Not logged in. · Lost password · Register
Forum: Support › Ideas and suggestions RSS
Watch categories
jense 2010-04-23, 16:43 #1
Member since Nov 2006 · 327 posts · Location: Dortmund
Group memberships: Members
Show profile · Link to this post
Subject: Watch categories
Hi Yves,

is it possible to extend the 'watch topics' function to categories (in a simple way, i.e. can I just add this to the options menu – in theory they are just forums, aren't they?)

Cheers, jense
Alala, Alala, Gimme three wishes - CSS
Avatar
Yves (Administrator) 2010-04-23, 17:17 #2
User title: UNB developer & webmaster
Member since Jan 2004 · 3855 posts · Location: Erlangen, Germany
Group memberships: Administrators, Members
Show profile · Link to this post
They are forums, but topics are contained in the sub-forums. Then the notification feature needed to be recursive, which is the actual work for this, and you may get multiple notifications if you subscribe to a category and at the same time to a sub-forum of it.
♪ ...nanananah, all in all we’re just brilliant thieves, nanananah... ♪♬
jense 2010-04-23, 17:34 #3
Member since Nov 2006 · 327 posts · Location: Dortmund
Group memberships: Members
Show profile · Link to this post
What is the difference to forums then? It's already possible to subscribe to complete forums with subforums and topics included without double notifications (at least, AFAICS)...
Alala, Alala, Gimme three wishes - CSS
Avatar
Yves (Administrator) 2010-04-23, 18:12 #4
User title: UNB developer & webmaster
Member since Jan 2004 · 3855 posts · Location: Erlangen, Germany
Group memberships: Administrators, Members
Show profile · Link to this post
All right, I'll have a closer look at it then.
♪ ...nanananah, all in all we’re just brilliant thieves, nanananah... ♪♬
Avatar
Yves (Administrator) 2010-05-16, 12:20 #5
User title: UNB developer & webmaster
Member since Jan 2004 · 3855 posts · Location: Erlangen, Germany
Group memberships: Administrators, Members
Show profile · Link to this post
Forum notifications are now (in the next release) forum-recursive, ie you get notifications for all subforums of a forum or category.

But there cannot be notification settings on a category because the basic UI is not available. It's only available underneath thread lists, which cannot exist in a category, sorry.
♪ ...nanananah, all in all we’re just brilliant thieves, nanananah... ♪♬
This post was edited 2 times, last on 2010-05-17, 20:10 by Yves.
jense 2010-05-16, 22:19 #6
Member since Nov 2006 · 327 posts · Location: Dortmund
Group memberships: Members
Show profile · Link to this post
Yay! :)

Hm, how do recursive notifications for a category work if they cannot be set?
Alala, Alala, Gimme three wishes - CSS
Avatar
Yves (Administrator) 2010-05-17, 18:26 #7
User title: UNB developer & webmaster
Member since Jan 2004 · 3855 posts · Location: Erlangen, Germany
Group memberships: Administrators, Members
Show profile · Link to this post
They don't. That's the point.
♪ ...nanananah, all in all we’re just brilliant thieves, nanananah... ♪♬
jense 2010-05-17, 20:06 #8
Member since Nov 2006 · 327 posts · Location: Dortmund
Group memberships: Members
Show profile · Link to this post
In reply to post #5
Quote by Yves on 2010-05-16, 12:20:
Forum notifications are now (in the next release) forum-recursive, ie you get notifications for all subforums of a forum or category.
Hm...? Me, Forest and trees? ;)
Alala, Alala, Gimme three wishes - CSS
Avatar
Yves (Administrator) 2010-05-17, 20:12 #9
User title: UNB developer & webmaster
Member since Jan 2004 · 3855 posts · Location: Erlangen, Germany
Group memberships: Administrators, Members
Show profile · Link to this post
It went like this: Implement partially, reply, complete implementation, figure it doesn't work, edit reply but only partially. So notifications are recursive but you cannot use a category as a "recursion root" because the UI (the templates structure) doesn't provide simple means of adding a switch for it. It's grown too complex... :-(
♪ ...nanananah, all in all we’re just brilliant thieves, nanananah... ♪♬
jense 2010-05-17, 20:29 #10
Member since Nov 2006 · 327 posts · Location: Dortmund
Group memberships: Members
Show profile · Link to this post
Quote by Yves:
[...] but you cannot use a category as a "recursion root" because the UI (the templates structure) doesn't provide simple means of adding a switch for it. It's grown too complex... :-(
Hm, so it does not make any sense that I have a look at it (if I had too much time)? – or – The backend is ready?
Alala, Alala, Gimme three wishes - CSS
Avatar
Yves (Administrator) 2010-05-17, 22:41 #11
User title: UNB developer & webmaster
Member since Jan 2004 · 3855 posts · Location: Erlangen, Germany
Group memberships: Administrators, Members
Show profile · Link to this post
Back-end should be ready. It's just that the notification options are only present in the threadlist template which is never shown in a category because a category differs from a forum in that it doesn't allow threads directly in it. That template and the relating template-controlling code needs to be extended I guess. If you'd like to try, please go ahead. I'm not touching it for now. :)
♪ ...nanananah, all in all we’re just brilliant thieves, nanananah... ♪♬
Close Smaller – Larger + Reply to this post:
Verification code: VeriCode Please enter the word from the image into the text field below. (Type the letters only, lower case is okay.)
Smileys: :-) ;-) :-D :-p :blush: :cool: :rolleyes: :huh: :-/ <_< :-( :'( :#: :scared: 8-( :nuts: :-O
Special characters:

Go to forum
This board is powered by the Unclassified NewsBoard software, 20120620-dev, © 2003-2011 by Yves Goergen
Page created in 178.9 ms (124.7 ms) · 112 database queries in 121.4 ms
Current time: 2013-05-22, 18:45:44 (UTC +02:00)