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Hi, Jim. Can you remind me what are the parameters you add to a "/online" page URL to make it site-specific, and which site number is mbarchers, please...?

Ta.

thissite=1 is all you need - the site name is in the URL so you don't need a parameter to specify that.

No, because mbarchers doesn't have its skin then display the data (even though it's there). I already checked that (and several other things).

What SEF said.

It can't be done then. There's no way to get the online view of one site to display the users from another. Unfortunately, because of the way the messageboard skin was developed it doesn't implement all the base DNA functionality by default, and Who's Online wasn't deemed to be required for messageboards. Which is annoying. I can add it to our backlog of work, but I'm not sure it will get a very high priority.

Bummer. I thought the "thissite=x" was a switch to let you compare the different sites. I only asked because there's someone on the Arcxhers board looking for a means to count how many people are online there at a given time.

> "Who's Online wasn't deemed to be required for messageboards."

Quite possibly deliberately, since MB users also weren't allowed PS pages (unless they came over to one of the other sites to get one) nor journals etc. That has changed somewhat with the duplication of PS pages to be a separate one on each sub-site (although the MB view of them is still suppressed).

> "I thought the "thissite=x" was a switch"

No, it's a boolean.