Icon Descriptions or Legend

[gbungart]

My users are requesting either a legend of what the various icons mean or just a description. Is something like this availablae. I have searched here and looked through the docs and not found anything. I too wonder what the meaning is behind some of the icons in ProSilver such as the one that scrolls.

Thanks

[KevC]

I posted this on my site.

Just change the URL to yours.

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Two general points
- Red icons are unread items, blue/grey are read
- A star on any topic means you have posted in it

[img]http://www.yoursite.co.uk/forum/styles/prosilver/imageset/announce_unread.gif[/img] - Announcement
[img]http://www.yoursite.co.uk/forum/styles/prosilver/imageset/sticky_unread.gif[/img] - Sticky topic
[img]http://www.yoursite.co.uk/forum/styles/prosilver/imageset/forum_read.gif[/img] - Read topic
[img]http://www.yoursite.co.uk/forum/styles/prosilver/imageset/topic_unread.gif[/img] - Unread topic
[img]http://www.yoursite.co.uk/forum/styles/prosilver/imageset/topic_read_mine.gif[/img] - Read topic that you have posted in 
[img]http://www.yoursite.co.uk/forum/styles/prosilver/imageset/topic_unread_mine.gif[/img] - Unread topic that you have posted in
[img]http://www.yoursite.co.uk/forum/styles/prosilver/imageset/topic_unread_hot.gif[/img] - Hot topic
[img]http://www.yoursite.co.uk/forum/styles/prosilver/imageset/topic_read_locked.gif[/img] - Locked topic
[img]http://www.yoursite.co.uk/forum/styles/prosilver/imageset/topic_moved.gif[/img] - Moved topic
[img]http://www.yoursite.co.uk/forum/styles/prosilver/imageset/forum_read_subforum.gif[/img] - Forum with subforums (which have been read)
[img]http://www.yoursite.co.uk/forum/styles/prosilver/imageset/forum_unread_subforum.gif[/img] - Forum with subforums (which are unread)
[img]http://www.yoursite.co.uk/forum/styles/prosilver/imageset/forum_link.gif[/img] - Link forum
[img]http://www.yoursite.co.uk/forum/styles/prosilver/imageset/icon_topic_attach.gif[/img] - Attachment
[img]http://www.yoursite.co.uk/forum/styles/prosilver/imageset/icon_topic_latest.gif[/img] - Go to last post in the topic
[img]http://www.yoursite.co.uk/forum/styles/prosilver/imageset/icon_topic_newest.gif[/img]  - Go to last unread post in the topic
[img]http://www.yoursite.co.uk/forum/styles/prosilver/imageset/subforum_read.gif[/img] - Subforum read
[img]http://www.yoursite.co.uk/forum/styles/prosilver/imageset/subforum_unread.gif[/img] - Subforum unread

[gbungart]

Perfect! Thank you so very much!!

[AngelicKim]

Hello, in this icon if there are scroll lines, what does this mean?

[KevC]

Hello, in this icon if there are scroll lines, what does this mean?

Which icon?

[AngelicKim]

The round icon to the left of a thread. Red means it has new post and if their is a star in it, it means you posted in it. But what does it mean if the lines in it are scrolling?

[A_Jelly_Doughnut]

It means it is a popular topic (more than 20 replies, if memory serves)

[KevC]

It means it's a popular topic.

In the admin panel >post settings
Popular topic threshold:

The default is 25 so if it hits 25 replies it scrolls.

[AngelicKim]

Thank you both so very much

[martrn]

Err I thing there might be one missing:

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https://www.yoursite.co.uk/forum/styles/prosilver/imageset/topic_read_hot.gif

Look:
Re: Icon Descriptions or Legend
Two general points
- Red icons are unread items, blue/grey are read
- A star on any topic means you have posted in it

- Announcement
- Sticky topic
- Read topic
- Unread topic
- Read topic that you have posted in
- Unread topic that you have posted in
- Hot topic
- Locked topic
- Moved topic
- Forum with subforums (which have been read)
- Forum with subforums (which are unread)
- Link forum
- Attachment
- Go to last post in the topic
- Go to last unread post in the topic
- Subforum read
- Subforum unread

[KevC]

7th one down covers it ok I think. I don't have every red and blue icon possible cos it's not hat hard to work them out.

[Lilly2]

What does it mean if there is a question mark in front of a topic???

[KevC]

What does it mean if there is a question mark in front of a topic???

The ? icon is one of the standard topic icons available.

[HansJot]

I would really like to propose, that an explanation of the icons as shown above, as a legend, is included by default into all the php Bulletin Boards via some link or so...

I've visited now several boards (many of them were from the php-Group), and never found there those explanations, until I came here!
This is rather cumbersome, in fact...

Forums from other sources, e.g. the Opera forum, do have this, of course.

Additionally, I would want to have an icon, which clearly distinguishes a thread, which I have been initiating myself, from all the rest created by other members.
Possibly by using a square instead of a circle as outline of the icons.

Thanks for reading.

[pennycsf]

I posted this on my site.

Just change the URL to yours.

Thanks for the list, but what does it mean if there is a black dot in the icon? It seems to indicate that you have posted a reply to the topic?