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No worries Barry, get well soon <!-- s:) --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_smile.gif" alt="" title="Smile" /><!-- s:) -->

Feeling a little better now (I can actually face food again!) <!-- s:) --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_smile.gif" alt="" title="Smile" /><!-- s:) -->

I just got an update for the forum/site bidge that is supposed to have fixed one of the issues I was having where an external link pointing to a post on our forum would bring you to the index page instead. That appears to be fixed now, but the "new post" link seems to be worse! It just redirects to itself in a loop. It's hard to test without ne posts coming in, so I'm waiting...

I have to say, I never use that feature. I use the "View Latest Post" beside the authors name and just look for the orange icons beside a forum so I know there' new posts in there. But, it should work anyway! I'll get on to him and see if he can fix that.

The other issue Ken about the "View Posts Since Last Visit" bringing you back to tindex page. I could not reproduce this behaviour. You did say it was working for you ok again didn't you? It was not working for you at work, then it was working for you at home, and then it started working at work again wasn't that right? As I recall you did clear your cache, but I can't remember if that's what seemed to fix it for you. You were also getting the same behaviour when you clicked the members list, and again, I can't seem to get anyone else to reproduce this. Let me know if it's still an issue.

DrJohn, Your issue with the preview was resolved right? (and I did not do anything! <!-- s:) --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_smile.gif" alt="" title="Smile" /><!-- s:) -->)

Les, leaving any web page that uses sessions alone for a while will often cause problems. As the web is basically stateless, some web apps use sessions to keep track of what you are doing on the site. As there is limited resource on any server it does have to clean up now and again, and so there is a timeout value set. If you do nothing for longer than that time it will drop the session and when you click something it thinks you've just arrived again. This MAY be what is happening to you. I'll look into whether this is using session state (Session IDs do appear in the bridge code), but I may have no control over it as this site is hosted on a shared server.

One workaround is to type your message into notepad or something and just paste it in when you are happy. Means you could write your posts offline too <!-- s;) --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_wink.gif" alt="" title="Wink" /><!-- s;) -->

I've probably raised more questions than answering them <!-- s:) --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_smile.gif" alt="" title="Smile" /><!-- s:) -->

Thanks for the response. I have been using the 'view last post' button, but on busier topics I still find myself missing a few posts, or when the new post is the first one on a new page, I have to go back to the last page to double check.
It's fine, and does the job, but it would be nice is all.

Still, not bad if these are the only faults on a new site ,I guess.

Hi Barry,
to be honest I don't remember when it happens or if it got solved or anything - I have 5 different environments it can and does get used from <!-- s:) --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_smile.gif" alt="" title="Smile" /><!-- s:) --> Perhaps I should try and trace which works and which doesn't....

I hear ya. For the past couple of days I've been in workshops so havenb't been checking threads as regularly as usual, so I had the same thing on the busier threads where I'd have to scan back up to see where I left off.

No, it's not bad I suppose, but it does irritate me! And I don't like users being irritated by something that should be easy to fix.

The main problem is the bridge between the two components. I was thinking last night that maybe they should be separated. It would mean you would register with the forum to post there, and only need to register on the front page if you wanted to submit items or see things only registered users can see (nothing so far!). This would also give us the freedoom to upgrade the forum or the CMS independantly, which would be great. The only drawback is that I like the idea of a single sign on...

I may put up a poll to get users views.

Ok guys, I think this may be fixed. Medhi who wrote teh bridge signed up and tested and he'd never seen this before. On closer inspection I found the issue of the View New Post seemed to be part of the core forum software. I've removed the secion of code that was trying to do the redirect, and lo and behold, it seems to work. No idea why they had this redundant bit in, but [b:3uplxkik]please test it for me[/b:3uplxkik]!