Tracking my own threads -- how to sort by date?

[Kevin_Price]

Simple question, but I haven't figured out an answer.  Hoping there is one...

I'd like to be able to find any threads I've been involved in AND then sort them based on most recent activity by anyone in the thread.  When I go to my "Tracker" page, the list is sorted some other way, so I often miss cases where someone has recently posted to a thread that had been inactive for a while.

It'd also be nice to filter out multiple hits to different posts in the same thread.

Any simple solutions?

-Kevin P.

[Laura F.]

Hi Kevin,

It doesn't look like we have a lot of options in terms of the tracker functionality.  I agree that being able to sort by recent activity would be nice and will add it to our list of suggestions that I send to our vendor.  I think the issue with multiple hits to different posts in the same thread has manifested itself in other areas, especially when searching the forums and we have previously given feedback regarding this.  I think there are a few ways that they could change the way this works to make it easier to use, but I don't know of any upcoming changes.

Thanks for the feedback!

Laura
Web Support & Operations

[tst]

This issue has been addressed more than once before. Personally, I think that the prefered solution would be to have a section in the main page of the forums with links to threads the user replied to and which have new posts. This section will link to threads of any board and will keep displaying the links until there are no new posts in those threads.

I would expect that this should be relatively easy to implement (assuming the Lithium DB is designed properly). Of course, that would require a change to the software and I have no idea how long Lithium's release cycles are.

[Ben]

Hi Laura,

If you are passing along change requests then what would help me, would be able to view MY tracker were

0) only the threads (not each reply) are listed.

1) They are sorted by the time of the most recent update (regardless of who made the post) including new ratings.

2) The indicated ratings takes into acount only the stars for my replies not the whole thread.

Why?

With 44 screens to go through, any new posts to thread that are more than 100 back just don't get my attention.

Display based on threads would reduce the 44 pages of replies to about 10 (I guess).

I see new stars show up in my count and can seldom determine which replies recieved the ratings, good or bad.

Ben

[Ben]

Bump!

Let's see if this motivates the providers.

AS far as tracking updates to my threads goes, "The old Exchange did a lot better job!"

Ben

[Laura F.]

Hi Ben,

I previously sent Lithium a list of things we would like improved about the tracker so that they would consider it for future versions of their product.  I don't think they realized how heavily it is used by our community members, so I continue to stress this issue when the opportunity presents itself.

Thanks for the reminder 

Laura

[Ben]

"...when the opportunity presents itself. "

Could one of your active contributors complaining count as an "opportunity"?

Ben