Request/Suggestion: Customizable Portal

[jonathan lall]

Hey Brandon, know what'd be wicked-cool? If users could customize what forums' new posts appeared in their portal page through the Control Panel. That way one could tune out the psychobabble going on in Website/Design Showcase, but never miss a question in FIRST Jeopardy, for example. I don't know if that would be easy to do, but if so, it'd be a great improvement. Since some of us already have different portals based on user permissions, I was wondering if we could make it user-customizable. Just a thought...

[Brandon Martus]

That is possible, with a little work. I'll add it to my todo list. It will also let people add the Chit-Chat back onto the portal, for those who want it to show up.

[Joshua May]

Originally Posted by jonathan lall

Hey Brandon, know what'd be wicked-cool? If users could customize what forums' new posts appeared in their portal page through the Control Panel. That way one could tune out the psychobabble going on in Website/Design Showcase, but never miss a question in FIRST Jeopardy, for example. I don't know if that would be easy to do, but if so, it'd be a great improvement. Since some of us already have different portals based on user permissions, I was wondering if we could make it user-customizable. Just a thought...

Good idea, I'd really like to be able to weed out some of the forums and get to the one's I really participate in.

[Astronouth7303]

I like that Idea. I use the New Posts link a lot. But I only really need it for FVG, FIRSTwiki, openFIRST, and Chit-Chat. (yes, useful stuff comes up there.)

[Katie Reynolds]

Originally Posted by Astronouth7303

I like that Idea. I use the New Posts link a lot. But I only really need it for FVG, FIRSTwiki, openFIRST, and Chit-Chat. (yes, useful stuff comes up there.)

For now, you can always subscribe to those forums and use you Control Panel to see when new posts are showing up.

To subscribe to a forum:
Go into the forum
Click "Forum Tools"
Click "Subscribe to Forum"

To check your subscribed forums:
Click on "Used CP" (up top)
Look at "Subscribed Forums"
This will show the last post in the forum, so you can see if you've missed anything!