Timestamp on Comments

max1836

Possible to change forum so that a time stamp shows on a post?

I don't seem to be able to link to a specific post within a thread. It would be nice to at least use a time stamp as a pointer.

adamsmith

you can link to a post using it's consecutive number from the top, e.g.
https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/29677/zotero-library-lookup/#Item_6

aurimas

Which is actually quite a pain and I've been meaning to ask for some sort of link for each forum post.

[pokes fcheslack]

Rintze

My workaround is to use the Zotero forum search and paste in some text of the post I want to link to. Search results offer links to individual posts. There are IDs in the HTML source, but checking that is more work in my experience.

adamsmith

I use inspect element and copy the item number - but yeah, neither of these are exactly smooth

aurimas

My workaround is to use the Zotero forum search and paste in some text of the post I want to link to. Search results offer links to individual posts. There are IDs in the HTML source, but checking that is more work in my experience.

I recently started using that. :-)

Now I just type out #Item_ and start guessing numbers until I get it right

aurimas

This would be another very simple patch to Vanilla (some white space stripped off):

--- vanilla-1.1.5a/themes/comments.php 2008-09-24 17:22:14.000000000 -0500
+++ www/themes/comments.php 2013-05-25 23:03:38.567488686 -0500
@@ -120,6 +120,8 @@
.' return false;">'.$this->Context->GetDefinition($Comment->Deleted?'Show':'Hide').'</a>
';
}
+ $CommentList .= '<a href="#Item_'.$RowNumber.'"><img src="http://www.ubik.com/tutorial/en/graphics/mobilizer/link_icon.png"/></a>;
+ ';
$this->DelegateParameters['CommentList'] = &$CommentList;
$this->CallDelegate('PostCommentOptionsRender');
$CommentList .= '
@@ -147,4 +149,4 @@
}
}
echo $CommentList;
-?>

The URL for the actual link icon is obviously just a placeholder. I think the icon at that address would work quite well though (it's almost identical to the famfamfam link icon).