I would like to add another one!
The forum has functionality to view a thread as a treeview. I think this feature can be very useful for browsing through heavily used threads.
Why are treeviews helpful in this manner:
-You can view the subjects and authors of many posts on one screen (without the full text of a reply many posts will fit on the screen)
-You can easily ignore a group of replies if the indentation of the treeview shows you to which post is being replied.
The current treeview implementation of dnn forum is however too limited to be useful because: the number of entries on the page is not increased (you still need to use paging buttons!) and it is not clear to what message a person is replying.
for example the following view would improve functionality of the treeview mode:
+-------------------
| Original Post as currently shown
+-------------------
+ replysubject1 by xyz on mm/dd/yyyy hh:mm
| |
| + replysubject2 by abc on mm/dd/yyy hh:mm
| |
| + replysubject3 by ade on mm/dd/yyy hh:mm
|
+ replysubject4 by xy2 on mm/dd/yyyy hh:mm
|
+ replysubject5 by ab2 on mm/dd/yyy hh:mm
I hope this kind of treeview will make the base core dnn forum module!
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