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Question Is it possible to sticky a post within a topic?
- brutus8890
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I wonder if there is a way of setting the first message of a topic in Kunena after its creation.
Suppose I have a topic with 3 messages in this order:
A
B
C
I want to write a new post X and set it as the first one for that topic, so that the new order is:
X
A
B
C
Is it possibile?
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Even that does not resolve your specific case. Kunena offers you two choices (on a user-by-user basis).
A (which was the first message in a topic)
B
C (the most recently-posted message in a topic)
or
C (the most recently-posted message)
B
A
If you add another message to the topic, the result will either be
A
B
C
X
or
X
C
B
A
However, if I correctly understand your question, you want this:
X (whenever it was posted, to remain "sticky" at the top of the topic
A (the "original" start of the topic
B
C (the most recent update)
or
X
C
B
A
No, I don't believe this is easily achievable in the current version of Kunena and there are no specific plans (that I'm aware of) to do this in the near future. Does that answer your question?
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So I suppose the only solution is to operate on the database records: would changing the message date solve my problem?
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Not really. I mean, it might be a workaround in your case if your users view topics under the [default] oldest-post-first approach of but you will produce different outcomes if your users choose the newest-post-first option. Your "sticky" post will then be the last one, if you follow my meaning.¥ Brutus ¥ wrote: Would changing the message date solve my problem?
I think we'd all probably agree that there's not a big call for this kind of feature in discussion forum software; it's not been my personal experience in over 20 years of using discussion forums. I would recommend that, if you have important information that you want to draw your community's attention to, use sticky topics and refer your community to those things ... like we do here at www.kunena.org . ;)
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Try it and see if that does the job for you.
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I also tried to edit my message time from the database but this is useless, does kunena order by message id?
My situation now is:
Message 1 (7 hours ago) [id 130] (this is the message I moved in the topic I had created)
Message 2 (8 hours ago) [id 148] (this is the message I created in the new topic)
Message 3 (1 hour ago) [id 150] (this is the reply of another user)
Is it possible?
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You ask if it's possible [to develop a technical solution that implements "sticky post" within topic]. I will give you the same answer that I have given to people over the last four decades I have been doing systems analysis work: anything is possible but everything has a price tag; it depends on whether people are prepared to pay the cost.
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Searching on the web I found a new feature:
oredering_system = mesid, in Kunena_config table
I changed this from "mesid" to "replyid"; now Kunena doesn't show the messages unique ID but the relative one. For example, in this case, your reply is the message number 9 (replyid) while its real ID is 120095.
Now I ask: where is the replyid message info stored in?
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