Question Posting new thread in sub-categories the icons not showing for its parent categories

After posting a new thread in subcategories of kunena forum the icon for category(category with new post) is not showing for the parent category.

Ex: A is a parent category. B and C is the subcategory of A. D and E is the Subcategory of B. if a new thread id posting in E or D the icon of category with new post will be showed in D or E and the parent category B. But the icon of category with new post is not showing for the main category A.

Please help me out from this problem.

G'day, mabs2685, and welcome to Kunena.

The issue only arises when using the Index view of categories and topics.

I understand the issue that you seem to be having but it's not easy to give a simple answer to this question. If I were to say that there isn't a major problem with this limitation you would probably disagree. I need to explain.

Let us suppose, for example that you had 26 sub-category levels (I realise this is an extreme example, that probably wouldn't happen in real life, but I would ask you to play along with me for a little while):

Category A
.../sub-category B
.../.../sub-category C
.../.../..../sub-category D
.
.
.
.../.../.../.../sub-category Z

And let us suppose that someone posts a new message in sub-category Z.

You want the ^NEW indicator to show on Category A, right? So, what happens next? Someone sees the "new" indicator on Category A but they won't find the new post when they open the category. But they will find a sub-category B. Perhaps, then we need to show the ^NEW indicator against the link to sub-category B? OK, so we e go to sub-category B but there's still no new message but now we see a ^NEW indicator appear on sub-category C, perhaps? And, eventually, after 26 mouse-clicks, you finally arrive at sub-category Z where you see the new message. :pinch:

As I said, an extreme example and I'm sure you and everyone else reading this will say, that will never happen. Therefore we have to ask ourselves, what is not an extreme case? If 26 levels is too many, is 25 levels too many? Or 24, 23, 22 ... or 5? At some point we have to agree what is not too many levels, too many many hoops you need to put your users through, to get where new messages have been posted.

In my opinion, the presence of sub-categories serves one important purpose on the Index page: it shows your uses where they might find information. However I, and most forum users that I have daily contact with, don't use the Index page very often to find the latest messages posted on the forum. You may choose to disagree with me (and I'll respect your right to do that) but it is my opinion that most people get more benefit from using either the Recent Topics or My Topics tabs to go directly to the latest messages.

One of the things that you'll also notice about the Index view is that the ^NEW indicator is not clickable whereas on the Recent Topics or My Topics views it is clickable. This is the solution. When the ^NEW indicator becomes a direct link to the new message.

In conclusion, although the issue that you've reported could be categorised as a technical defect of K 1.6.x, I would suggess that it's not a major drama because of the way that most people use the forum. If most people are primarily interested seeking the latest messages, they won't use the Index page; they'll use the Recent Topics or My Topics tabs. But that's just my opinion.

Known problem; no technical solution at this stage. Sorry.