Thread Tools and Subscribed Threads

[JimmyHAD]

I've posted this a long time ago and thought it deserves to be brought up again for anyone who isn't aware of it. At the top of the original post you will see a tool bar that has a button named "Thread Tools" If you click on it a menu appears offering the option to "subscribe to this thread".

If you click on that a window appears with a prompt repeating the command and when you click on that the thread will be placed in your "User CP" (control panel) an can be accessed there until you choose to unsubscribe. The User CP is in the tool bar at the top of the SRP page just under the logo.

I currently have over fifty subscribed threads with pertinent information that I can go to when I need to reread a thread on a specific topic. A really great resource for saving threads that are of particular interest.

[hoglahoo]

And don't forget you can view your subscriptions here (accessed via the UserCP's left-side menu)

There you can create different subscription folders to sort your subscribed threads for easy reference. For example, maybe you want to contribute to two different wiki articles and you are gathering helpful information in the forum - you can create a subscription folder for each of the threads you think you might want to use and have them all in one place that way for future reference. Or maybe you like to separate your subscribed honing threads from stropping threads. Or maybe you are researching razor brands for the brands database in the wiki - you can create folders for each brand you dig up info on for culling and consolidation. These are just some ideas

Explore all the menus you have available - there are lots of little forum goodies like this da bomb (AKA dwessell PBUH) has granted us

[AlanII]

This is as good a thread as any to post this question I have that has been bugging me for a while. The multi-quote option? How does it work? I realise I'm just being dumb, but I can't for the life of me figure it out or find a place on the site that explains it. Please, somebody, put me out of my ignorant misery.

[hoglahoo]

I am pretty sure it is currently broken here. You should be able to select whatever posts you want to quote by checking the little boxes, and then clicking multi-quote and the resulting edit window would paste in all the quotes from the posts you selected

[AlanII]

I am pretty sure it is currently broken here. You should be able to select whatever posts you want to quote by checking the little boxes, and then clicking multi-quote and the resulting edit window would paste in all the quotes from the posts you selected

Ok, thanks. That makes sense.

[dwessell]

Multi Quote works fine, so far as I can tell.. I've tested in new builds of Chrome, IE, and FF all on XP. You press the MQ button on each post that you want to respond to. And on the final one, click the quote button.

dw

[fritz]

Multi Quote works fine, so far as I can tell.. I've tested in new builds of Chrome, IE, and FF all on XP. You press the MQ button on each post that you want to respond to. And on the final one, click the quote button.

dw

Thanks! Works just fine!

Now, if we could just edit our favorite smilies...

[smokelaw1]

This is as good a thread as any to post this question I have that has been bugging me for a while. The multi-quote option? How does it work? I realise I'm just being dumb, but I can't for the life of me figure it out or find a place on the site that explains it. Please, somebody, put me out of my ignorant misery.

Hit the multi-quote button on whichever you want to multi quote, and then hit reply, or just "quote" on the last one.

I am pretty sure it is currently broken here. You should be able to select whatever posts you want to quote by checking the little boxes, and then clicking multi-quote and the resulting edit window would paste in all the quotes from the posts you selected

Or, use the procedure above!

Ok, thanks. That makes sense.

Now it makes less.

Multi Quote works fine, so far as I can tell.. I've tested in new builds of Chrome, IE, and FF all on XP. You press the MQ button on each post that you want to respond to. And on the final one, click the quote button.

dw

oops...What he said, just realize he already gave the answer while I was busy be snarky.

[hoglahoo]

That sequence doesn't work for me - how odd

[hoglahoo]

Multi Quote works fine, so far as I can tell.. I've tested in new builds of Chrome, IE, and FF all on XP. You press the MQ button on each post that you want to respond to. And on the final one, click the quote button.

dw

Thanks! Works just fine!

Now, if we could just edit our favorite smilies...

ok now it works

[edit - it worked just now in this thread, but not in other threads. I am still testing. PS this is the first time it ever worked for me on SRP]
[edit2 - now it just worked in the thread that it did not work in two minutes ago. This is so annoying it's fun ]