Hello,

how can I change the shown date of a topic in the topic widget that it shows the date of the last post and not of the topic start? This makes more sense for me and the community.

Also it would be great to show the username of the last poster and not the topic starter.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Any idea how to do that?

The users are already yelling because of the wrong date in the widget. They need to know when the last post of this topic was.

Please help.

No answer?

OK, then I will try to fix it by myself.

Could anybody please tell me which file builds the widget?

try to change template 

forums -> front -> widgets >> topicFeed

{{if !empty( $topics ) }}
	<h3 class='ipsWidget_title ipsType_reset'>{$title}</h3>

	{{if $orientation == 'vertical'}}
		<div class='ipsPad_half ipsWidget_inner'>
			<ul class='ipsDataList ipsDataList_reducedSpacing'>
				{{foreach $topics as $topic}}
					<li class='ipsDataItem{{if $topic->unread()}} ipsDataItem_unread{{endif}}{{if $topic->hidden()}} ipsModerated{{endif}}'>
						<div class='ipsDataItem_icon ipsPos_top'>
                        {{if ( $topic->posts - 1 ) === 0}}
                            {template="userPhoto" group="global" app="core" params="$topic->author(), 'tiny'"}
                        {{else}}
                            {template="userPhoto" group="global" app="core" params="$topic->lastCommenter(), 'tiny'"}
                        {{endif}}
						</div>
						<div class='ipsDataItem_main'>
							<div class="ipsCommentCount ipsPos_right {{if ( $topic->posts - 1 ) === 0}}ipsFaded{{endif}}" data-ipsTooltip title='{lang="replies_number" pluralize="$topic->posts - 1"}'>{expression="$topic->posts - 1"}</div>
							<a href="{$topic->url()->setQueryString( 'do', 'getNewComment' )}" title='{lang="view_this_topic" sprintf="$topic->title"}' class='ipsDataItem_title ipsType_break'>{wordbreak="$topic->title"}</a>
							{{if $topic->mapped('featured') || $topic->hidden() === -1 || $topic->hidden() === 1}}
								<span>
									{{if $topic->hidden() === -1}}
										<span class="ipsBadge ipsBadge_icon ipsBadge_small ipsBadge_warning" data-ipsTooltip title='{$topic->hiddenBlurb()}'><i class='fa fa-eye-slash'></i></span>
									{{elseif $topic->hidden() === 1}}
										<span class="ipsBadge ipsBadge_icon ipsBadge_small ipsBadge_warning" data-ipsTooltip title='{lang="pending_approval"}'><i class='fa fa-warning'></i></span>
									{{endif}}
									{{if $topic->mapped('featured')}}
										<span class="ipsBadge ipsBadge_icon ipsBadge_small ipsBadge_positive" data-ipsTooltip title='{lang="featured"}'><i class='fa fa-star'></i></span>
									{{endif}}
								</span>
							{{endif}}
							<br>
                            {{if ( $topic->posts - 1 ) === 0}}
                                <span class='ipsType_light ipsType_small'>{lang="byline_nodate" htmlsprintf="$topic->author()->link()"} &middot; {lang="topic_started_date" htmlsprintf="\IPS\DateTime::ts( $topic->mapped('date') )->html()"}</span>
                            {{else}}
                                <span class='ipsType_light ipsType_small'>{lang="byline" htmlsprintf="$topic->lastCommenter()->link()"} {datetime="$topic->mapped('last_comment')"}</span>
                            {{endif}}
						</div>
					</li>
				{{endforeach}}
			</ul>
		</div>
	{{else}}
		<div class='ipsWidget_inner'>
			<ul class='ipsDataList'>
				{{foreach $topics as $topic}}
					{template="row" group="global" app="forums" location="front" params="NULL, NULL, $topic, FALSE"}
				{{endforeach}}
			</ul>
		</div>
	{{endif}}
{{endif}}

 

did you find it out? got the same problem ....