Hi folks,

I seem to remember that at the time that I updated my boards to 6.5.4 I set a 60-minute limit on the time that people could take to compose a post. This is not about editing posts, I've got a 6-hour limit on that and I know where I can change that. This is about the expiration of the form for making a post in the first place. I can't find where I can extend the time limit.

Our boards are somewhat philosophical, and our members also try hard to make their points without personally attacking other posters. I don't want to discourage that kind of thoughtfulness, and sometimes ... it just takes time.

I personally know that if I take a long time writing a post and then, upon hitting Submit to go to the Preview screen, if I instead encounter a page that says the form for posting has expired, I know that I can just use my Back button, as the page says, and get right back to what I had written, and copy it, and start all over again. But some of our members apparently don't know that, and they end up very discouraged that a post they spent more than an hour composing is lost to the ethers.

I want to go ahead and go back and give them whatever time it takes, 3 hours, 6 hours, whatever! But I've gone through every page in the control panel and can't find the place. It's not the cookie expiration. I've got that set for months out. Is it something related to sessions?

He'p me out, y'all.

Thanks!

Not sure here, but could this be determined by the "Cookie Expiration Time" designated in Control Panel » Primary Settings » General » Advanced Options?

What's yours set at? Mine's at like 30758400 secs (142 days)

...or is there a time out for the PHPSESSION? I don't know enough about it, just throwing these out there.

In any event, for posts THAT long, people might want to get into the habit of using Notepad or something.

If you're now running version 7 you won't have that issue. Version 6.5 did have a session timeout issue in that if you didn't submit your post before the session was expired it wouldn't allow you to submit it. We've reworked things for version 7, so that's no longer an issue.

Ah so. I'm still running 6.5.4. OK, I'll get on the stick and upgrade to 7. Thanks for the help.

Okay, see, I was thrown off cuz this is in the Ver 7 forum

dtto, i was confused so i didnt post lol

Oops, sorry about posting in the wrong forum! You know, Rick makes major revisions to the software about every three days. Not only can I not keep up, I can't even find my way around these help boards anymore.

OK, I'll quit boo-hooing now, and maybe somebody should move this thread.