Reset User's "Topics Read / Unread"

[Frank S. Hagan]

I have a user who would like to reset his history of topics he has read in a certain forum. Is there a way to do this, perhaps in the database?

[Miss_B]

10 hours ago, Frank S. Hagan said:

I have a user who would like to reset his history of topics he has read in a certain forum. Is there a way to do this, perhaps in the database?

To resest how? Can you pplease elaborate a little more?

[Frank S. Hagan]

16 hours ago, Miss_B said:

To resest how? Can you pplease elaborate a little more?

He would like to clear all of his read pointers, so that the forum appears to him just like it would to a new sign up.

He actually accomplished this by creating another username and logging in with it.

[Dean_]

1 hour ago, Frank S. Hagan said:

He would like to clear all of his read pointers, so that the forum appears to him just like it would to a new sign up.

He actually accomplished this by creating another username and logging in with it.

This is a feature, and you shouldn't really let people make more then one account.

Tell him to access any category he wants to mark.

So for instance, I can go to Feedback and Information category and hover my mouse over the forum icon of 'Product Guidance' and this would mark all topics as read.

[Morrigan]

@Frank S. Hagan There is no way to do that by default. You would need to ask a dev to create a plugin or app for you to be able to mark things as unread.

Its a little on the complicated side because there are levels to the unread stuff (like last unread post or the whole topic etc) so I recommend asking a dev for a quote on what you want.

[Frank S. Hagan]

On 10/30/2020 at 11:00 AM, Dean_ said:

This is a feature, and you shouldn't really let people make more then one account.

Tell him to access any category he wants to mark.

So for instance, I can go to Feedback and Information category and hover my mouse over the forum icon of 'Product Guidance' and this would mark all topics as read.

You misunderstand. He wants them all set to "unread", not "read".

On 10/30/2020 at 11:35 AM, Morrigan said:

@Frank S. Hagan There is no way to do that by default. You would need to ask a dev to create a plugin or app for you to be able to mark things as unread.

Its a little on the complicated side because there are levels to the unread stuff (like last unread post or the whole topic etc) so I recommend asking a dev for a quote on what you want.

Thanks, that makes sense. I was hoping maybe a single forum pointer in the database, but I see how it could be more complex than that now that you mention it.

[Dean_]

18 hours ago, Frank S. Hagan said:

You misunderstand. He wants them all set to "unread", not "read".

Indeed I did, sorry about that!