Page links from Topics.

Full Bleed's picture
Full Bleed
November 7, 2007 - 7:29pm
I think it would be nice to be able to goto a page from the topic (the way PhpBB does it.)  The last page almost always hold the newest responses.




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Corjay (not verified)
November 7, 2007 - 8:44pm
Yeah. Bill hasn't been able to find the coding for that anywhere. For now, you can put the last post first so that it's visible when it loads on the first page. The option is under the main post.

Be sure to post future issues in the Support Forum.

Full Bleed's picture
Full Bleed
November 8, 2007 - 2:48am
Corjay wrote:
Yeah. Bill hasn't been able to find the coding for that anywhere. For now, you can put the last post first so that it's visible when it loads on the first page. The option is under the main post.


Good option... but I'm not a fan of reading in reverse.  Hopefully someone will have done or will eventually put out a mod.


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Be sure to post future issues in the Support Forum.


Please feel free to move these posts over there... it just seems to me that these are website issues up for discussion, not things that are inherently "wrong" and worthy of support.  *shrug*

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Corjay (not verified)
November 8, 2007 - 8:03am
Full Bleed wrote:
Corjay wrote:
Yeah. Bill hasn't been able to find the coding for that anywhere. For now, you can put the last post first so that it's visible when it loads on the first page. The option is under the main post.


Good option... but I'm not a fan of reading in reverse. Hopefully someone will have done or will eventually put out a mod.


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Be sure to post future issues in the Support Forum.


Please feel free to move these posts over there... it just seems to me that these are website issues up for discussion, not things that are inherently "wrong" and worthy of support. *shrug*
Oh. Usually things like this are simple feature requests, and certainly reasonable. I wasn't thinking that you might want to discuss it. I've gotten so spoiled with making requests and having them fulfilled.

Which, by the way, this feature has already been requested multiple times. Until Bill finds the code to do it, we can only make due. Believe me, Bill wants to be able to do it.

By the way Bill, you may have to do some of your code mix-matching to come up with a solution. Connect the php coding to the drupal somehow, if you can.

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CleanCutRogue
November 9, 2007 - 12:50am
This is a problem inherent in Drupal - the foundation upon which this site is built.  I am not alone in asking for this feature - and I've tried really hard to find a fix for it myself (there are other places on this site where I found solutions that folks on the Drupal community site don't know a way around).  I'm sorry but this is one feature that I'm not currently able to solve :(!
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Full Bleed
November 9, 2007 - 10:00am
Well, the upside is that it seems like it's not as big an issue as I initially thought since we can click on the "X New" link and it will take us to the correct page to see new messages.

While there are a lot of new mechanics to get up to speed with as a first time Drupal user, it does seem to be a pretty powerful ap.  The more I use it the more I enjoy it.




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Corjay (not verified)
November 9, 2007 - 10:50am
There's an "X New" link? Where?

Bill, couldn't you use that link to forward the page to the last post after posting?

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CleanCutRogue
November 9, 2007 - 1:27pm
Sadly, no. That's the problem: the pagination is performed down-stream of the url construction. It's not possible  without having a crystal ball :(
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Full Bleed
November 9, 2007 - 7:19pm
X New

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Corjay (not verified)
November 10, 2007 - 10:21am
Why can't it create the page before forwarding and then forward you to the post? Can't you add code to wait until the page is created and then determine the new page code?

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CleanCutRogue
November 11, 2007 - 11:28am
Corjay wrote:
Why can't it create the page before forwarding and then forward you to the post? Can't you add code to wait until the page is created and then determine the new page code?
I was trying to do this... I broke the site several times while trying and had to revert.  I'm not sure if this will ever be possible - and if it is, it's going to require a lot of trial & error and testing.  I'm sorry but it's just a limitation we have.  If you change the comment settings to view like 300 comments per page, it'll allow you to link to any comment on any forum topic you want by clicking any "# new" link... but it means you'll have a long page.
3. We wear sungoggles during the day. Not because the sun affects our vision, but when you're cool like us the sun shines all the time.

-top 11 reasons to be a Yazirian, ShadowShack


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Corjay (not verified)
November 11, 2007 - 11:34am
I was thinking of a situation where you could forward to a forward. It would double the transition time, but it might work. You transfer the page address through the first forward, and then generate a new forward with the "#new" target at the end of the address in the second forward. This should allow the page to be created and the "#new" to be generated correctly. Is that possible?

Just a thought.

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CleanCutRogue
November 12, 2007 - 7:24am
Smarter folks than me have tried to figure this out.  :(
3. We wear sungoggles during the day. Not because the sun affects our vision, but when you're cool like us the sun shines all the time.

-top 11 reasons to be a Yazirian, ShadowShack


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Corjay (not verified)
November 12, 2007 - 11:39pm
CleanCutRogue wrote:
Smarter folks than me have tried to figure this out. :(
Come on, Dubia became President. That gives us all hope. Tongue out