Show (count) new entries in groups
By Markus Söth
Hi,
I am searching for a solution to count the newest entries in a group. I already have now a menu of the groups I am a member. It would be nice to see in the menu if there are new entries..
Just like the behaviour Facebook offers for the groups.
example:
- GroupOne (3)
- CoolGroup (134)
- AnotherGroupname (56)
Any Idea (Can't find anything using google ;-)
Kind regards
Markus Söth
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- Steve Clay@steve_clay
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- Markus Söth@elektroluder
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You must log in to post replies.I'm going to assume by "entry" you mean new ElggObjects in a group, and by "new" you mean "things I haven't viewed".
This going to be difficult because Elgg doesn't keep track of things "viewed" by individual users; you'll have to record all that. When a group-contained entity is created, make a relationship called "unviewed{$group_guid}" between the entity and the group's members (you'll probably want to use a direct DB query for this). When a user "views" the entity (however you define that), you'll remove the relationship. And also make a cron job that deletes these relationships over N months old.
But that would give you a way to count unread for each group displayed.
Could be a useful plugin!
Hi @Steve Clay,
thanks for your support. Ok.. this looks like a bigger job...
So I will put that in the qeue..
But you are right .. could be usefull especially for people who don't show up evry day
Kind regards
Markus