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madpakke 
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 Topic: Possible to set a topic to delete after X days
Posted: 30 March 2012 at 7:20am |
Hey Bruce,
Is it possible to set topics, to be automatic deleted after X days in a forum.?
Is this feature something you will look at.?
Because so can i use it, so my users can create sales announcement in the forum.
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wildcat dude
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Posted: 16 May 2012 at 1:34am |
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I myself would like this feature as we have to manually delete our for sale/trade or buy posts after 30 days. wonder if the calendar event might work for this?
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WebWiz-Bruce
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Posted: 16 May 2012 at 8:52am |
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Classic ASP does not have the ability to schedule tasks
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Posted: 27 July 2012 at 8:10pm |
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This would be also very important for me... also for sales announcements. It could have the option to delete post, hide or move to another forum (I prefere moving so I can keep track later).
This could be done with a everyday schedule task that run a script that checks wahtever need to be done in a dayly basis... Ex: if today date = expiration date for a topic -> take action and reset expiration dates.
Another feature that can help ads announcements (or whatever) would be to have a button that show only to the user that created the topic asking to close the topic - So users that already sold their products can ask for moderators to close, move, hide or delete it. Or even better... If moderators can set a default action for this button... like move the topic to another forum...
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Posted: 27 July 2012 at 9:02pm |
 WebWiz-Bruce wrote:
Classic ASP does not have the ability to schedule tasks |
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Posted: 27 July 2012 at 9:57pm |
WebWiz-Bruce wrote:
WebWiz-Bruce wrote:
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Yes.. but this can be done other way around.. you can set a function in any script you are sure that runs everyday, lets say.. several times each hour... so the script will triger a function to check all the pending notifications, comparing dates. As I said.. If the date is the same, it will take action... If not, the date will be reset. To avoid the overhead of the function all the time, you can trigger it depending on the time of the day or a particular event - Exemple - It will trigger everytime a new reply is done each day before 10 a.m. or only when the first user logs into the forum each day.
I do that withmy news RSS... since RSS is only updated when a news is post in done, I only call the "update RSS" function when a news is created, updated or deleted.
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Posted: 28 July 2012 at 11:15am |
On busy forums there will be pages that run everyday that could be used as a trigger, but on less active forums there is no guarantee that any page would be run daily and so no way to trigger a scheduled task.
Also if a scheduled tasks is triggered by a page view then if the scheduled task takes time to run that visitor may have to wait some time for the page to display. This could loose you visitors or worse still if it was Googles search bot having to wait for the page to load could lower your search ranking which now also take in to account how long pages take to load on your website.
When considering new features, it maybe a great idea, but you also have to consider how the feature would be implemented and it's impact on performance and security.
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Posted: 27 December 2015 at 5:19pm |
I'm looking for a way to do this too. Is it possible to do this now? Or maybe not even delete them but archive them to some sort of old sub section. http://gold.com - gold
PedrooCury wrote:
This would be also very important for me... also for
sales announcements. It could have the option to delete post, hide or
move to another forum (I prefere moving so I can keep track later).
This
could be done with a everyday schedule task that run a script that
checks wahtever need to be done in a dayly basis to get to the Ex: if today date =
expiration date for a topic -> take action and reset expiration
dates.
Another feature that can help ads announcements (or
whatever) would be to have a button that show only to the user that
created the topic asking to close the topic - So users that already sold
their products can ask for moderators to close, move, hide or delete
it. Or even better... If moderators can set a default action for this
button... like move the topic to another forum... |
Edited by Apolite - 30 September 2016 at 1:10pm
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