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Mark as unread (not read)

KrakKrak New
edited December 2007 in Vanilla 1.0 Help
Mark a topic as unread. What do you think? I'd like it. I use the bookmark feature to mark certain posts of interest, but there is a limit... and I like to keep those as my "special" posts. Being able to mark a post as unread would be great. Say you read a post, and want to reply, but dont have the time at the moment. I've done that a few times, but forgot all about it. If I could mark it as unread, next visit I would see it highlighted, and go "oh yeah". What do you think? How easy do you think that would be to do?

Comments

  • the alohathe aloha
    i like this idea very much. i know others would use it extensively, and i would from time after time.
  • MinisweeperMinisweeper New
    Yeah - i tossed it in the pan a while ago. It would be good and not atall difficult. I'd even suggest it as core.
  • the alohathe aloha
    i concur.
  • BenBen
    ditto.
  • stuartstuart
    moi aussi.
  • gigingergiginger New
    Sounds like a good feature to me. I'm game.
  • lechlech ✭
    /me marks this post as "read"
  • nathannathan
    +1 from me. I could only see a few instances where I would use it myself, but I am sure it would come in handy for other people.
  • KrakKrak New
    I was going to try and tackle this, since it seemed easy. But after digging in the Vanilla code, I'm at a loss. This is not the "typical" php code. I don't quite understand it. I found the areas in the files that do the DiscussionWatch stuff (I think). And I know what SQL table gets edited and so forth. But I really have no idea how to move forward with this. If it was the typical php code I could probably do it, but this stuff, it's too clean and tidy. :( I think I might just have to leave the Vanilla extension coding up to you guys.
  • MinisweeperMinisweeper New
    I think all you'd need to do is make an extension which added a button to the control panel which then ran a sql query to remove this discussion/user id combo from the table. The first part is simple, and the second in theory, but i'm not sure how mark deals with sql queries...
  • MySchizoBuddyMySchizoBuddy
    what if you come back and that post is on the secons page and you never see it, where will "Oh yeah" come from then
  • KrakKrak New
    edited December 2007
    Well I always go through the pages till I come across discussions I have already read.

    (Congrats on bringing a 2 year old post back to life.)
  • AntonimoAntonimo ✭
    (Bringing a two year old post back to life again after another two years!)

    Did anybody get anywhere with this?

    Could the entire discussion be marked as unread?
  • KrakKrak New
    Wow, and what are the chances that I log in today? Haven't been here in a while, see a new site, and a revived post!

    Coincidence? I think not.
  • MarkMark Vanilla Staff
    In Vanilla 2 this is super-duper easy. The user/discussion relationship is stored in the GDN_UserDiscussion table. If you want a discussion to be marked unread for a specific user, just update that table to CountComments = 0 for that UserID & DiscussionID.
  • lucluc ✭✭
    As it was super-duper easy on vanilla2, I thought I'd have a go : http://vanillaforums.org/addon/503/unreaddiscussion

    But, it was not so easy for me to create the plugin :). The SQL part was, clearly, the easiest though, thanks to the info from @Mark.
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