Recent discussion view does not reflect read state

[Oliver F.]

Filed a new bug:

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The "Recent Discussions" view does not reflect the read state of the corresponding forum entries.
As the only criteria for selection of entries is the creation date of the post it is impossible to distinguish whether a "Re: your topic" post is new or the one from yesterday. In the worst case there are are several posts with the same topic which can not be distinguished unless one opens the discussion forum. However if one has to open the forum to see the unread posts the view is useless.

Another issue: There should be a way to display a "full qualified path" of the post. Actually it is impossible to see which topic a post is in unless fully qualified names are used in the topic title (wg. posts like "Introduction","Architecture" etc.)
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I am aware that EA is not meant to be a collaboration tool but as it delivers collaborative modelling and even a forum, it should be done in a useful way. Actually I found it hard to scan through the "Recents posts" list to figure out what is new and affects me, especially if 20 architects will be working on 80 features each being covered by a separate topic.

Oliver

[Oliver F.]

The answer from Sparx is that they have filed it as a feature request as by design the purpose of the Recent Post view is to show posts from a parameterisable period of time.
The feature might be realised some day.

As long as this is the fact I am afraid I have to refrain from using the Recent Posts view as for me it is useless in its current state.

Oliver