Question Can't create sticky post

G'day, anth. I'm sorry, we're trying to find a standard set of terms that everyone can understand.

The term "sticky post" has many alternative meanings and it may not be easy to understand if you aren't from an English-speaking background. Here are a few terms that mean the same thing.

Sticky post
Sticky thread
Sticky topic
Sticky discussion
Featured thread
Featured topic
Featured discussion
Pinned post/discussion/topic/thread
Sticky
Spotlight
FAQ
Read this first

There is a "sticky post" feature in Kunena. Look at any category (e.g. the Common Questions category here will do as a demonstration) and see the topics highlighted with a yellow background and a red pin. So the feature does exist.

Moderators can make a post "sticky" by using a "sticky" button.

anth wrote: The original question asks about a "sticky post", however its clear that it was actually referring to a "sticky topic". All following posts in this topic seem to get the semantics confused as well.

I am looking for a 'sticky post', and have concluded that there is no such feature available for Kunena. Wish I was wrong.

Can you explain in some detail how you would use a sticky post?

I have had some similar thoughts but want to hear from others how you would go about this.

Would this be within a thread or topic? Simply move the sticky post up on top or right below the thread starter?

Thanks for the clarification, fxstein. I have to admit that I hadn't considered the use of anything other than a thread starter as a sticky post. You're quite right, of course.

Please ignore all my earlier comments in this thread - I seem to have completely misunderstood the entire question and this whole discussion. :blush:

Before I forget - this might also need a minor template change, so that we can show a link to the prior message of an reply - as we would mix up the natural ordering of posts within a thread by doing stickies.

Something like

#5 in reply to #4

in the right top corner of a post where you see #5 right now (or whatever the number)

or in a different location but visible

Sozzled - If a post was the same as a topic, then I would agree. But they are different - topics are made up of posts... aren't they?

The example does show some sticky topics, but I cant see evidence of sticky posts within them... though I could stand corrected as it was a quick look.

fxstein - my customer asked me to find this out. They have post ordering as 'newest first', but would like to have (usually the 1st and oldest post) as a sticky at the top of the replies.

An example would be when forum is used to manage meeting minutes. Each major point of the minutes is a topic. It would be nice to sometimes have the first post in a topic (which contains the official point from the meeting minutes, as a sticky, with working responses following below - newest at top, but under the sticky 1st post. Fussy eh!
I suggested to them that having a conventional 'oldest first' ordering would be the best compromise.

Anyway, I hope I have embarrassed myself by the feature being present, as suggested.

... aaah, I see you guys are fast typists, and are already way ahead of me - thanks!

I'm sorry, anth. I goofed and I've admitted my mistake. fxstein has a handle on this subject. Short answer to your question is that we need to do some work on this to achieve the result in the way you've described.

If I were using Kunena to keep manage a standing agenda for a series of meetings, I would create separate discussion topics - the first item in each topic would describe the agenda item - and the following postings would relate to it. If a discussion fragments, or needs to be split into a new agenda item, K 1.6 has a "split" feature that allows you to move a post (and subsequent replies) to a new topic. That's just my idea. fxstein may have a better idea.