This is a usability issue. I quite often forget to set-up to receive mail notifications to my Topic or Reply simply because the DropDownList "Topic Subscription Notification Type" is too low on the screen.

The InstantForum is very good product but it uses too much of the screen space for repetitive information. For example:

Subject: "Please provide a descriptive subject."
Description: "You may provide an optional description to help identify your post."

Those extra description take too much space and may be useful to the first time users, but in time they become redundant. Anyway there is a way to provide extra description when hovering with a mouse over the Subject as it is done with a small box right to the field.

Anyway I see this is the main reason why important field like "Topic Subscription Notification Type" don't come to the attention of the user as they should.

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To go back to my topic - is there a way to move the DropDownList somewhere else in the screen?

Robert

Many thanks for your post. We will certainly consider your comments with further updates.

With regards to editing the position of the subscription dropdownlist on post.ascx you will need to open , if you edit Skins\[SkinName]\Controls\PostControl.ascx

You will notice towards the bottom the ddlSubscriptionType control. Please remember not to remove any controls with the Runat="Server" attribute as these are required by the code-behind.

Hope this helps,


Kindest Regards,

Ryan Healey
Director / Developer

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