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= HOWTO Mark you thread as [SOLVED] =
Some helpful person on the Ubuntu forums has just solved that issue that has been causing you to tear your hair out. You want to proclaim to the world that everything is now peachy, but you're not sure how and you don't want to embarass yourself on the forums by declairing your undying love for the aforementioned resolver. Well there is a simple way. Find your thread, and at the top, click on the "Thread Tools" button.		 ## page was renamed from SolvedThreads
= How to mark your thread as SOLVED =
Some helpful person on the Ubuntu forums has just solved that issue that has been causing you to tear your hair out. You want to proclaim to the world that everything is now peachy, but you're not sure how and you don't want to embarrass yourself on the forums by declaring your undying love for the aforementioned resolver. Well there is a simple way. Go to the first post in your thread and click on "Edit Post". {{attachment:editpost.png}}
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attachment:Thread-Tools.png Now click on the orange "Go Advanced" button.
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A small menu will pop up, and at the bottom there is a "Mark this thread as solved" option. In the advanced editor change the prefix to "SOLVED".
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Now click on the orange "Save Changes" button.
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And the result:
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Click on this, and a nice [SOLVED] text will appear in the title of your thread. Marking a Thread as Solved has multiple useful outcomes;
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Now this has a twofold use; 1. It lets the person who answered your thread know that everything is working;
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1. It lets the person who answered your thread that everything is working 2. It lets other people searching the forums know that this thread provides a working solution (at least to the original poster) for their problem;
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2. It lets other people searching the forums know that this thread provides a working solution (at least to the original poster) for their problem 3. It saves people who try to help others in the Ubuntu Forums from wasting their time looking at threads that are already solved. This means that they can spend more time working on unsolved threads which helps everyone in the forums.

How to mark your thread as SOLVED

Some helpful person on the Ubuntu forums has just solved that issue that has been causing you to tear your hair out. You want to proclaim to the world that everything is now peachy, but you're not sure how and you don't want to embarrass yourself on the forums by declaring your undying love for the aforementioned resolver. Well there is a simple way. Go to the first post in your thread and click on "Edit Post". editpost.png

Now click on the orange "Go Advanced" button. advanced.png

In the advanced editor change the prefix to "SOLVED". prefix.png

Now click on the orange "Save Changes" button. save.png

And the result: result.png

Marking a Thread as Solved has multiple useful outcomes;

1. It lets the person who answered your thread know that everything is working;

2. It lets other people searching the forums know that this thread provides a working solution (at least to the original poster) for their problem;

3. It saves people who try to help others in the Ubuntu Forums from wasting their time looking at threads that are already solved. This means that they can spend more time working on unsolved threads which helps everyone in the forums.

UnansweredPostsTeam/SolvedThreads (last edited 2015-06-01 05:07:35 by 124-66-20-103)