Force Topic Read on Login

[stoo23]

I have a strange case occurring with this Mod'.

I have a Main active forum and a test forum (which is a very recent clone of the main forum), so in effect virtually identical (apart from a few new members).

I can get this to work exactly as desired/intended on the testforum, with a variety of messages/posts including the New 'New member greeting post I made just for this purpose ... YET, when trying to make That message appear on the Main forum, it will NOT work.

I can get it to show other topics, like my forum rules post and the descriptive post about the forum but no matter what I do, it will NOT show this new 'greeting' post on the main forum and Not just for me as Administrator, another member has tried along with myself and new accounts we have made,..

It seriously has me completely baffled,.. as the 2 x sites are to all intents and purposes, Identical !!

[stoo23]

Further to my post above, both forums are on the Same Server, running the same software and is ver' 2.1.4 of SMF.

[stoo23]

Well, I have at least temporarily, alleviated the issue, by Modifying an older message that was posted when the Forum was moved to it's new home (which had some useful Historical Info' for new members and added part of the Problematical (Non Displayable) Welcome message to that and it is working fine.

Seriously has me Beat, why the Message will Not work on the Main forum though

VERY Weird.

[stoo23]

For the most part, this seems to be working, (Mainly being used to present New Members with some information to read),... BUT, I  have a few much older members, who seem to keep being presented with the thread, Some virtually EVERY time they log in !!??

Any idea why ?? or what may be causing this ??
Obviously, they HAVE Read the thread,.. multiple times,.. LOL so I'm just wondering what may be causing this and hoping to find a way of stopping it happening for those older members who have seen the desired thread numerous times.

Any ideas or help/suggestions appreciated.
cheers

[Dave J]

VB,

This is all on a 2.1.4 test site as I want to get it working on my main site

For some reason I cannot get this to work on boards that have permissions set to other special groups who are not regular members.

I have a regular member - John, who can only see certain one board on the site
I have a special group member - Tester, who can see all boards on the site

i.e. I created a new category with boards inside so Tester can see it, but not John. When I create a topic in the new board and then enter it's topic number into the mod settings Tester is not being sent to the topic.

If I create a new topic in the board that John can see, Tester is sent to the topic the same as John is.

Any idea why Tester is not being sent to the category/boards that only he can see please?

[Cola-Coca]

This mod definitely doesn't work. I installed it without error. I put in the topic ID and turned on the mod. After that I registered as a new user and unfortunately it doesn't take me to the post I selected.

[TheBom]

This mod definitely doesn't work. I installed it without error. I put in the topic ID and turned on the mod. After that I registered as a new user and unfortunately it doesn't take me to the post I selected.

Got the same issue here. Maybe @SMFHacks.com Team can look into this?

[Cola-Coca]

This mod definitely doesn't work. I installed it without error. I put in the topic ID and turned on the mod. After that I registered as a new user and unfortunately it doesn't take me to the post I selected.

Got the same issue here. Maybe @SMFHacks.com Team can look into this?

You can use this:
https://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=591377.0

[TheBom]

This mod definitely doesn't work. I installed it without error. I put in the topic ID and turned on the mod. After that I registered as a new user and unfortunately it doesn't take me to the post I selected.

Got the same issue here. Maybe @SMFHacks.com Team can look into this?

You can use this:
https://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=591377.0

That will redirect them every time, that is not wanted. Thanks for linking!

[sudoku]

As I am only a user and not admin, I stay logged in to certain sites which I frequent often. Even when shutting down the device. I am the only user if those devices, btw.
On two iPads and my desktop computer.

If originally logged in from the desktop for instance, but subsequently log out from one of my iPads, upon going to the forum on the desktop and logging in, then I am greeted with the "Forced to Read" topic.

If however I log off from the device that I logged in on, then log back in on the same device or the other devices I do not see the "Forced to Read" topic but the home page of the forum as it should be.

I hope this helps anyone having this issue. I believe it is stored in the cookie of the first logged in device - at least that makes sense to me, I could be wrong. And if a second device logs in, the cookie is read, if it is not the device that logged out - the "Force to Read" Topic appears...

I hope this is articulated correctly and easily understandable.