Limiting the Unread Posts page to specific boards

[pixelgeek]

The SMF software used here has quite a few ways to customize the results of search pages but one of the most useful is the ability to specify a series of topic areas to limit results to.

Lets say, for instance, that you want to only see results from the Old West,  Gothic Horror, Pulp and Future Wars section of the sites.

The base url for the Unread Posts page here is

http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?action=unread

in order to limit these results we need to add the "boards" parameter to the URL

http://leadadventureforum.com//index.php?action=unread;boards=

Next step is to find the numbers of the boards in question. Go to the Forum home page and hover the mouse over the links to the sections that you want to view.

The link to the Old West section is

http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?board=3.0

so the board number is 3.0. The decimal place is important.

We then add that to the Unread Posts url

http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?action=unread;boards=3.0

then we can find the rest of the board numbers and add them separated by commas giving us:

http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?action=unread;boards=8.0,6.0,5.0,13.0

The software knows when you have filtered the results and so the page that is generated by this URL will also show you a link to see all of the unread posts as well.

[Prof.Witchheimer]

thank you very much for the hint, it's quite usefull!

[Torben]

I might be a bit dense here, but how do I actually go about setting it up? Do I just write the boards I'd like in the unread column directly into the url and then the software remembers it the next time I click on the "Unread" link?

Or do I need to put it in somewhere else?

[pixelgeek]

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