Finding my threads

By joe lombardo on 2 Sep 2003 at 22:24 UTC

When I visit drupal.org, I first want to visit discussions in which I've participated in the past to make sure someone isn't waiting for a response. I usually accomplish this by remembering where I posted, and navigating back to my post. Today I realized that I could choose "edit account" and then "view user information" and then "view recent posts" to see a recent history of my postings. This is very handy, but is unfortunately buried. It would be nice if this link were in a more prominent place. Or if there is a 'tracker box' that could be implemented.

Cheers,
- Joe

Comments

where

moshe weitzman commented 3 September 2003 at 03:35

where else do folks propose to include this link? we had a box at the top of the tracker page but it was removed in the interest of clean ui. some felt that viewing your own posts is an infrequent need, and possibly too self-congratulatory :)

Tracker

Dries commented 3 September 2003 at 05:43

Not quite. Viewing your own posts is a frequent need. To do so, I use the tracker page and "page back" one or more pages to see if someone replied to my posts. It works rather well so, personally, I don't miss the "track own comments" feature.

You Have New Reply

Robert Castelo commented 3 September 2003 at 10:34

A better idea is to include a "You have a new reply to your post" email notification function (which you can switch on and off in the user account preferences).

That way you would know straight away when someone has replied to your post, without having to keep monitoring the Website.

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Feature Already Available

Robert Castelo commented 3 September 2003 at 10:38

Oops!

Just noticed that an email notification system is already available (under "notification settings"). Just testing it out now....

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Notify module

Dries commented 3 September 2003 at 10:50

The notification system does not send out personalized e-mails and does not allow you to subscribe to individual posts (nodes). It mails out periodic overviews much like what you can see on the tracker page.

(Read: the notify module doesn't do what most people would like it to do. ;))

Long Wait

Robert Castelo commented 3 September 2003 at 16:30

Thanks Dries,
I was wondering why my notification email was taking so long!!

Hope this feature is high on the wish list, I find it invaluable on other forums. :P

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Wishlist

Dries commented 3 September 2003 at 17:16

I'm confident it is high on the wishlist, yet that doesn't guarantee it will be implemted soon. In the end, someone has to stand up and do the actual work. That and one can only do so many things in a week.

What exactly

killes@www.drop.org commented 3 September 2003 at 23:07

would you like to see in such a tracker box?

- your nodes where somebody has made a new comment?
- Any nodes where you had made a comment earlier and now somebody else also made a comment?

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the same rules as "view recent posts".

joe lombardo commented 5 September 2003 at 04:44

A combination of both sounds pretty good, or the rules could be copied from the "view recent posts" page.

Cheers,
- Joe

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tracker view own posts patch

erikhopp commented 10 September 2003 at 20:28

well, if someone does want to add a link (right below "view recent posts") to a list of their own posts, here is a patch you can apply to the tracker module.

Index: modules/tracker.module
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RCS file: /cvs/drupal/drupal/modules/tracker.module,v
retrieving revision 1.56
diff -u -r1.56 tracker.module
--- modules/tracker.module	9 Sep 2003 18:18:43 -0000	1.56
+++ modules/tracker.module	10 Sep 2003 20:19:52 -0000
@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@
 
   if ($type == "menu.view" && user_access("access content")) {
     $links[] = l(t("view recent posts"), "tracker", array("title" => t("Display an overview of the recent posts.")));
+    $links[] = l(t("view your posts"), "tracker/$account->uid", array("title" => t("Display an overview of your posts.")));
+
   }
 
   return $links;

i'm not sure this is the right way to code this change, but it works for me.

and if someone thinks this should be in the cvs, i'd certainly suport it.

erik.