Show Announcements first as in 2.0.18 version.

warzyd

Does anyone know how to show announcements on list first like before 2.1 version? Now the latest topic always show first but before "Announcement" topics where always first and under them the rest of regular topics where sorted from newest to latest. Do you know if this is possible with 2.1 version? Ive checked probably everything and cant find answer on this questions.

Thanks in case!

peregrine

did you choose "in the category and recent discussions."

warzyd

Yes, i did it for all discussion posts. I got "Announcement" badge next to each topic but when someone add any other regular post, it shows always at the top.

peregrine

it looks like it is a slight bug, the setting doesn't stick when selecting that option and posting a new discussion at the same time

however, if you click on the cogwheel to edit the discussion (announcement) and re-select in the category and recent discussions.

it should stick and stay at the top,

give it a try and see if it works.

warzyd

You're right man It doesnt work from Edit/Start new discussion position. When i choose "in the category and recent discussions." and come back to edit topic, the first box "Dont announce" is checked. So something must be wrong with this section and have no idea why. But as you said, when on posts list i check "Cog" and make it announcement from this section, then it works because all announced topics are on the top. But this is really weird and have no idea why this happen.

Will be great if you know what can be the reason of that but if not, then of course THANK YOU because you helped me a lot

peregrine

when posting a discussion they set the wrong value in the announce column when posting a discussion - it is mistakenly set to 2 when it should be set to 1 in the discussion table.

editing the discussion and aelecting announce in the category and recent discussions. correctly puts a "1" in the announce column.

warzyd

Ohh i understand now. Do you know maybe where in forum files this can be changed from 2 to 1 so from posting topic section this will work as well?

peregrine

the postcontroller.php needs the array swapped

from

     if (C('Vanilla.Categories.Use')) {
             $Result = array_merge($Result, array(
                '2' => '@'.sprintf(T('In <b>%s.</b>'), T('the category')),
                '1' => '@'.sprintf(sprintf(T('In <b>%s</b> and recent discussions.'), T('the category'))),
             ));


to

   if (C('Vanilla.Categories.Use')) {
         $Result = array_merge($Result, array(
           '1' => '@'.sprintf(sprintf(T('In <b>%s</b> and recent discussions.'), T('the category'))),
            '2' => '@'.sprintf(T('In <b>%s.</b>'), T('the category')),

          ));

warzyd

Thanks! You are the best! Now everything works fine