Topic update/modified timestamp

razibal

I wasn't sure whether this beloged in 'Gneral Discussion' or here since its more of a query than a formal feature request.

I noticed that the topic 'modified time' is based on the 'published time' or the timestamp of the last reply ( whichever is later). From my perspective it should also reflect the timestamp for the topic itself. I have a use case for help/news topics in categories that disallow user replies. For these topics, it would be helpful if the modified timestamp would update based on the last edit as these types of topics can, and do, need content changes from time to time.

<baris>

Are you referring to this code.

{
	property: 'article:modified_time',
	content: utils.toISOString(topicData.lastposttime),
},

If so we would have to modify that to Math.max(topicData.lastposttime, topicMainPost.edited)

razibal

Yes, that would take care of the metadata. I was hoping that there might be a mechanism to update the topic itself as an edited help or news article should bubble up to the 'Recent Topics' view. Ideally this would only be applicable to certain categories as you wouldn't want users to bump their topics to the top of the list with edits.

<baris>

Mark Unread For All in the topic tools menu bumps a topic to the top of /recent /unread.

<baris>

I created an issue for the update of the meta tag https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/issues/11432

razibal

@baris, that works for me.
Is there an API call to mark unread for all? I would like to be able to programmitically set to unread whenever a topic is updated by our CMS.

<baris>

It is exposed as a socket.io call socket.emit('markAsUnreadForAll', arrayOfTids) or you can call it on the server side with await topics.markAsUnreadForAll(topicId);

There is no write api endpoint for it AFAIK.

julian

We can get this route implemented for v3.1.0

https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/issues/11435

razibal

@baris @julian Thats great!