Deskpilot Posted October 16, 2008 Posted October 16, 2008 Hey guys, Every day I open the latest mail page and what do I see....a bl**dy long list of international or Australian Aviation new events. Hidden amongst it are the few posts that I really want to read. Can we please have a separate, one click, folder for the Av News type posts, then those who really want to read it can have as much as they want, hidden in that folder. Ian, you know what I'm saying? Anybody else upset with the daily search. I believe this problem has been raised before. Apart from that, the site is going great.
Admin Posted October 16, 2008 Posted October 16, 2008 If I click on "New Posts" on the blue horizontal menu I don't get any of the news items listed as they have been removed from there some time ago. Can you tell me what you are doing, clicking etc so I can find out what is happening - there shouldn't be any news items listed and they are only searchable from within the news forums themselves.
Captain Posted October 16, 2008 Posted October 16, 2008 Ian I get the same as Doug. Or I do occasionally. My 1st port of call in the forums each day is to click on "New Posts" and sometimes it is swamped with the news items to which Doug refers. From memory, yesterday morning was particularly bad. Have just checked it again before posting this and they all appear to have gone from the New Posts list. Looks like an intermittent issue .... which are always the most fun .... but it does (sometimes) happen as Doug described. Regards Le Crappeee
Deskpilot Posted October 16, 2008 Author Posted October 16, 2008 Ian, I have an icon on my desktop which takes me straight to 'Latest Posts'. Now I may have renamed it, can't remember. As 'Le Crappeee' pointed out, yesterday was bad but for me, so was this morning, perhaps 20 posts on news alone. How should I replace my d/t icon to new posts only, can't see a 'Send to d/t...' tag anywhere.
slartibartfast Posted October 16, 2008 Posted October 16, 2008 If your shortcut is http://www.recreationalflying.com/forum/search.php?do=getnew just change it to : http://www.recreationalflying.com/forum/search.php?do=getnew&exclude=33,89 The exclude= on the end tells the engine to ignore new posts in the 2 News fora. That should fix your problem. Cheers, Ross
skeptic36 Posted October 16, 2008 Posted October 16, 2008 Doug if you right click on New Posts you will get a menu with 1 item being "copy shortcut" click on that then go to your desk top and right click again and you get an option to "paste shortcut" Hope that helps Regards Bill
Admin Posted October 16, 2008 Posted October 16, 2008 Ok All I only have the evenings and very early mornings to do any work on the site so things are now progressing slowly and if I run out of time they have to stay in limbo until the next moment I can get. I have been trying to clean up the news area and on Tuesday night I started splitting the news and adding more news resources. On Wed morning I realised that I hadn't included an "exclude" for the International News forum in the "New Posts". This is why you are thinking it is intermittent Cap't. The "Exclude" command of both the Aust News and the International News forums has now been added to both the "New Posts" and the "Today's Posts" buttons so you won't see the news items included when you manually click either of these to get the latest or today's posts. Some users have created a shortcut to the latest posts on their own PC. This shortcut would now NOT include the "Exclude" command. To continue using your shortcut you will need to update it to: http://www.recreationalflying.com/forum/search.php?do=getnew&exclude=33,89 The problem with using a shortcut is that if anything changes here then your shortcut may become incorrect and hence cause problems such as what has happened. If you do ever find an issue then please let me know so I can assist you to fix it. Hope this helps! PS - I am still tinkering with the news items but it is mainly in the formatting etc.
Admin Posted October 16, 2008 Posted October 16, 2008 Problem with working is that I got half the post typed and had to go away to a meeting and when I came back, finished the post and submitted it - I can now see others have posted in that time - thanks guys!
Captain Posted October 16, 2008 Posted October 16, 2008 Ian & Ross You buggers that run this forum are brilliant. Thanks again for your work for us all. Regards Crappy
Geoff Posted October 16, 2008 Posted October 16, 2008 Aie:thumb_up: Aie :thumb_up: me too Crappy:im with stupid:
Chird65 Posted October 16, 2008 Posted October 16, 2008 Ian, having just started a new role I concur with finding time to do anything. But given I had suggested the exclude of news a while ago and you did it without issue all i can say is
Deskpilot Posted October 16, 2008 Author Posted October 16, 2008 Skeptic, I wish it was that easy, but it don't work for me. Ian, I can bookmark the link, but how can I turn that into a d/t icon. (I'm a lazy bugger)
Deskpilot Posted October 16, 2008 Author Posted October 16, 2008 OK Guys, I've done it. Thanks for you input.
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