Inbox
Don D
9,834 Posts
There's no simple way to maneuver the inbox. If, for example, one has two or more messages in their Forum Inbox, there's not a way to read one, then go to another, if you respond to the one you read. You have to exit that, go to Lobby, click on Inbox, them wait for Inbox to come back up. Or I suppose one could click the back arrow four or five times and hope for the best, but that doesn't work either. Any way to improve this feature?
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I don't know anything about the Inbox (I disabled mine). Brian is trying to figure it out and will post something later.
James Sokolowski
HRhero.com
Here is a view of one of the messages in my Inbox. With this (in red box) you can either Delete the message, go to the Next or Previous message, or go back to the main page of your Inbox.
[url]http://www.hrhero.com/employersforum/Images/inbox-example2.gif[/url]
After replying to a message, you have several choices for navigation, and I added the Inbox button for returning to the main Inbox page. If you want to go back to the message you just replied to, just click "Go Back".
[url]http://www.hrhero.com/employersforum/Images/inbox-example3.gif[/url]
I hope this helps.
Brian Holaway
Electronic Publishing Assistant
M. Lee Smith Publishers LLC
There remains, however, no ability to delete an inbox message unless you return to the original field and click on delete. You cannot read and delete a message. As it is, all the undeleted messages you have received ad infinitum, appear on the menu list each time you return to your inbox, and then one has to go down the list of them, clicking on the delete box for each one. This is particularly tedious.
>inbox message unless you return to the original
>field and click on delete. You cannot read and
>delete a message.
Yes, you can read and delete a message. See the above graphic. There is a delete link on every message that allows you to read and delete as you go (on the left column....From, Subject, Date, Message, Delete). Or, as you said, you can return to the main list of all your messages, check all the messages you wish to delete, and then click the Delete button.
Brian Holaway
Electronic Publishing Assistant
M. Lee Smith Publishers LLC
>sent messages.
Good thought. The Inbox is and will likely continue to be an extremely limited feature. Adding more features (like sent items) will require programming that we don't really have time to do, especially when the feature is used by a limited number of people (less than 1% of registered users have accessed in the past month) and when there is a much better option already available (email).
I'd recommend just sticking with email. There are a lot of decent free programs out there that have some great options.
Thanks for the comments.
Brian Holaway
Electronic Publishing Assistant
M. Lee Smith Publishers LLC