[RandyG]

Hiya Mike and/or Candy!

I'm wondering if ti would be possible to do something. I usually spend 1-3 hours on the site, and start by coming into the site form the links in email. Sometimes, I get dug into replying, before I hit the New Posts link. By the time I do hit the link, maybe 5-15 minutes later, I end up only getting new posts from when I originally logged on.

I brought this up in a post a long while back, but I don't think there was any resolution to it.

Seems that a server refresh at your end recognises me logged in, and decides that the next time I hit the New posts, it doesn't see that i really mean from the day before.


OK, so on to my suggestion . . .

I find it a real hassle to manually go into each and every forum and check the latest postings from the previous day, which is why I like the New Post link so much.

Is there any search we can perform that would allow us to duplicate this, but not based on cookies or logged in info?

Like our existing Search facility, which you can select time frame since Yesterday, but it will not allow you to bring up all mails posted, as you have to input at least 3 characters. I even tried to "fool" the search restrictions by using ***** but you were too smart for that. Mike!

Anyway, to sum it up, I would like a catch all search feature that would find every thread or post within a specified time range. We could limit it to 1 or 2 days, as the people who would mainly use this facility are people like me, who spend way too much of their sad lives in front of a computer, and here at Home-away-from-home!

Whaddaya think?

[Davey7549]

Randy
I have the same situation since I use new posts in the same manner and usually enter via an E-mail. My work around is logging off, navigating to new posts which picks up all and then to forum for sign-in. After this procedure the back button drop contains the search results with all prior active threads and is maintained through F5.

Dave

[RandyG]

I'll give that a try next time, thanx Dave.

[mishkan]

Maybe put links like the following on the forums home page? Of course, changing the domain part.

< a href="http://www.mydomain.com/forums/search.php?action=getdaily&days=3&s=$session[sessionhash]" target="_blank">View Latest Posts - 3 Days< /a>

< a href="http://www.mydomain.com/forums/search.php?action=getdaily&days=2&s=$session[sessionhash]" target="_blank">View Latest Posts - 2 Days< /a>

< a href="http://www.mydomain.com/forums/search.php?action=getdaily&days=1&s=$session[sessionhash]" target="_blank">View Latest Posts - 1 Day< /a>

[RandyG]

mishkan - that's sorta what I was looking for.

I tried the method Dave suggested, and is great, if you only miss the last 24 hours. However, if you have further back to go, like Saturday Morning, then you have to go trawling manually through the lists.

For instance, I logged onto the boards last night about 20:50, but could only stay on for about 20 mins, so could not get through all 13 pages that had accumulated in the New Posts search. I log on this morning, thinking I would give Dave's option a try, so I logged off, and looked for the New Posts link. It wasn't there, but instead had some "See today's active posts" link! I clicked it, and, of course I only got the ones from the last 24 hours. I had even tried my link to TSG ( http://forums.techguy.org/search.php?s=&action=getnew ), which is the New Posts link, but it came back with the search found. That's because my cookies were cleared, and couldn't match the search criteria.

Now, knowing that the logged off New Posts link is a search of all threads over the last day, I know it is possible to have it for the last 2-5 days, just a matter of changing the parameters. However, I wouldn't like to log off to use it.