[Solved] Controlling the thread order sort - descending, ascending, time, views, votes

unixhero

Hi

I'm new to Vanilla Forums.

Is there a way that the user, or the admin, can choose how to sort the threads/conversations in the forum? Vanilla Forums has so many nice ways it could sort the threads, after time posted, how many views, how many upvotes

I am hoping at minimum to be able to make the forum stack the topics with the most recent posts at the top (time). Right now it is not doing that (!???), and that has me a little confused... Voting addon is disabled.

peregrine

the upcoming version 2.1 has this both option I believe for sorting

Also there is a reverse comment sort plugin

the default is most recent posts go to the top.

if you imported

http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/comment/165569/#Comment_165569

unixhero

I imported from phpbb3. It's all very chaotic and not sorted after time posted.

Could something have gone wrong with my import?

peregrine

if they are in reverse order - you can update the tables

http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/comment/165576/#Comment_165576

unixhero

New posts show up randomly in the "all posts" list and existing posts have no apparent sorting logic

peregrine

the best I can suggest if you want some kind of order for all existing posts

is to use phpmyadmin and sort by discussion title.

UPDATE GDN_Discussion SET DateLastComment = NOW( ) 
        ORDER BY Name ASC 

then the next ones should go in above according to time of last comment - assuming you are not embedding or having some magical comment insertion (feeds etc). assuming posters are posting the standard way and you are not using anonymouse.

Also assuming you have your time set properly on your server

unixhero

That kind of worked. But I didn't like it because it changed the metadata on ALL posts (obviously :) )... So I replaced the database with a backup, and sat down and looked at it. I found the root cause to my troubles.

The ALL POSTS activity stream(or whatever it's called) puts all ANNOUNCEMENTS on top. My forum had more than 50 announced topics, and therefore it looked very chaotic and gave little sense. I guess we have to stop using announced topics, but that is a small price to pay. After I deannounced all topics, the forum sorts after latest post date.

Great

x00

50 announcements!!!

yes announcements = sticky.

UnderDog

I think it has something to do with this problem you're having : http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/21111/after-importing-from-phpbb3-timestamps-only-show-month-and-year

Was this your final import or just a test-run? Did you import with the Porter plugin or with Porter Plus?

unixhero

I imported using the Import feature in Vanilla Core, using http://vanillaforums.org/addon/porter-core

It proceeded with no errors.

Anyways this is thread is [solved] now for my sake =) Thanks a lot