Posted by Liam McDermott on December 28, 2007 at 4:43pm
We've got a /tracker menu item to show new forum posts. Great. Only problem is it doesn't show the forum the topic is posted under, my first thought is that this could easily be fixed by using a view instead of the tracker. Problem with this is that views can't show whether there are new posts in a topic. So should I:
- Patch tracker.module to include the category (can't see this getting into Drupal core somehow);
- copy tracker.module and customise it (then hack it every time a new version of Drupal is released: yuk);
- wait for the next version of Views.module (does it have support for showing the number of new posts in a topic?);
None of these options seem good to me, unless someone knows a way a patch could be submitted to the tracker.module which would actually get committed. Does anyone have any suggestions, and has anyone else run into the same problem?
Thank you in advance for any help received! :)
Comments
Extended Tracker
I did see the Extended Tracker module, but that only displays forums as tabs. It's not what we're looking for at all, the information needs to be listed in the topic table.
Option 3
Extend views to allow it to see if a topic is new or not.
Well, I could do this if
Well, I could do this if Views didn't already do it.
I am such an idiot sometimes, just didn't see the 'with new' drop-down. Views is one heck of a module though, the only limitation is my eyesight/intelligence. Sorry for wasting your time.
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Heh, I was going to mention that but I see you found it already. Don't feel bad. That screen is pretty complicated. It's easy to miss options. As long as I've been using views, there's still things I don't know how to do just in the UI and that's not even getting into theming...
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