Forums, postings and threads
Click on the Forum title, e.g. on the "Forums by Category" page,
to read a sequence of postings to the Forum and its threads all in one page.
If you are only interested in one thread or the thread following a specific
posting, click the thread or the posting, which takes you to a smaller page,
which contains only the part you are interested in and may be easier to
navigate.
- Layout of the posting thread(s)
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The posting threads can be shown with/without the text of the postings
("Inline depth"). In addition the depth of the thread can
be controlled ("Outline depth"). For both cases several
values are provided, which can be toggled. Note that the displayed
values are those, which can be chosen, they do not
correspond to the actual display status of the thread(s).
- Add message
- Add a new posting thread to this Forum
- Show subscribers
- Click "Show subscribers" to get the List of all
subscribers, who receive e-mail from postings to this Forum,
if they have not explictly unsubscribed from a posting thread.
This includes:
- Subscribers to the forum
- Explicit subscribers to the posting or any of its ancestors
- The author of the posting (if he has not unsubscribed)
- The authors of any ancestor posting (if they have not unsubscribed)
- Some browsers display old pages from the cache
- Some browsers (e.g. Firefox) display a page from the cache even though the page has been updated. As a result, one may not get the latest messages in the forum's outline or the logon ID of the previous session appears on the upper right corner. If one suspects that he or she does not get the latest content of a page, try clearing up the personal data from the browser's cache as the following:
- Tools -> Clear Private Data -> Clear Private Data (from browser Firefox)
- Tools -> Delete Private Data (from browser Opera)
- then reflesh the current page to get the latest content.
- Details on "Inline depth" and "Outline depth"
- Threads and the follow-up messages are numbered. There is one
line per posting, normally starting with the posting number.
The URLs of a posting and its responses reflect the depth of the
follow-up postings. Watch the URLs to see how this is done.
Depending on the chosen display options, the thread-display may
be incomplete; the number of messages at the next level is,
however, displayed, e.g. "…3 message(s)".
You may not see all contributors unless you choose "All".
Messages are "chained" if there are only
replies at the first level, i.e. 1/1.html, 1/1/1.html etc.
In case of "chained" messages the message
number is replaced by the
icon
and there is no indentation.
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Inline: Display the subject line only or also the text of the posting(s); for the choice "All" the "Outline" choices are switched off.
| Argument | Default value | Alternative |
| Comment |
| 1 |
0 |
1 |
| no text / full text of posting |
| 2 |
1 |
All |
| text for level 1 only / text for All postings |
-
Outline: Choose the depth of the posting thread,
successive toggle controls provide increasing detail.
| Argument | Default value | Alternative |
| Comment |
| 1 | 2 | 1 |
| 2 levels / 1 level (original posting) |
| 2 | 3 | 2 |
| 3 levels / 2 levels |
| 3 | 3 | All |
| 3 levels / all levels (all postings) |
