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How can I view all unread posts?

I'm looking to display all unread posts at the top of my Home Page similar to how it was previously where the thread title is in bold if unread. I like the activity stream, but it doesn't indicate to me whether or not I have read the posts or not.  I have been messing around with adding forum thread lists to my homepage, but it seems I can only get it setup to display unread posts for one sub forum per widget. I don't really want to have to have 4+ thread lists on my homepage to see the unread in each sub forum, I would like to see all unread posts in one. Thanks

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  • The default thread list in the right column is set to show only unread threads site wide. To recreate that thread list, leave the specified forum blank and check the box to include sub-groups/forums. This will pull everything from every forum that you have access to read. You can then filter that list to only unread posts.

    If you wanted to narrow the list to only the forums that you "care" about, you will need to configure specific widgets for each break point (i.e: one list for specifically Eos Family, one list for Beta Sites that includes sub-groups/forums, etc...)

  • in reply to starksk

    Kirk,

    The default list does not show every new unread post. Here is what I see in the default thread list:

    And here are the first few posts in the Activity Stream, two of which I have not read.

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  • in reply to bosox242

    And here is what I see when I add a widget and filter to see only unread. I should be seeing almost all of today's posts since I haven't looked at many of them, yet the first unread I see is from November 2013.

  • in reply to bosox242
    One thing I've noticed with forum thread list set to unread: if I read a post by clicking on an entry in the notification overlay, it doesn't disappear from the forum thread list for unread posts. Have to open it from there again
  • in reply to ueliriegg

    ueliriegg said:
    One thing I've noticed with forum thread list set to unread: if I read a post by clicking on an entry in the notification overlay, it doesn't disappear from the forum thread list for unread posts. Have to open it from there again

    Ueli, what are you referring to when you say the notification overlay?

  • in reply to ueliriegg
    Watch out, the widget sorts sticky posts first, just like they are listed first in the subforums. You can recognize them by a slightly grey background. Very slightly. Almost... I first had to go to all forums and Mark all read, before it started to make sense
  • in reply to ueliriegg
    Didn't know what to call it... At the top right I get a red number showing how many new notifications I have, a bit like Facebook. When I click on it I get a list, that's what I meant
  • in reply to ueliriegg
    Ah ha, maybe that is the issue. Let me go mark all unread and see if that fixes my situation.
  • in reply to ueliriegg

    ueliriegg said:
    Watch out, the widget sorts sticky posts first, just like they are listed first in the subforums. You can recognize them by a slightly grey background. Very slightly. Almost... I first had to go to all forums and Mark all read, before it started to make sense

     
    When we deploy the fix for the size of the posts, we'll also be changing that sticky post to be a more distinguishable light blue(ish) color to make it easier to know that threads are sticky. Also, we'll be changing the font color of unread posts to help identify them from the non-bold read posts.
     
    Because of the migration, every thread was technically unread in the new site. New items have a time out of about 7 days or so, so in the next few days, those threads should be marking themselves as read automatically.
  • in reply to bosox242

    Well, I won't be sure if doing the "mark all read" thing worked until someone posts a new post, but now I have another issue.

    After marking all forums read, setting up a new Forum Thread List Widget and setting that show only unread, I can't see any posts in any forum. When I click a sub forum I get this message "There are no posts to show. This could be because there are no posts in this forum or due to a filter. " I've tried changing the filter in the sub forum I'm in, I deleted the widget and reverted back to default on my home page, and I've signed off and signed back in, yet I still can't see posts when I click on a sub forum. It seems I globally set every forum to only show unread. I hope it's just me being dense.

  • in reply to bosox242

    If you marked all as read, you then would have no unread posts in any forums so the message you are seeing would be correct.

    At the top of each forum thread list, you should have the filter dropdown to be able to change what you want to see. It would default to unread, but should allow you to change it to any other filter type.

    Does that dropdown appear/work?

  • in reply to starksk

    Yeah I saw that I could change the filter and I tried to. It seems to be working now, but it definitely wasn't working when I tried. Maybe my work network was being wacky and the page wasn't refreshing.  Thanks for the assistance.

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