Hi,

First off... great effort! :))

And my query... how can I display a list of recent posts on another page? This is a key feature I've been hoping for. The purpose being to lead viewers to the forums from other pages of the site's content... the forum chat is supposed to be about content on other pages anyway so it'd be extremely useful if one could preview posts on any page.

Is there perhaps a way to use RSS to do this? It'd need to be able to show for example the most recent 5-10 posts from a particular forum and display these, preferably with author and a lttle bit of text, or at least the thread title.

Thanks for any info on this.
Rob

Thanks for the response

I've since managed to hack Peter Donker's (heheh my typo finder wants to change that to donkey) RSSXtra module into a reasonable facsimile of this feature.

But more interestingly, I read the manual in bed last night and  took particular interest in the Terminology section on page 2. A sentence in there implied that one could have a specific subsection of a forum on another page.

In this particular site of mine, that feature largely removes the need to have a dashboard of new posts designed to lead readers to the relevant forum. I simply have the relevant forum itself displayed on the page... in this instance it is even better than the dashboard though I will still need and use the dashboard for the homepage.

Regards,
Rob

p.s. I've never had notification emails from any of these dnn forums, including ones on other sites. I've seen people talk about it not working... I can confirm that it doesn't appear to work and I always tick the notification box... it is ticked right now below.

Here's what I did to show the latest articles ...

1) Download and install AdvancedDataGrid from EfficonSoftware (free).

2) Add it into whatever page you like to show the latest articles. I put it just below the forum itself and then disabled the forum footer so users don't have to scroll too much, but it's up to you.

3) In the module settings for the AdvancedDataGrid, use this as the SQL statement :

SELECT TOP 25
CONVERT(VARCHAR(10),Forum_Posts.CreatedDate,111) + ' ' +
CONVERT(VARCHAR(10),Forum_Posts.CreatedDate,108) AS DateAdded,
Forum_Users.Alias AS Author,
'<a href=Default.aspx?tabid=117&threadid=' + CAST( Forum_Posts.ThreadID AS VARCHAR(10)) + '&scope=posts>' + Forum_Posts.Subject +'</a>' AS Message
FROM Forum_Posts
INNER JOIN Forum_Users ON Forum_Users.UserId = Forum_Posts.UserID
ORDER BY Forum_Posts.PostID DESC

The sky's the limit here since you can change the columns, number of messages to show (above example is 25), and so on by changing the SQL statement.

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