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Mike Javelin Members Profile Find Members Posts Newbie Joined: 15 June 2003 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 13	Post Options Post Reply Quote Mike Javelin Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Post Order Posted: 04 August 2003 at 12:48pm
	Is it possible to show the latest replies at the top rather than being tagged on at the end?

ljamal Members Profile Find Members Posts Mod Builder Group Joined: 16 April 2003 Status: Offline Points: 888	Post Options Post Reply Quote ljamal Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 04 August 2003 at 1:12pm
	You would have to reverse the current sort order, but why would you want to read a thread backwards?
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Mike Javelin Members Profile Find Members Posts Newbie Joined: 15 June 2003 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 13	Post Options Post Reply Quote Mike Javelin Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 04 August 2003 at 1:25pm
	The threads on our site can get pretty long. Amongst other things we use the forum to promote our events and as new info becomes available this is added to the thread. This results in having to scroll down quite a long way to reach the latest comment, question or update. One argument would be to have a specific forum for each event but this would make the forum a bit difficult to navigate for many of our users who find this internet thing a bit daunting anyway. How do I change the sort order

ljamal Members Profile Find Members Posts Mod Builder Group Joined: 16 April 2003 Status: Offline Points: 888	Post Options Post Reply Quote ljamal Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 04 August 2003 at 1:27pm
	Change this line in forum_posts.asp from: strSQL = strSQL & "ORDER BY " & strDbTable & "Thread.Message_date ASC;" to strSQL = strSQL & "ORDER BY " & strDbTable & "Thread.Message_date DESC;"
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michael Members Profile Find Members Posts Senior Member Joined: 08 April 2002 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 4670	Post Options Post Reply Quote michael Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 04 August 2003 at 2:02pm
	I think he is talkinga about moving the html above the thready physically not changing the sort order. Just copy and past the code for that to where you want to have it.
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Spatula Members Profile Find Members Posts Newbie Joined: 19 December 2003 Status: Offline Points: 1	Post Options Post Reply Quote Spatula Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 19 December 2003 at 2:42pm
	While it would be generally weird to read posts newest to oldest, if your users come frequently, it is easier for them to see whats new in the topics if new posts are listed first. Its like an email correspondance. The older messages get pushed down to the bottom. I polled my users and it was a unanimous decision to list newest posts first. This helped me out a great deal. Glad it was such an easy change.

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