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This is a useful feature I have seen on other forums to be able to display only the posts by a specific member in a specific thread.
This makes it much easier to try and find a specific posts another member has made in large threads, and would allow members to find key posts without having to always use the sites search engine...
Here is a visual example of what I am suggesting:
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As you can see, like GTP, for each board on HTF threads are listed showing the number of replies and views. The number of replies is also a link to a pop-up window listing all the names of the members and the number of times they have posted in the thread - also sorted by who has posted the most.
However, HTF, like some other forums also places a link on the number showing the number of times they have posted in the thread, which if clicked opens a new window displaying the thread, but showing ONLY the posts by that specific member.
It is a very useful feature for finding posts buried deep in a thread without exhausting the sites resources with various searches. In some cases, unless a post has some really unique word in it, even searches can come up either empty, or with so many unrelated hits that they end up being of no use.
In the case of HTF, a shortcut to showing all the posts by one member in a thread is to simply add &onlybyuserid= and the members ID number to the end of the URL for any given thread.
I thought maybe the same might be true with GTP threads, but unfortunately that feature in vBulletin has to be activated first.
If it is possible to add this feature to GTP, I certainly would find it very helpful, and I suspect others might prefer to use that as well instead of doing multiple searches.
Thanks for your consideration.
This makes it much easier to try and find a specific posts another member has made in large threads, and would allow members to find key posts without having to always use the sites search engine...
Here is a visual example of what I am suggesting:
(click both pics to enlarge)
As you can see, like GTP, for each board on HTF threads are listed showing the number of replies and views. The number of replies is also a link to a pop-up window listing all the names of the members and the number of times they have posted in the thread - also sorted by who has posted the most.
However, HTF, like some other forums also places a link on the number showing the number of times they have posted in the thread, which if clicked opens a new window displaying the thread, but showing ONLY the posts by that specific member.
It is a very useful feature for finding posts buried deep in a thread without exhausting the sites resources with various searches. In some cases, unless a post has some really unique word in it, even searches can come up either empty, or with so many unrelated hits that they end up being of no use.
In the case of HTF, a shortcut to showing all the posts by one member in a thread is to simply add &onlybyuserid= and the members ID number to the end of the URL for any given thread.
I thought maybe the same might be true with GTP threads, but unfortunately that feature in vBulletin has to be activated first.
If it is possible to add this feature to GTP, I certainly would find it very helpful, and I suspect others might prefer to use that as well instead of doing multiple searches.
Thanks for your consideration.
When you use “Search this Thread”, it doesn’t just search the posts, but also usernames, so it works for what you want to do.
Cool! What other features are with the upgrades? 
