Forum Discussion

sullysnack's avatar
sullysnack
Khoros Alumni (Retired)
9 years ago

Thread-based Unread / Read flag via APIv2 messages query

  Hi Lithium Developers,   With APIv2 LiQL, say for example we have queried for 12 message results and all of them are thread starters (original posts). In each message result item there's a user_...
mbiel's avatar
mbiel
Expert
5 years ago

Even if this is an older post, this problem still persists.
There are so many possibilities nowadays to create custom message lists via api.

But in case of read-tracking on thread level, we have just two possibilities:

  • get read/unread threads by looking for their last post with horrible performance impact especially if you have lots of threads to show
  • just do not use readtracking 

This means: if you create custom message lists via api, you loose the main feature of a forum/community.