Options on Topic and Posts

[IanM]

I was asked to describe what each of these menu options does. I have added what I know here. Does anyone have comments on the others?

Topic Options

Move Message:  Move the topic to another board
Delete Topic:  Delete the topic and all of its replies

Block New Replies:  Disallow new replies to the topic

Float Topic for All Users:  Displays the topic at the top of the board for all users

Turn off and Hide Kudos:  Self explanatory

Freeze Kudos:  disables new Kudos but leaves them visible

Hide from Kudos Leaderboards:  prevents this topic from showing in Kudos leaderboards

Subscribe to RSS Feed:   Provides an RSS feed of this topic and its replies

Mark Topic as New:  Shows the new topic indicator in the topic list

Float this Topic for the Current User:  Displays the topic at the top of the board for only current user.

Bookmark:  Adds this topic to the current user's bookmark list

Subscribe:  Will send you a notification when this topic is updated

Sort by Topics:  Alphabetical listing?

Sort by Oldest to Newest:  Sorts the replies from oldest to newest

Sort Newest to Oldest:  Sorts the replies from newest to oldest

Printer Friendly Page:  Self explanatory

Feature this Topic:   Adds the topic to the featured topics component

Post/Reply Options

Edit Message:  Self explanatory

View Edit History: :  Self explanatory

Move Message:  Move this message to another topic

Delete:  Self explanatory

Mark as New:  Shows the new message indicator in the message list

Bookmark:  Adds this topic to the current user's bookmark list

Subscribe:  Will send you a notification when this topic is updated

Subscribe to RSS Feed:   Provides an RSS feed of this topic and its replies

Highlight: Refreshes the page, adding direct link parameters to the URL to share.  The message linked will be highlighted when loading the direct link.

Print:  Displays a printer friendly page

Email to a Friend:  Self explanatory

Turn off and Hide Kudos:  Self explanatory

Freeze Kudos:  disables new Kudos but leaves them visible

[AbhishekIlindra]

@IanM : Float this Topic for Current User :   Displays the topic at the top of the board for only Current/login User.

If my post is helpful and answers your question, please give "Kudos" and "Accept it as a Solution."

Thanks & Regards,
Abhishek Illindra

[IanM]

Thanks. I have updated the list.

[BHall]

Highlight - adjusts the url in the address bar (typically adding an anchor point) to load the page at that specific post (basically, "get direct link".

[srujanayeruvaka]

Hi @IanM,

Highlight - The option in the drop down when selected for a particular reply in a thread will change the URL to be for that specific reply.

If I wanted to send you a URL or a link that would take you to a specific reply in a long thread, I would select Highlight from the Options drop down, and then send you the resulting URL. That way you could go directly to that particular reply.

You may refer to this thread - https://community.lithium.com/t5/Customer-Connection/What-does-the-highlight-feature-do/m-p/17590#M1...

[DanK]

Highlight is possibly the worst name for that feature, I believe it should be called Direct Link or something similar.

[IanM]

It does highlight it when you follow the direct link.  I agree, direct link would be a more clear name.

[ClaudiusH]

Since we already went a bit off topic in regard to the "Highlighting" feature:

If you use this feature on the Lithium Community you will see that the selected message is both scrolled to when followed and indeed highlighted with a yellow golden border. This used to be the out of the box styling before the responsive redesign in 2016. This styling can be added to your community as well by using the following:

span:first-of-type[aria-label="Highlighted"]+div .lia-message-view-display {
    background: lightyellow;
    border: 1px solid #f4b93b;
    box-shadow: 0 2px 2px #f4b93b;
}

Just replace lightyellow and #f4b93b with colors that stand out, but fit to your community's color scheme.

[ClaudiusH]

"Sort by Topics" - Sort messages by thread

Since the responsive skin doesn't have any UI support (i.e. there's no indentation showing for messages in threaded topic view) for the threaded view it's a bit hard to follow what's happening there. But basically it will traverse the topic reply structure by thread, e.g. show replies first disregarding reply date. The parent-child connection of a reply is established through next to which message the Reply button is clicked.

Here's my crude attempt to explain the different message listing. Blue box texts show replies in chronological order, the orange circles if it would be sorted by thread.

Chronological vs threaded message sorting

[DanK]

I had no idea that is what sort by topic did. Assuming you could set that as a default and with a little bit of styling you could get threaded (indented) replies going on Community I assume. Very interesting.

[ClaudiusH]

Found out that we do actually have a documentation article explaining it here: https://community.lithium.com/t5/Community-display/Different-types-of-Linear-Topic-orders-Normal-top...

@DanK: Here's a topic describing a possible approach to achieve a threaded visualization with indented reply layout: https://community.lithium.com/t5/Developer-Discussion/How-can-I-design-comments-differently-from-ans...

[kosmonaft]

Good post.

However I missing an option hide post, to hide (for non-admin users) a post which is unappropriated but has to be keep for further investigation