Reading Messages

Reading a Specific Message
Displaying New Messages
Displaying Today's Messages
Marking Messages as Read

Reading a Specific Message

When you click a message on the Conferences list, the message appears in the message window (the right frame unless you are using no-frames mode). By default, all subsequent messages in the topic are also displayed so you can read the responses to the message you opened. This is called full topic view. You can change to viewing one message at a time by editing your user profile.

Follow these steps to read specific messages:

1. From the Conferences list, select the conference you want to view and click its name or the expansion box (+ icon).
   
   
2. Locate the topic you want to read and do one of the following:
   
   • Click the topic subject to display the topic message and responses in the message window. (If you have turned off Full topic view in your user profile, only the first message appears in the window.)
     
   • Click the topic expansion box to view a list of messages. Find the response message you want and click it to display that message and subsequent responses in the message window.
   
   
3. Read the message, scrolling if necessary. After reading the message, you may do any of the following:
   
   • To read the next message in a topic, scroll down or click the Next link at the top of the message window. If Next does not appear as a link, you are reading the last message in the topic.
     
   • To read the previous message, click the Previous link at the top of the message window. If Previous does not appear as a link, you are reading the first message in the topic.
     
   • To open the topic message and all responses so that you can scroll through them in order, click Entire Topic. To read another message from the expanded topic list, click the message in the conferences list.

Note You can have WebBoard watch a topic (a message thread) for you. When a new message is posted to the topic, WebBoard sends you an email, alerting you to the new message. To start watching a topic, check the Watch this Topic box at the end of a message. For more information, see Watching Topics and Conferences.

New messages are messages posted to a board since you last visited or since you manually marked all messages as read.

WebBoard has two ways you can get to new messages instantly. You can also view a list of messages posted today.

New Messages Link: Conferences List

At the top of the Conferences list is a Show All/New Messages link. Clicking this link switches between the full conference list and a list of conferences with new messages. When you click New, the list of conferences with new messages appears. To see the new messages, expand any conference listed. To read a message, click its name and it appears in the message window.

Tip To read a message in context, click Entire Topic in the message menu and then scroll through the topic and all response messages.

Displaying Today's Messages

Clicking the Today’s Messages link on the Options menu gives you a quick listing of all messages posted that day. When you click this link, the Today’s Messages list shows messages by the conference, subject, and time posted, with the oldest listed first in each conference. Each subject is a link to the actual message, which appears in the message window when you click it.

Marking Messages as Read

You have a choice of letting WebBoard automatically mark messages as read or marking them yourself.

To mark messages as read manually, follow these steps:

1. Click Options on the menubar to open the Options page.
   
2. Click Mark Conferences Read on the to open the Mark Conferences Read page.
   
3. To mark all messages read in a single conference, check the box next to that conference.
   
4. To mark all messages read in all conferences, check "All."
   
5. Click Save to submit your selections. WebBoard immediately marks the messages as read and refreshes the conferences list.
   
   

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