I’d like to change the order in which topics are presented on the screen. Is that possible?

:wave: Topics rearrange themselves according to their activity etc. an inactive topic will fall to the bottom and active topics will surface and stay afloat if you get my drift :wink: Although I will add that by enabling the fixed category positions site setting as an admin will allow you to change the order of categories in the /categories page.

Thanks! I fixed the category positions. That doesn’t allow me to order the topics, though. Is that just something that can’t be done?

Unfortunately you cannot re order categories as far as I am aware. Sorry.

[image] Claire1: That doesn’t allow me to order the topics, though. Is that just something that can’t be done? Correct. If you want a topic to float to the top it needs a response. Topics are ordered by the latest response.

[image] Claire1: I’d like to change the order in which topics are presented on the screen. Is that possible? What order would you like? What problem are you trying to solve?

I’d like to use the discussion board for a focus group. I’d like to guide focus group participants through a few topics first, so they have all the information they need to respond to other topics. I can achieve this by calling a topic “read this first” and telling people where to go next, but it would be nice if it was a bit more intuitive and they could just start with the first topic, then the second, etc.

In a category it’s possible to order the topics (category > Settings) In your case, order by Created > Ascending should be the way to go [image] But in the homepage, I don’t see any option other than pin topic globally or make a banner topic with the order of topics to read [image]

[image] Steven: category > Settings) In your case, order by Created > Ascending I’m having trouble finding where you get to category > Settings order by Created > Ascending

When you enter a category, you can access the category settings in the tool button [image] You will have something like this : [image] And you’ll see a Appearance section [image] And you need to edit the third one

Is it possible to change the order of topics?

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) October 19, 2021, 7:30am 11

You can pin those topics so that they stay at the top.

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Is it possible to change the order of topics?

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