Why two different URLS lead to same thread?

[Ben]

My action engine nugget here

http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=170&message.id=240328#M240328 

showed up at the botom of the LV page as one ot the most Kudoed and when I hit that link it takes me to here

http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?message.uid=503801#U503801 

THey both seem to be the same thread but different URLs. Why?

Just curious*,

Ben

* Don't expect me stop asking question now. It is way to late for that to help.

[Mathan]

Ben,

Also from your profile when i click on the popular posts, Community Nugget 4/08/2007 Action Engines this thread is at 1 4 and 5 th place as your popular posts.

When i open everyone separately in a new tab, it is giving different URL's in a continuous numbering but all are same threads. Why so?

http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=170&message.id=240328#M240328

http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=170&message.id=240329#M240329

http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=170&message.id=240330#M240330

[muks]

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When i open everyone separately in a new tab, it is giving different URL's in a continuous numbering but all are same threads. Why so?

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they ARE NOT the same message!!!I think you are not getting ben's point. Ben's url points to the same message

Message Edited by muks on 09-10-2009 06:59 PM

[Mathan]

Oops oh yeah sorry misunderstood........

You are right Ben. I tried with "Darren's Weekly Nugget 09/09/2009" link which got the most number of kudos today and the same behavior is observed.

[Ben]

Thanks for the confirmation.

Its not an issue just an observation taht prompted the Q.

Ben

[altenbach · Accepted solution]

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Ben wrote:

http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=170&message.id=240328#M240328 

http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?message.uid=503801#U503801 

THey both seem to be the same thread but different URLs. Why?

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I would think that the forum is just a huge database of posts with a front end that formats the pages dynamically.

Apparently, a post can be addressed either from a global ID (URL#2) or from a board/boardID (URL#1). Same difference. 😉

[Laura F.]

To add to Altenbach's response, the newer method uses the global ID - you'll notice that your email subscriptions now all use this URL format.  I don't know the specifics, but that URL format is used more often all over the forums now.

Thanks,

Laura