* Upgrade to the forums

[Jane]

Over this weekend I will be upgrading to the latest version of the forum software.

Please note this may mean the forums will be off line or "unpredictable", but hopefully everything will be back to "Normal" fairly quickly.

[Jane]

The upgrade seems to have gone OK.

A few things have moved around in relation to the position of some options. Mainly the View Lasted posts and unread items are now under the quick links button top right

If any thing looks a little strange, please press the F5 key on your web browser to refresh your browser.

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[ColeValleyGirl]

Front page is looking a little odd, even after clearing browser caches...

[Jane]

Thanks Helen

Just spotted the problem.

I've patched it a bit, and will work on it now, I knew I would forget something.

[SunnyLady]

Jane

Brilliant ... On unread posts page I no longer need to go anywhere to mark all items read... Thankyou

SL

[tatewise]

Generally looks good.
The larger font is easier to read, but there is less visible on a page.

Can the Closed/Locked Forums be placed below their active Forum as they were before please?
Otherwise, especially new users, will be confused where to post for FH V6.
e.g.
V2/V3/V4 Usage
The Lost Posts Archive
Closed Wish List Requests
Gedcom Census (closed)

BTW: Why are BBCodes and Smilies OFF in this 'News and Announcement' Forum?

[Jane]

I have moved the topics I have smiles and bbcode so I suspect it's a permissions thing. Do you have them in other forums ok?

[ColeValleyGirl]

Definitely a permissions thing...

[tatewise]

Yes, I have BBCodes and Smilies everywhere else OK.
I think it has always been that way.
BTW: I have to Approved every Reply I make here too.

One other thing I have spotted that is missing.
The * shortcut on posting headings to allow Ctrl-C to create a link to a posting has vanished.

Also the associated 'topic' and also the 'kb' menu items are well hidden, although still actually present if you hover to the right of the colour picker icon.

!!! Don't know if it is related, but I cannot now Login to the Knowledge Base to perform some updates. It was OK yesterday.
In other words my wikieditor and wikimanager membership appears to be ineffective although listed in my Profile.

Finally for now, can the' Members' list be initially sorted on one of the columns?
It always has been, and still is, random initially, but perhaps better is sorted on 'Username' or 'Joined'.

[Valkrider]

I don't seem to be able to find the option to change the theme. I am a dinosaur and like the original theme. Is it still available?

[ColeValleyGirl]

The answer is no, you can't revert to the original theme as it isn't available in the new version of the underlying software (which was also upgraded this weekend to maintain supportability). I know Jane looked at the options but it wasn't possible. (I suspect although she hasn't said that it was a fair amount of work to achieve something that looked broadly similar).

[Jane]

Yes, I have BBCodes and Smilies everywhere else OK.
I think it has always been that way.
BTW: I have to Approved every Reply I make here too.

I'll leave it as normally the News area is locked to Admins for new posts. I have moved this post to user group so you can use your smiles and bold if you must.

One other thing I have spotted that is missing.
The * shortcut on posting headings to allow Ctrl-C to create a link to a posting has vanished.

Done

Also the associated 'topic' and also the 'kb' menu items are well hidden, although still actually present if you hover to the right of the colour picker icon.

Done.

Finally for now, can the' Members' list be initially sorted on one of the columns?
It always has been, and still is, random initially, but perhaps better is sorted on 'Username' or 'Joined'.

Not sure about this they always appear in Joined date order when I open the list, it's just the imported ones from the begining all have the same date and time give or take a bit.

!!! Don't know if it is related, but I cannot now Login to the Knowledge Base to perform some updates. It was OK yesterday.
In other words my wikieditor and wikimanager membership appears to be ineffective although listed in my Profile.

I suspect it's a change in the phpBB user validation routine, I will have a dig around in the Wiki Validate code for the inherited groups, I am off out in the sunshine for a bit now, but will look later.

Edit: I think it was just a missing file which I have restored from the previous version and seems to be working for me. You might need to log in to the Knowledge base again.

[ColeValleyGirl]

Finally for now, can the' Members' list be initially sorted on one of the columns?
It always has been, and still is, random initially, but perhaps better is sorted on 'Username' or 'Joined'.


Not sure about this they always appear in Joined date order when I open the list, it's just the imported ones from the begining all have the same date and time give or take a bit.

The member list has always opened randomly sorted for me, but it's only a single click to resort it so it's not a real problem.

[Valkrider]

If we can't have the old theme back can we at least have some choice? There are over 200 themes available according to the phpBB website. I am not asking for all of them but one similar to the old theme instead of this one would be great.

[ColeValleyGirl]

Colin, which old theme are you talking about?

[tatewise]

Yes, all problems fixed - thanks Jane.

On closer inspection the Members are listed in Joined order, and a single click does sort OK, but listed in reverse Joined order or alphabetic by Username is often more useful.

[ColeValleyGirl]

Valkrider/Colin, Jane has turned on the Pro-Silver Theme (totally un-customised) so you have a choice -- but any changes made in the main theme won't be reflected there.

[ColeValleyGirl]

Mike, a simple click on any header will sort items in the order you want or (toggle) resort them in reverse order.

[Valkrider]

The original brown one without the garish orange and smaller font.

[tatewise]

Jane, the Wish List http://www.fhug.org.uk/wishlist/ appears not to be working!

[Jane]

Wish list should be working now.

[tatewise]

Yes Jane, Wish List looks OK, and thank you for setting Members list to reverse sort on Joined date.

[tatewise]

When using the Move topic option, the Leave shadow topic in place used to be ticked by default, but now is not ticked, which runs the risk that no breadcrumb trail is left for the original user.

Can that option be ticked by default please?

[Jane]

Should be changed

[tatewise]

Yes, thanks Jane.