Order of Social Group Discussions in 3.8

[Big-K]

In 3.8, the latest social group posts are moved to the end and users have to click and scoll to the end. Is there a way to reverse this order and have the latest posts show up on top? Or make it work like regular forum where you get directed to the latest post? Thanks

[Lynne]

Have you tried looking at the code and changing the order there? I have not seen any option in the user cp to change it.

[SuperJETT]

I have had a few requests to do that as well.

The problem is that if there are enough posts since you read it, you'd have to go a page forward, read the new stuff, then come back to read the most recent.

There is no 'go to first new post' link, and I don't think that functionality is part of the code yet.

[jambo_1969]

I really need this changed as well - which php file is used so that I can go check ?

[Lynne]

Go to the page that you want to change and look at the url and the do=xxx request and then look at that page in the do=xxx area.

[jambo_1969]

Originally Posted by Lynne

Go to the page that you want to change and look at the url and the do=xxx request and then look at that page in the do=xxx area.

Nope...tried that, but the group.php file is a little bit daunting

[Lynne]

You are talking about when you view a discussion, right? If so, it says do=discuss in the url. So, go to that part of the code where it says "if ($_REQUEST['do'] == 'discuss')" which is around line 2139. Reading that code leads you to "vB_Group_Collection_Factory" which leads you to includes/class_groupmessage.php which leads you to a query around lines 1062 and after. There is an ORDER BY in the query and it looks like there is a hook right above there. So, I'd play with that.

(Note, this was a quick one minute search that I didn't put much effort into. I think that is the right one, but I could be wrong. But, just follow the code...)

[Big-K]

Ok Folks, Here's the solution I found

In group.php, look for

// Create message collection
$collection_factory =& new vB_Group_Collection_Factory($vbulletin, $group);
$collection = $collection_factory->create('message', $discussion['discussionid'], $vbulletin->GPC['pagenumber'], $perpage, false);

Change "false" to 'true' and you'll have your messages in reverse order.