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  1. Nov 12th, 2009, 09:14 AM #1
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    Resolved [RESOLVED] New posts button

    Is it possible to limit the forums that the new posts button searches. I think I am getting all of them and I just can't keep up.
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  2. Nov 12th, 2009, 09:42 AM #2
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    Re: New posts button

    I'm afraid not, but you can open a forum you don't want to see, and click "Forum tools" -> "Mark this forum read".

    You can do it with bookmarks too, so this: http://www.vbforums.com/forumdisplay.php?do=markread&f=23
    ...will mark the "Other Languages" forum (and its subforums) as read.

    You can find the values to use instead of 23 in the links on our front page.



    You can also do the equivalent of New Posts for just one forum like this (VB6 forum):
    http://www.vbforums.com/search.php?do=getnew&f=1
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    Re: New posts button

    Thanks mate. I have been trying the first idea so far but I just cannot keep up. This is a very busy forum. The second one would be good for a browser button and I should be able to put multiple forums in there too.

    Make a nice suggestion for vbulletin though
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  4. Nov 12th, 2009, 12:17 PM #4
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    Re: New posts button

    It would be useful, but I have no idea how it would be implemented (you'd need a way to specify forums etc). Feel free to suggest it to vBulletin tho, their forums have an area for doing that.


    If the second method I showed supported multiple forums it would be good, but I haven't found a way to do it.


    Note that a simple way to do the first method for multiple forums would be to make an HTML file containing something like this:
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    <html>
<frameset>
    <frame src="http://www.vbforums.com/forumdisplay.php?do=markread&f=23">
    <frame src="http://www.vbforums.com/forumdisplay.php?do=markread&f=24">
</frameset>
</html>
    ..you can add as many "<frame" lines as needed.
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    Re: New posts button

    Hate to break it you Si, but that HTML code didn't work. At least not for me in Firefox 3.5 or IE7.

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    Re: New posts button

    Ah... I took it from a page I use for something else, but it seems that I stripped out too much.

    Based on a quick look at http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_frameset.asp , it seems that you need to specify the amount of rows or columns, eg:
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    <frameset rows="*,*,*">
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    Re: New posts button

    Sorry to necro this thread people but I have finaly figured out how to do this. Much hair loss and an inescapable need for sedatives later. Here is ...

    http://www.vbforums.com//search.php?...&include=1,2,3
    http://www.vbforums.com//search.php?do=getnew&include=1,2,3
    Where 1,2,3 are the forum ID's of the ones you want included. There is also an exclude option if you just want to get rid of a few. Same format, just the opposite way around.

    Unfortunately the front page no longer gives the forum ID's, you get a "Double click this to mark the forum read" so you will have to manually navigate to get the forum ID's of each one you want. That is unless a very kind Admin can come up with a list for us.

    Now should I write some instructions on how to add this to a browser button or is everybody OK with that bit?

    Enjoy
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    Re: New posts button

    Thanks for sharing, I'm sure people will find it useful.
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    Dont include the spaces. I had to use them to get around the forum borking the URL. Link works though.
    We have NoParse tags for that kind of thing.
    Unfortunately the front page no longer gives the forum ID's, you get a "Double click this to mark the forum read"
    You seem to be looking in the wrong place... just hover over the forum name and look in the statusbar ("Visual Basic .NET" shows http://www.vbforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=25 ).

    Now should I write some instructions on how to add this to a browser button or is everybody OK with that bit?
    Adding it to a bookmark/favourite is easy enough, so it probably isn't worth the effort.
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    Re: [RESOLVED] New posts button

    Wanted to add my thanks. Definitely helpful.
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