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Ben Panter
08-08-2007, 16:24
Hi Folks,

Not something that will be important to many I feel, but thanks to Tim over on DigiGreen (http://www.digigreen.net/) I've found a way to exclude particular forums from popping up when you click on new posts. It involves a little bit of work to set up, but if you find that you would like to not get updates from a particular forum when you browse it might be useful. Here's how it works:

When you click "today's posts", it loads the following page:

http://www.bsacforum.co.uk/forums/search.php?do=getdaily

which then directs you to a search results page.

If you'd like to avoid a particular forum, for example "Medical Discussions", you can exclude it from the search by using the following:

http://www.bsacforum.co.uk/forums/search.php?do=getdaily&exclude=9

Where 9 is the number of that forum found by hovering over the link to that forum on this (http://www.bsacforum.co.uk/forums) page.

If you'd like to exclude more forums, simply add more numbers, separated by commas, to the URL.

http://www.bsacforum.co.uk/forums/search.php?do=getdaily&exclude=6,9,8,26

When you've made a URL like this manually add it as a bookmark in your browser and you're away.

If you would prefer to only see new posts, then change getdaily to getnew in the url, hence:

http://www.bsacforum.co.uk/forums/search.php?do=getnew&exclude=6,9,8,26

Clicking 'bookmark this page' will not work, as that is then a temporary results page not the query page

Hope that's helpful,

Ben

Ben Panter
12-08-2007, 22:17
...more prodding, and there is also an 'include' option, which will include rather than exclude fora. So if you only want forums 6, 9, 8 & 26 you can type:

http://www.bsacforum.co.uk/forums/search.php?do=getdaily&include=6,9,8,26

cheers,

Ben

IainC
13-08-2007, 11:14
Thanks Ben,

Anthoher forum I use has mark thread read/ignore thread options for each thread, which I found useful. Not sure if anyone would consider coding that up here - they used the same forum software I think?

IainC

Janos
14-08-2007, 00:01
You can also use &days=2 to return (say) 2 days worth of results

Janos