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Topic: Thread page, Second Column - what's that icon about?
August 30th, 2006 10:45 AM
Annabella Hi all,

On the thread page, the fist column shows open/closed or hot topic icons.

Then there's a second column that sometimes shows whta looks like a yellow page of writing. What is that for?? It does not do anything if I click it and I cannot find any mention of it anywhere.

An example on this page http://s2.excoboard.com/exco/forum.php?forumid=100570

When I look the first 3 thread have the little yellow page and the 4 thread has a smiley face.

It's driving me CrAzY trying to find out what they are all about. HELP!! ??

Thanks so much for your help!


:)
August 30th, 2006 11:09 AM
Catchow That is called a posticon. It is used in part to set the tone or mood of the post. The paper with writing means that it is just a normal post and the smilie lets you know that someone is happy or is posting something funny/silly/happy.

On your features page in the cp you can choose to use them or not. Peter and Markus didn't use them on this board. sdn did use them on his board.
August 30th, 2006 11:29 AM
Annabella Ah hah!! Thank you SO much!!! :) :) :)

It was sending me round the twist trying to nut this one out! *LOL*

Cheers, Annabella


August 30th, 2006 11:39 AM
Annabella I've got another Q if you don't mind. :)

If I have that option turned off, then I assume there'd be no problem deleting that column entirely thru custom templates??

Thanks, Annabella
August 30th, 2006 11:43 AM
SivoxII Yup! ... not sure, but think that column would vanish automatically when you disable the feature? (trying to visualise it as I type)
August 30th, 2006 11:51 AM
Annabella Thanks - the column did not disappear when I turned it off - it was just an a narrow empty column.

Anyways, I went in and deleted the posticon column and tweaked the colspans to match and it worked beautifully!

Thanks so much for your help. I just did not want to delete it in case is was something vital!! Hehehe

Cheers, Annabella