How do you jump to a page in an AAR

Disco Duck · Post by **Disco Duck** » Wed Mar 13, 2013 12:30 pm

I am starting to read some of the longer AAR's. What is the easiest way to jump to a page within it?

Lokasenna · Post by **Lokasenna** » Wed Mar 13, 2013 12:37 pm

Add "&mpage=X" to the URL, where X is the page number.

witpqs · Post by **witpqs** » Wed Mar 13, 2013 1:02 pm

Anyone know how to jump to the 'last' page, regardless of how many pages there are?

Bullwinkle58 · Post by **Bullwinkle58** » Wed Mar 13, 2013 1:06 pm

ORIGINAL: witpqs

Anyone know how to jump to the 'last' page, regardless of how many pages there are?

In the top right "Page" line click on the ">>" symbol and it goes to the last page. Works everywhere on the forum, not just AARs. The "<<" takes you to the first.

witpqs · Post by **witpqs** » Wed Mar 13, 2013 1:26 pm

ORIGINAL: Bullwinkle58

ORIGINAL: witpqs

Anyone know how to jump to the 'last' page, regardless of how many pages there are?

In the top right "Page" line click on the ">>" symbol and it goes to the last page. Works everywhere on the forum, not just AARs. The "<<" takes you to the first.

I'm actually looking for something I can save as a bookmark. That button has the last page number in it, so if you save it as a bookmark it will always go to that page. After a few more posts, when that that page is no longer the last page, it will still go to that page (not the new last page).

Bullwinkle58 · Post by **Bullwinkle58** » Wed Mar 13, 2013 2:20 pm

ORIGINAL: witpqs

ORIGINAL: Bullwinkle58

ORIGINAL: witpqs

Anyone know how to jump to the 'last' page, regardless of how many pages there are?

In the top right "Page" line click on the ">>" symbol and it goes to the last page. Works everywhere on the forum, not just AARs. The "<<" takes you to the first.
I'm actually looking for something I can save as a bookmark. That button has the last page number in it, so if you save it as a bookmark it will always go to that page. After a few more posts, when that that page is no longer the last page, it will still go to that page (not the new last page).

I'm not sure what you're after then. Live, the ">>" symbol always takes you to the current last page. If you want to bookmark a specific page, can't you Favorite the whole URL for it?

jeffk3510 · Post by **jeffk3510** » Wed Mar 13, 2013 2:29 pm

He is wanting a bookmark that every time he clicks on the link it takes him to the most current page in that AAR.

Bullwinkle58 · Post by **Bullwinkle58** » Wed Mar 13, 2013 2:33 pm

ORIGINAL: jeffk3510

He is wanting a bookmark that every time he clicks on the link it takes him to the most current page in that AAR.

OK, again, if viewing the forum, the ">>" symbol in the Page line does that.

Or, if you're on the AAR lisitng page every AAR has a list of recent pages under the title and the last one is always there too.

If you want to enter the forum from another Web site already on the last page of a specific AAR I don't think you can.

witpqs · Post by **witpqs** » Wed Mar 13, 2013 2:56 pm

ORIGINAL: Bullwinkle58

ORIGINAL: jeffk3510

He is wanting a bookmark that every time he clicks on the link it takes him to the most current page in that AAR.

OK, again, if viewing the forum, the ">>" symbol in the Page line does that.

Or, if you're on the AAR lisitng page every AAR has a list of recent pages under the title and the last one is always there too.

If you want to enter the forum from another Web site already on the last page of a specific AAR I don't think you can.

This one! I just figured for my AAR it would be nice to have a link that went straight to the end to add my latest entry. After doing that is when I back up to check on comments.

Bullwinkle58 · Post by **Bullwinkle58** » Wed Mar 13, 2013 2:59 pm

ORIGINAL: witpqs

ORIGINAL: Bullwinkle58

ORIGINAL: jeffk3510

He is wanting a bookmark that every time he clicks on the link it takes him to the most current page in that AAR.

OK, again, if viewing the forum, the ">>" symbol in the Page line does that.

Or, if you're on the AAR lisitng page every AAR has a list of recent pages under the title and the last one is always there too.

If you want to enter the forum from another Web site already on the last page of a specific AAR I don't think you can.
This one! I just figured for my AAR it would be nice to have a link that went straight to the end to add my latest entry. After doing that is when I back up to check on comments.

I the past you've schooled me on how to use Google for advanced forum searches, so I think your expertise in this area exceeds mine. I'm old school I guess. After DOS I don't mind one . . . extra . . . click. [:'(]

witpqs · Post by **witpqs** » Wed Mar 13, 2013 3:29 pm

ORIGINAL: Bullwinkle58

ORIGINAL: witpqs

ORIGINAL: Bullwinkle58

OK, again, if viewing the forum, the ">>" symbol in the Page line does that.

Or, if you're on the AAR lisitng page every AAR has a list of recent pages under the title and the last one is always there too.

If you want to enter the forum from another Web site already on the last page of a specific AAR I don't think you can.
This one! I just figured for my AAR it would be nice to have a link that went straight to the end to add my latest entry. After doing that is when I back up to check on comments.

I the past you've schooled me on how to use Google for advanced forum searches, so I think your expertise in this area exceeds mine. I'm old school I guess. After DOS I don't mind one . . . extra . . . click. [:'(]

[:D]! The perfectionist in us always wants a little more...

Spending so much effort trying to avoid that one click reminds me of a story. Years ago in a technical class the instructor told us about an (at the time somewhat) old IBM operating system. The greatest criticism of it was that it spent sooo much time trying to decide "what's the most efficient thing I can do next? Hmmm..." [:D]

Panther Bait · Post by **Panther Bait** » Wed Mar 13, 2013 4:50 pm

If you hover your cursor over the "go to latest post" link on the After Action Reports page for the AAR in question, you can get a sense for the URL link that will take you to the latest post. The last piece of the URL seems to be "&go=last". Not sure if adding that to your link URL would always take you to the last post or not. Unfortunately I'm not that HTML/URL literate to know this.

Mike

Panther Bait · Post by **Panther Bait** » Wed Mar 13, 2013 5:00 pm

Tried a few things and the shortcut needs to be:

http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/fb.asp?m=XXXXXXX&go=last

Where the XXXXXXX should be the forum id for the thread you want to view. You can get that number by visting the thread and reading the active URL after "m=". That should take you directly to the last post regardless of how many posts there are.

Mike

Bullwinkle58 · Post by **Bullwinkle58** » Wed Mar 13, 2013 5:23 pm

ORIGINAL: witpqs

ORIGINAL: Bullwinkle58

ORIGINAL: witpqs

This one! I just figured for my AAR it would be nice to have a link that went straight to the end to add my latest entry. After doing that is when I back up to check on comments.

I the past you've schooled me on how to use Google for advanced forum searches, so I think your expertise in this area exceeds mine. I'm old school I guess. After DOS I don't mind one . . . extra . . . click. [:'(]
[:D]! The perfectionist in us always wants a little more...

Spending so much effort trying to avoid that one click reminds me of a story. Years ago in a technical class the instructor told us about an (at the time somewhat) old IBM operating system. The greatest criticism of it was that it spent sooo much time trying to decide "what's the most efficient thing I can do next? Hmmm..." [:D]

"Rube Goldberg built a machine to peel an apple . . ."

witpqs · Post by **witpqs** » Wed Mar 13, 2013 5:24 pm

Thank you very much!

I had tried some experiments in the past but never hit on that syntax. Just FYI to anyone trying it, it's a little tricky to save the bookmark with that syntax because it gets converted to a different link when it opens the page, but you aren't allowed to save it as a bookmark until after it opens the page. The procedure to save it as a book mark is:

- Save a bookmark (it doesn't really matter what).
- Edit the bookmark, replacing the URL with what Panther Bait just provided (and editing in the forum number as instructed). Also make the bookmark name and so on be what you want.

Very nice - thank you! [:)]

Lokasenna · Post by **Lokasenna** » Wed Mar 13, 2013 5:24 pm

ORIGINAL: Panther Bait

Tried a few things and the shortcut needs to be:

http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/fb.asp?m=XXXXXXX&go=last

Where the XXXXXXX should be the forum id for the thread you want to view. You can get that number by visting the thread and reading the active URL after "m=". That should take you directly to the last post regardless of how many posts there are.

Mike

This will take you to the last post, yes.

This forum doesn't appear to use a structure similar to other forums where you might be able to keep a "dynamic" bookmark for unread posts. When you go to the first unread post, the post number is generated for the link that shows up each time you log in rather than being something like "#unread" or "#new".

Panther Bait · Post by **Panther Bait** » Wed Mar 13, 2013 6:45 pm

Based on the link in the AAR Main Page, the syntax to go to the latest unread post is something like:
 http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/fb.asp?m=XXXXXXX&go=newst&lastvisit=3/13/2013%201%3A01%3A52%20PM

 
But I assume that everything after "&lastvisit=" is dynamic information, probably coming out of your login account or the site's cookie or something like that.  I've noticed that sometimes when I log in from a different machine, I "lose" the last visit info (not completely but might not register the latest visit), but not always.  If you could figure out the code, and dynamically recreate it in your shortcut, you might be able to make a shortcut to the last unread post, but I really don't know how to do that.
 
Mike
 

Disco Duck · Post by **Disco Duck** » Thu Mar 14, 2013 3:24 pm

ORIGINAL: Lokasenna

Add "&mpage=X" to the URL, where X is the page number.

Thank you.

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