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Unread Content, Activity Tab, Content Streams & Fluid Forum View

Alex

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It's been a while since I made a blog entry so I've decided that I am going to start to add entries around using AutoShopOwner and things that may be of interest. For this entry, I'd like to showcase our Activity tab in the main menu and try to describe how you can use it and some of our other views to bring up the content that you want to see vs viewing everything. Today we have a few ways of seeings what's new from your last visit and content in general.

 

UNREAD CONTENT

You can click the Unread Content  link towards the top right and that'll give you all your "unread" content since your last visit. It's also available under Activity Streams (next section). Some people love this feature on forums and it's handy for frequent visitors, but can be a very long list if you haven't been here in a while.

 

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At any given time you can "Mark site read" and it'll show everything as being read.

 

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You can even mark topics and full forums as read (stops topic titles from being bold because bold means unread)

 

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ACTIVITY STREAMS

Click on the Activity section from the main menu and you'll see a link for All Activity, My Activity Streams, and Search. This is where you can really tailor your view of content that you want to see. Start with one of our default streams or give a shot at creating your own stream to show only what YOU want to see!

 

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FLUID FORUM VIEW

If creating your own Activity Stream isn't for you and you like to just go to the main page of the forum and see what's going on, then Fluid View may be for you. You can toggle between Fluid and Traditional views easily by clicking on the layout button. You can also customize which forums will show topics by clicking on the "Showing topics from all forums" link.

 

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Hopefully this explains some of the ways we have available for our members to get to the content they want to see and stay updated. If all else fails, just use the search box at the top of the page!

 

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mmotley

mmotley 209

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If I remember correctly, on the old layout there was a way to see any topic that had new posts. I think it also would move the topic with the latest content to the top, regardless of how old the topic was. Is there a view that does this?

Alex

Alex 94

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Yes both unread content and fluid forum view default to the most recent activity and will show you the topics that have the most recent posts at the top. You can sort it anyway you like because the unread content link is essentially an activity stream. You can create your own activity stream and sort it the way you want as mentioned above. Below is a screenshot of the fluid forum view and by default it loads forum topics with the most recent replies. I highlighted the time stamps to show. I would try this view out as it's very close to what you are looking for and you can filter out the forums you don't want to see topics from as well.

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mmotley

mmotley 209

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Perfect, exactly what I was looking for. Thanks

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Alex

Alex 94

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Blog post updated.

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