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[MG69]

i would like to suggest that is there a way the forum can track which thread a user has posted in so that he can follow up the thread

there are so many great posts sometime i dun even rem whih of the thread i have participated in....

 

[Giovanni Casanova]

I totally second this if there is a way to do it. I post an awful lot and it does get confusing sometimes to keep up with all the discussions I'm participating in. Thanks, MG.



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[ghost_x01]

I haven't been posting to that many threads lately (pesky work stuff is killing my free time - damn making a living is getting in the way of living) so I don't have a lot of threads to keep track of for now. But to find the ones that I am involved in I just do a search based on my user name.

Two additions I would like to see though (that would also make this a little easier).

1) It would be nice if the search results could be returned (or sorted) from newest to oldest.

2) It would also be nice to be able to search all forums at once (instead of one at a time).

If server side processing time is an issue with letting everyone search every forum at once (all you need is a few people searching every message for the word 'the' to bring everything to a grinding halt). Perhaps a seperate search page that only allows user name searches of all forums would be appropriate. It should keep the bandwidth and server requests down (at least within acceptable levels).

Just my thoughts on the subject.


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[DeepBlue]

Ghost_x01 wrote:

Two additions I would like to see though (that would also make this a little easier).

1) It would be nice if the search results could be returned (or sorted) from newest to oldest.

2) It would also be nice to be able to search all forums at once (instead of one at a time).


I have been looking for something like that too, and here is what I found so far. To do a search for your posts across all forums, do this:

First go to one of your posts and click the "face icon". It's located right after the date and time of your post. The face icon also displays a tool tip if you're using IE and you hover the mouse over it. The tool tip will say:
"click here to see the profile for [your user name]"

After clicking that icon, you'll get a grid displaying your profile information or lack thereof.

Just above the grid in the upper left corner is a link that says:
"Search: All posts by this registered user"

Click that link.

The good news is that it will search all the forums, and it will even sort the results by date for each forum you posted in.

The bad news is it is limited to finding 200 posts per forum, and the biggest problem of all is that there is nothing there (in this view) to tell you that one of those threads got new posts on it since the last time you checked.

Hope that helped.

DeepBlue

 

[ghost_x01]

Thanks DeepBlue, I never noticed that option before. It cuts down on some of the effort of tracking posts.


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[~The_Chosen~]

This is a very DAMN GOOD idea, it would be super-helpful.

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