We will be posting tips and tricks in this thread. Please limit replies to only tips and tricks for using the forum. We can discuss them elsewhere as needed.
Markdown is a notation that allows you to format your text without html tags. Itās meant to be fast to use and readable even if formatting is not enabled. Itās fairly ubiquitous on the internet these days but you may not know all the features.
This Markdown Reference is also accessible when you write a post.
One thing missing from the reference is that you can have smaller than just the 2 headers. For example:
# Header 1
## Header 2
### Header 3
#### Header 4
##### Header 5
As mentioned in another thread, you can create tables with Markdown.
This ā¦
| Default | Centered | Right Aligned |
|---|:---:|---:|
| one | two | 3 |
| four | five | 6 |
Makes this:
| Default | Centered | Right Aligned |
|---|---|---|
| one | two | 3 |
| four | five | 6 |
Or you can use a Markdown Table Generator.
The upper right hand corner has your profile icon. Click on that and itāll take you to settings where you can customize how things look and act.
Title and GIF added by @djensen.
Tired of all the game threads in your āUnreadā-View?
This is how to ignore them (click the image to watch the animation):
This setting ignores all threads in the Play Boardgames section including those of the subcategories for the āUnreadā-View. In case you want to see for example only the āTeam Gamesā there, just move to this sub-category and reset to āWatchingā.
You can go to any category and/or subcategory you want to exclude from or enable to your āUnreadā-View and repeat the procedure accordingly.
So set āIgnoringā on a Category level:
or set āIgnoringā on a Topics level:
In this context, these checkboxes to be found in the āSettingsā are relevant, too:
This allows for effectively filtering what is part of the Unread-List.
Missing badges? See how you can choose which of your badges are shown:
Klick on your profile image:
Now klick on āEdit Profileā.
In the following screen find the box āGroup Titleā
Choose the badges that you want, Ctrl-Klick (Cmd-Klick) for multiple choices.
Donāt forget to
Note: When choosing too many badges you may run into a display-bug (caused by the forum software). The posting suddenly may look like this:
In this case please remove (deselect using the above mentioned procedure) some of your badges, until the text appears as normal. Thank you!
You want to manually upload a file, for example a savegame?
This is how you do it (click the image to view the animation):
Donāt forget to klick the āSubmitā-Button once your file has been uploaded.
There may be reasons (for example https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/topic/32495/new-triplea-with-new-forums-user-does-not-exist-error) why you need to change your username.
For this it is important to know the concept of names on the forum.
When you are on a userās profile you see for example something like this:
Now the first name shown is what the forum calls āFull Nameā,
the second name shown behind the @ -symbol is the āUsernameā.
Both names might be identical, they might be different, too.
It is important to know that the āFull Nameā is more or less cosmetics, when different from the āUsernameā.
The āFull Nameā is not your log-in name, it is not your name for TripleA-games, you can not be @ -mentioned by your āFull Nameā (when different).
You can change your āFull Nameā to whatever (even your real name) without any consequences for your log-in or TripleA.
It can be changed, when you go to āEdit Profileā:
So in order to change your login-name, your TripleA-games name and the name you can be @- mentioned with, you need to change your āUsernameā:
Klick āChange Usernameā and edit it: 
Important: Avoid to use periods, spaces or other special characters in your username as this might cause problems.
See a full list of all topics containing forum-related Tips and Tricks:
https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/tags/tips&tricks
How Can I edit my message, when it was already submitted to the thread? I have to change some information in the 1942 2nd edition forum concerning the download of my maps. Wright now I can see only two buttons: āreplyā and āquoteā.
Klick the āThree Pointsā next to āReply, Quote and Heart symbolā to open another menu, select āEditā there:
Thank you, Panther! It works fine!
Several times before, I tried the triple dot, and may be due to problems with connecting to the thread, the server cut me off, so I had no access to the edit menue.
@dedo What browser and operating system are you using?
Dave Jensen, Founder of Axis & Allies .org
@djensen
WIN 7 and Firefox
Your online status is still āinvisibleā - but you want it to be set to āonlineā?
Here is how to do it:
Click on your profile image on the top right of the screen and select āOnlineā.
@Panther Itās still on my todo list to reset everybody to āonlineā.
how do you get the pop up āreturn to last postā or similar to show up ? i get it on the triplea site on the bottom right, although it doesnāt always take me to the very last post all the time, it gets close.
I couldnāt find anything in settings
Thanks place is Rocking !
@barnee
I donāt think that it is a setting but something automated, that I sometimes notice, sometimes not.
Klick on the userās name you want to chat with to access his profile.
At the right side of the userās image there is that blue circle with the three dots inside.
Klick on that blue circle.
At the top of the then opening menu klick āStart new chat with ā¦ā
Type in the chatbox.
Access past and current chats by klicking the speech bubble-symbol next to your own profile image.
@Panther Though ā¦ you might not want to start a chat with @djensen47. I rarely login to that account, I use it for TripleA games (I donāt like using my admin account for TripleA).
