[FIXED] Notifications points to bad entries list

[philippe99]

Scott, in my account, I have a "(1) Notifications" clickable link which drives to a page full a "01/01/1970" entry dates

At this time, I'm quite sure for not being involved in macosx.com, neither being able to use my first computer -a 1978 Commodore 64-

Philippe

[Cheryl]

My notification dates list 1969 and after I answer to user responded tickets, the notification always stays at 1.

[philippe99]

And I've just discover this afternoon that notifications means... answer from the customer

I was sitting for two days before the Beta2 'My tickets' waiting for a colour change of some questions' title, indicating a possible response..as in the old system... and not paying any attention to the "(x) Notifications" climbing number ...;-)

Philippe

[ScottW]

Notifications are combined, responses from users (or techs) and private messages. The My Account main page (dashboard) breaks out what the notifications mean, 2 User Responses, 5 private messages.

The update is not dynamic, in the sense that it could take a minute or so for the notifications to update... this was done in the interest of saving resources which makes pages load faster. Granted, that one thing isn't going to make a huge difference, but it is things like this in the new code which help overhead on the server.

For example, the Open/Active question list is like this as well. Updated every minute. This way, instead of building a new open question list for every tech viewing every page reload... I build one "view" and save this into site variables which makes everything run much faster.

I will take a look at the date issues, I have seen some odd things. I think much of it is because of the difference between old code (primary site) and new code... not jiving together.

[ScottW]

I believe this is all fixed now.

[Cheryl]

Yep. Those dates are gone. It still registers 1 notification.
1-0 of 0

[ScottW]

I don't understand the whole notification thing. Notifications are on the My Account main page... the 1-0 of 0 thing is which page? My Questions or My Tickets or other?

[Cheryl]

Picture 1 shows that I have clicked on the Notifications in the menu bar after I got into My Account.

Picture 2 is after i have clicked on 1 unread tech response.