topic Re: Strange behaviour of page layout in the SAS Global Forum community in All Things Community

Strange behaviour of page layout in the SAS Global Forum community

Kurt_Bremser — Thu, 21 Mar 2019 14:30:40 GMT

I have set my "Linear Layout" in the preferences to display newest messages first, which works well in all forums.

But when I enter a multi-page thread in the SAS GF 2019 group like https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Global-Forum-2019/What-to-do-in-Dallas/gpm-p/538012, I always end up on the "last" page, which for me means the beginning of the thread, even when I explicitly navigate to page 1.

This happens only in the SAS GF community, as far as I can determine.

PS using the included link immediately lands me on page 2 of 4, which is also kind of strange.

ChrisHemedinger — Thu, 21 Mar 2019 16:16:59 GMT

@Kurt_Bremser If you examine the URL for the link you shared, it's actually:

which directs the page to get you to the first message in the thread that you haven't yet read.

Kurt_Bremser — Thu, 21 Mar 2019 17:09:17 GMT

Yeah, but the first unread message is on page 1, which I cannot reach when "newest first" is set. When I click on the "1", I end up on page 4.

Kurt_Bremser — Fri, 22 Mar 2019 06:48:46 GMT

Hi!

Some more information:

When I navigate from my Notifications page to a specific post, I get the correct (#1 because of my "newest first" order) page, and the selected post.

So there is a reroute for the physical page 1 address, and this results in the system not correctly honoring the selected sort order for posts.