How-to question

[mangomandan]

On this board is there a way to "save" particular postings?

There are already quite a few topics that I would like to refer back to in the future.  Even if I forget they exist in the meantime.

I'm going to try the feature of emailing a link (to myself, in this case).   I was just curious if there is another means.

[Ethan]

I'm sure there is a much higher tech way to do it but worse case, create an index page in a word doc.  Briefly describe the posting you are interested in then cut and past the URL next to the description.

Mr. Low Tech,
-Ethan

[murahilin]

In my attempts to add a bookmarking feature last night, I broke the entire forum. I will get a bookmark button to work where you can press "bookmark" at the top of a topic and it will save it to your bookmarks. I will just experiment on a test forum and not risk losing this entire forum again. That's why most people lost their avatars.

[pj1881 (Patrick)]

We are operating a modified version of a simple machines forum.  By modifying the original template we added quite a few features that are not standard to the generic install, things like the ability to have a custom title, users maps, image upload, and spam filtering are all items custom added.  Unfortunately this custom template was not compatible to the bookmark feature... We will be working on ways to improve this template as times goes on.. Sorry about the avatars! Please reupload them!!

[murahilin]

If you don't want to lose your avatars if we do have to restore in the future, do as Oscar did and "Specify avatar from URL". That means that the avatar is not hosted on our forum so if we have to backup we don't lose your avatar. The backups don't save the avatars but only text.

[mangomandan]

We are operating a modified version of a simple machines forum.  By modifying the original template we added quite a few features that are not standard to the generic install, things like the ability to have a custom title, users maps, image upload, and spam filtering are all items custom added.  Unfortunately this custom template was not compatible to the bookmark feature... We will be working on ways to improve this template as times goes on.. Sorry about the avatars! Please reupload them!!

Many thanks for trying, gentlemen.   For now I'll try Ethan's idea.  It seems simple enough for a non-tech guy like me.