Change the title of a message?

[manguish]

If i edit any post titles in my forum the MAIN displayed title in the forum doesn`t change, but the one in the thread does.

Any clues?

[Floris]

Hi there

Goto the thread tools from the top of the thread and click edit thread, there you can change the subject.


Good luck.

[manguish]

Cheers.

I was just editing the post

[Floris]

Yep Bit confusing, but:

- Thread title ... edit it with the thread tools > edit thread
- Post title ... edit it with the edit button in the post.

For the first post, this can be confusing Probably because if you have set the edit time to 5 hours, and edit it within those 5 hours, it updates the thread title or post title too, and if you edit it after, it will only update the post - and not the thread title.

[ericruhl]

I don't see the "Edit Thread" option unless I'm logged in as admin. The only means I see to change the thread title as a normal user is to edit the first post and even then it has to be within the alloted time limits.

Which brings me to the reason I searched/found this thread... how do I allow thread title changes indefinitely? If I set it to zero it doesn't allow editing indefinitely like it does for adding a poll or editing posts. Setting the thread title time to zero disables the ability altogether. I tried -1 and leaving it blank but that behaves the same as zero. For now I just put in a huge number. How do I allow indefinite editing of thread titles? Is there a reason not to?

[Steve Machol]

There is no way to set this 'indefinitely' For now just set it to a very large number.

[Floris]

I don't see the "Edit Thread" option unless I'm logged in as admin. The only means I see to change the thread title as a normal user is to edit the first post and even then it has to be within the alloted time limits.

Which brings me to the reason I searched/found this thread... how do I allow thread title changes indefinitely? If I set it to zero it doesn't allow editing indefinitely like it does for adding a poll or editing posts. Setting the thread title time to zero disables the ability altogether. I tried -1 and leaving it blank but that behaves the same as zero. For now I just put in a huge number. How do I allow indefinite editing of thread titles? Is there a reason not to?

It is an admin feature, so that is why a user can't change it after the set timeout for editing posts.