How to search for a message or thread with a known message ID in forum?

[bohm]

How to search (or "swich") to a thread with a known ID ? The "Search Message" yields no results when searching for a message ID. Is there a other proper way for referencing a thread or message?

[tst]

Why not provide the URL to the post?

[bohm]

Refering the URL works, but they are long and bulky.

[tst]

If you want to keep the threads for yourself, you can use your favorites menu or the site's bookmarks option.

If you have to transfer the number to some one else, the URL format looks fairly simple -

http://  forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=board number\name&message.id=your number.

if you enter the same board, you will have the board number. This doesn't look like a particularly convenient way, but I don't have a problem with copying and pasting URLs.

The other option would be to do a search, but that is not guranteed to give you an exact answer.