Favorites

[Peter_SSs]

When coming across threads that have something in them that I may want to refer to later, I have been adding them to my 'Favorites'. Unfortunately, the thread name often has nothing to do with why I have added it to Favorites.

In the Favorites list, there are just two headings:'Topic' and 'Delete'. Might the administrators of the board consider adding an additional column to the Favorites page called, say 'Notes' or 'My Topic Name' and allow the user to enter/edit their own short description in this column?

Then if the topic was called 'Help' by the OP, I could call it, say, 'Sumproduct explanation' in the 'Notes' column. This would make finding favorite information much easier later on.

By the way, thank you to the Moderators and/or whoever assists in maintaining this forum. I have been using it for about three months now and think it is fabulous!

Peter

 

[NateO]

Hi Peter,

I'm afraid this is easier said than done. Having the Favourites functionality, as is, is a Modification to the standard board's functionality made by phpBB experts, which I am not...

What you might want to consider instead is, if you're using IE, is to add a MrExcel.com folder to your IE favourites and bookmark urls to that folder with descriptions as you see fit. I'm sure other browsers support this functionality as well.

You must have a lot of favourites, then?

Thanks for the compliments; we have a great supporting cast here.

 

[Peter_SSs]

Nate

I am not surprised that my requested change (or any change for that matter) is not easy to implement.

I don't have very many Mr Excel favourites (yet), about 10 - 15 but the thread names mostly don't reflect why I wanted the thread in my favourites.

Your suggestion of using browser favourites instead seems a good one, and I will give it a try.

Thank you very much for your reply.

 

[NateO]

You're welcome. I wanted to make sure you did get a response from an Admin. here.

I did look into your request but did not find much that would help, let alone be easy to implement.... It seems this would require someone with expertise to write out a pretty decent hack...

Sorry I don't have a better answer for you... While I wouldn't want to do this for every thread on the board, if you really want, send me PM with some of these threads and I'll look into giving them a more descriptive thread title, as they should have.

Otherwise, I bookmark threads with my IE favourites all the time.

 

[Peter_SSs]

Nate

Thanks for the offer, but I am happy to try the IE favourites method.