Lost Posts

[Cathy]

Hi All,
I lose "View new posts" if I go through mail replies first.

[Tracey]

Hi Cathy

Cant solve this one but when i get an email notification from TS saying someone has replied to a thread im watching i delete them i dont open them and i go straight to view post etc................

[Cathy]

Thanks Tracey.

[paddyscar]

Hi Cathy and Tracey:

When I get a notification in my personal e-mail that there has been some activity on a thread I'm watching, I click on the address given in the notice. This takes you straight to the new posting without logging on, so you can view it without it disappearing.

The next time you log on to TS, eventhough you've previously read it from your personal e-mail account offsite, the message will be still be included when you select 'View new postings since your last visit'.

It's the 'logging on' to TS that changes the status of the messages viewed through your TS account.

Frances

[Cathy]

Hi Frances,
thanks for that, but I never log off.

[LesleyB]

Hi Cathy
After 2hrs inactivity you are automatically logged out of TS. AS far as I'm aware it is not possible to stay logged in all the time. ....Just as well, I'd never get anything done!!

Best wishes
Lesley

[AndrewP]

Hi Cathy,

I am presuming that when you say you never log out of TalkingScot, you mean that when you go to the TalkingScot forum, you are automatically logged on. When you have finished viewing TalkingScot at any time and you leave it to visit some othe website, or you close your internet browser program (Internet Explorer or similar) you are logged out of TalkingScot. At that point, the system notes the time and date against your name and holds that until the next time you go to TalkingScot and you log in (automatically in your case). When you are on the first page of the forum, you will see near the top-left of the page the time you logged on, and the time you last logged off. The "show your posts since last visit" command picks up all of the posts that have been made between these times.

So if you get the message saying that you have a PM to read and you click on that you will be taken to the PM page to open that message. Upon exiting the PM page to return to the forum, you should click on the "TalkingScot.com Forum Index" link below the Inbox button. That should take you to the main forum page withoutr exiting TalkingScot and hence keep the last visited time and date correct to the previous visit.

If when you have read your PM(s) you exit using the X button in the far top right, on the blue bar, then you will be logged out of TalkingScot. So if you then log back in, right away or later, the time of last visit will have moved on to the new time of last visit, when you logged and read your PM(s). So the only posts that will show up in the "posts since last visit" will be those since you read your PM. If that was only a minute or two back, then there may be only one or two, or maybe none.

So the important one is that if you want to go from reading PMs to the forum, click on that link to do so. Do not exit and come back in again. That way you will not loose that longer list of post not read.

If however, that does not work, let us know. Also take note of the date and times shown at the top of the forum front page, the times of your current visit, and of your previous visit and let us know that too. That will help us to see if the system logged you out between your PMs and the forum.

The 2 hours that Lesley refers to is if you are logged on to TalkingScot continuously for hours, after 2 hours the system will log you out. That is an automatic part of the forum program that will happen to anyone - Admin Group included.

All the best,

AndrewP

[wini]

Andrew,

I understand what you are saying and I doubt if you can do anything about this viewing a post, reading it and then logging off.

I log on automatically and sometimes during the day, if there is an email saying there is a reply to a thread I am watching I will click on that, read it and immediately log off because I don't have the time .
That means of course I miss the New Postings.

I just solve the problem by going through the index and checking from the last time of log on.

I could solve the problem by not lookingat the emails until I do have time to check them all but I am just naturally nosy and can't help myself.

wini

[AndrewP]

Hi Wini,

You have made the right assumption. If you log on to check one post and you are set to log on automatically (the most convenient way for most people), then after reading that post you exit, you lose the contents of the "posts since last visit" list up to that time.

Another solution to that was told by another TS correspondent recently. She copies a screen-shot of that list to a new Microsoft Word document, which she saves and comes back to later when she has time to read the rest.

So that method is:

• When viewing the "posts since last visit" page:
  
  (1) Scroll the page so that you can see the complete list. If you cannot see the whole list at one time, you will have to repeat this process for each section of the list to copy them all.
  
  (2) On your keyboard, hold <Alt> and <Print Screen> keys down together to capture the screen shot.
  
  (3) Open a new document in Microsoft Word, and paste the screen-shot into there (<Edit> then <Paste>).
  
  (4) Save your new document for later retrieval, and there you have it.
  
  If you don't have Microsoft Word, it should work in other word processor programs and some drawing programs.

Otherwise it is the manual method, of checking the time of last post in each section of the forum and checking each one that has been updated since the previous time you logged on.

All the best,

AndrewP

[mallog]

(2) On your keyboard, hold <Alt> and <Print Screen> keys down together to capture the screen shot.

(3) Open a new document in Microsoft Word, and paste the screen-shot into there (<Edit> then <Paste>).

(AndrewP

I learn something everday ! Thanks andrew I had same problem as Wini