Forum Section

flashster · November 22nd, 2006, 11:13 AM

I think there may be an error here in the cacheing code for the forum section, but I'd appreciate if anyone else can confirm this:

When you edit a reply to any post in a forum thread, then return to the thread, the page does not show the changes. If you switch off the caching for the forum section by adding 'enableCaching ="false"' to the forums section in 'theBeerHouse' section of the web.config, the page shows the updated information whenever a reply is edited.

I am using IE 7.0, so I'd appreciate it if anyone else can confirm this error, before I attempt a fix.

Many thanks,

JJ

kherrerab · December 7th, 2006, 10:17 AM

iÂ´ve seen this happening on my site www.clubvwnica.com

you have to hit refresh to see the changes

does enableCaching ="false"' solves this?

flashster · December 7th, 2006, 10:27 AM

Hitting refresh doesn't cure the problem for me. I am using IE 7.

Switching off the caching is the only solution in the code as it stands, which isn't ideal.

I have contacted the book author about this, but he says that he did this on purpose as he felt that clearing the cache for every post edited/inserted would make the cache useless.

I personally think it is confusing and will lead to problems if a user cannot see the changes they have made to their post until they log out and log back in again.

I will get around to fixing this, but haven't the time right now. If anyone else does in the meantime, please post here.

JJ

flashster · December 7th, 2006, 10:31 AM

PS: Just though you should know that I could not access your site.

papalolo22 · December 10th, 2006, 05:07 PM

I am not having this problem in the forum section on my website. I set the enableCaching to "True" on both the
configuration.vb file(Forum section) and web.config file. I logged in as a user, went to the forum link (ShowForums.aspx)opens with some forum topics. Click on a topic, Show Threads.aspx opens a grid of threads. Click on a thread opeans an original post, with the EDIT icon on top. I edited the post--added some text and hit update. I see all the new added text and the date, when I went back to the thread page. Not sure if this is what you are trying to acehive. I am using IE 6 and latest firefox and the VB code.