[Building Sakai] Forums, Multiple Tab Restriction - Hidden Fields for replies instead?

[Trisha Gordon]

Anish,

I can't speak to your proposed method for doing so, but whatever can be 
done to capture a reply in spite of wonky and inaccurate Forums alerts 
is a WIN, IMHO.

Thanks for looking at this!
Trisha

On 10/23/14 10:55 AM, ANISH GOYAL wrote:
> To all,
>
> I noted on the JIRA that some issues are popping up with multiple tabs 
> in Forums.
>
> Namely, some users seem to report that this alert is popping up 
> despite the fact that they are using only a single tab, and have 
> restarted their browsers multiple times.
>
> (https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-27998)
>
> I haven't looked into forums too thoroughly at this point, but I was 
> considering the possibility of using hidden fields in reply pages to 
> track forum data so that replies are posted to the message regardless 
> of what other tabs are open, thus allowing for the tab count 
> restriction to be removed.
>
> I would assume that this would make a difference because if 
> inconsistent state causes messages to be posted in incorrect threads, 
> this data must be retrieved from the session itself.
>
> This would solve the issue of some users who are using a single tab 
> being told that they are using multiple tabs, and would prevent any 
> replies from being posted to the wrong message, which as demonstrated 
> in the steps in the JIRA, is possible.
>
> Does anyone have any input regarding such a change?
>
> Thanks,
> Anish
>
>
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