Is there an option to view only new topics or topics with unread updates?

[John Stagaman]

After entering a forum section (e.g. Service Manager), is there any way to display only topics which are new or have unread updates since your last login? 

The option is fairly common on forum software, but I can't seem to find an option here for similar functionality.

[Dennis Handly]

If you go to that SM board, I see all of the topics with new posts at the top:

http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/HP-Service-Manager-Service/bd-p/itrc-695

Under my preferences I have:

http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/user/myprofilepage/tab/user-preferences%3Ageneral

Sort topics by time of most recent post [X]

Unfortunately there is nothing that changes the order after you've read it, so you'll have to ignore entries with 0 in the New column.

[John Stagaman]

Actually I had that selected. But I found the problem, It sorts as set ONLY when you look within a single topic. BUT, Service Manager has three forums and I normally select the option to See All so that I view all the topics in one list.

The combined view does not sort by last updated no matter how the preferences are configured. 

If I look at each forum topic separately, they do correctly sort by last update. 

[Dennis Handly]

>The combined view does not sort by last updated no matter how the preferences are configured.

That's correct.  There have been previous complaints about that.

http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/Community-Feedback-Suggestions/Sort-Order-when-using-quot-View-All-quot/m-p/4814411

http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/tag/post%20order/tg-p/board-id/community-feedback-suggestions

You have two choices, none are good:

http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/forums/recentpostspage/category-id/sws-SMgr/post-type/thread

http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/forums/recentpostspage/category-id/sws-SMgr/post-type/message