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Set homepage as unread discussions

HotBlackHotBlack New
edited April 2012 in Vanilla 2.0 - 2.8

Is there a way to set the homepage of the forum to the unread discussions view. That is, in a standard installation, set the homepage to discussions?unread?

I tried setting the address in "Enter the url to the page you would like to use as your homepage" field of the homepage settings in the dashboard. I got a 'page not found' page when going to the homepage. I also tried creating a route to discussions?unread, but was not able to load it.

What I want to do is make the first page that appears, when the forum is loaded and a user is logged in, to be the unread discussions of that user.

Great plugin by the way, makes the list of discussions much more manageable.

Best Answer

  • peregrineperegrine MVP
    edited April 2012 Answer ✓

    HotBlack said:
    Yes, my best option seems to be to set the toggle button to work in reverse. I am also working on styling the button so that it looks different when on or off.
    Shall I post my changes here?>

    Absolutely. I'm sure others will appreciate.

    I may not provide the completed solution you might desire, but I do try to provide honest suggestions to help you solve your issue.

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  • 422422 MVP

    How would a user then keep tabs on their active threads?

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  • HotBlackHotBlack New

    They would simply click on the top level menu where there would still be the "old" discussions entry and by using the categories panel.

  • peregrineperegrine MVP
    edited April 2012

    right now - there are two options.

    tell your users to bookmark it
    http://"yourhost"/vanilla/discussions?unread

    or go through the arduous task of clicking once.

    ... either the toggle button. or clicking unread from the menu.

    not too onerous I hope.

    I personally don't know what file after index.php and bootstrap sends it to discussions, maybe somebody will give you a configuration option for config.php - if there is one.

    I may not provide the completed solution you might desire, but I do try to provide honest suggestions to help you solve your issue.

  • HotBlackHotBlack New

    Yes, my best option seems to be to set the toggle button to work in reverse. I am also working on styling the button so that it looks different when on or off.
    Shall I post my changes here?

  • peregrineperegrine MVP
    edited April 2012 Answer ✓

    HotBlack said:
    Yes, my best option seems to be to set the toggle button to work in reverse. I am also working on styling the button so that it looks different when on or off.
    Shall I post my changes here?>

    Absolutely. I'm sure others will appreciate.

    I may not provide the completed solution you might desire, but I do try to provide honest suggestions to help you solve your issue.

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