLY the request, not wether its been read or not:

<if test="isNewPostTR:|:$this->request['do']=='new_posts' OR $this->request['do']=='active' ">&amp;view=getnewpost<else />

[Rhett]

It is for sure a little tricky not knowing all of the system and how they are calling it properly.... Charles made it sounds easy, but I think he was just looking at the browser link info... lol