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Re: Message search by numbers


 

Hi Shal,

In stumbling around the various options, first I tried Admin./Activity/Message activity. The first ¡°sort¡± shown was only messages posted since the migration to Groups.io numbered #1 (10/30/19). The page index at the bottom said 1-100 of 715. But somehow message #123 showed up on this page. (???)

Now when I go there I see that following message #25 is message #53503 with message #53574 being the last showing. Clearly these are not assigned numbers according to date and time, but mostly by ¡°Topic¡± and THEN date and time (sigh). Due to ¡°subject drift¡± I find ¡°topic¡± only useful in finding the start of a particular ¡°thread¡± after which a date-sequence presentation is better to follow up with when researching aircraft maintenance, etc. topics (which often recur anew over the years).

If I instead forget Admin. And just go to ¡°Messages¡± I get a presentation that appears to be message numbers sequentially assigned by topic/date/time, latest first. Clicking on ¡°Date¡± it reverses the sequencer to oldest first. For the great majority of messages, this IS a "sort by message number" presentation.

For reference purposes, that works (primarily because of the ¡°Msg #¡± box for lookup. That jumps one to a given message someone else uses as a reference MUCH quicker than plowing forward or backward (even at 100/page without unlimited scroll).

Best!

WRB

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On Jan 11, 2020, at 3:31 PM, Shal Farley <shals2nd@...> wrote:

WRB,

Presumably those, too, have been assigned a ¡°message number¡±. How
would one similarly view and search those by message number?
At the time of the import, the imported messages would be assigned sequential numbers, starting at one greater than any message already posted in the group. New messages after the import would continue sequentially from there.

Once you open one of the imported messages, you can page through them by message number. But I don't know of any way to get a list of messages by message number rather than date order.

I presume a request to include message numbers in above sequential
date and time listing would go to Beta?
Correct. Sort by number would be a new option on the Messages list.

Shal

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