Where is the Solved button?

[gwideman]

I would like to mark a post of mine as solved. How do I do that?

[Paul_Tikkanen · Accepted solution]

Hi:

If there are no replies to your post, you have to reply to your post and then mark it as solved.

[gwideman]

OK, spelling this out for the benefit of others who may have the same puzzle.

1. Suppose you post a topic-starting message that contains an actual solution already. There's no facility to mark that as a solution.

2. You can reply to that post with a dummy message.  (While creating that reply, there's no facility to mark it as a solution.) Post that message.

3. In the list of messages for that topic, find the just-posted message.  Since it's a reply, it has both  Reply and "Accept as Solution" buttons. Hit the "Accept..." button.

Bottom line: The "Solved" feature is oriented to the use-case of people asking a question, then someone else providing the solution message, then the original poster accepting that message as a solution.  As a side-effect of having an accepted message, the topic/thread gains a "Solved" status.