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Move Posts

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A Flarum extension. Move posts from one discussion to another.

WARNING: This extension can in certain scenarios result in breaking old URLs to posts of the discussion you're moving posts to.

Usage

Simple Move VS Complex Move

The extension allows you to select multiple posts to move from one discussion to another. Certain scenarios are not allowed, while others are allowed but yield to different results.

Moving posts can either be a simple process of pushing the posts at the end of the target discussion, or it can be a complicated process of pushing the posts in between the target discussion's posts, thus breaking the target discussion posts's old URLs (meaning old URLs will no longer point to the correct posts, because we update their number field to allow squeezing in the moved posts).
Which method will be chosen depends on the creation date of the posts being moved, and the creation date of the target discussion's last post.

The extension makes knowing which method will be used easily, by providing a Check Operation Type button in the relevant modal, so that you know what you're dealing with before proceeding.

The following diagram summarizes the couple scenarios:
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Moving The First Post

When moving the first post of a discussion:

  • If the discussion only has that one post, that post will be replace by a normal post with the content The discussion has been moved to Target Discussion (the content is customizable through the admin panel).
  • If the discussion has multiple posts, the first post will be replaced by an event posts (as per usual) and the second post will be set as first.

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Event Posts

Moved posts are replaced by event posts.

Installation

Install with composer:

composer require sycho/flarum-move-posts:"*"

Updating

composer update sycho/flarum-move-posts:"*"
php flarum migrate
php flarum cache:clear

Support

This extension is under minimal maintenance.

It was developed for a client and released as open-source for the benefit of the community.
I might publish simple bugfixes or compatibility updates for free.

Links

    i selected 2 posts move to new discussion, but it created 5 discussions

    Only 1 discussion has 2 selected posts moved

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      SychO

      thanks a lot for all your efforts and adding the search feature 🥳

      the update is installing flarum-/uikit that is for the search feature right?

      which tool did you use to create those sketches? they are eye-pleasing 😅

      robinodds

            When trying to move a post:

            Next Illuminate\Database\QueryException: SQLSTATE[23000]: Integrity constraint violation: 1062 Duplicate entry '374588-33' for key 'posts_discussion_id_number_unique' (SQL: update `posts` set `discussion_id` = 374588, `number` = 33 where `id` = 5798876) in ****/vendor/illuminate/database/Connection.php:692
            Next Doctrine\DBAL\Driver\PDO\Exception: SQLSTATE[22003]: Numeric value out of range: 1690 BIGINT UNSIGNED value is out of range in '`******`.`posts`.`number` + -11' in ******/vendor/doctrine/dbal/lib/Doctrine/DBAL/Driver/PDO/Exception.php:18

              rafaucau can you provide a link to the posts you're trying to move and into what discussion ?

                  SychO Looks nice! The GitHub link on this first post never works: page not found.

                    SychO I made this extension available for testing to my forum moderators on the stagging version of my forum, so I can't really give a link since it shouldn't be publicly available.
                    It didn't reproduce for me, but it looks like the moderator was trying to move posts to a closed discussion and that's why he got those errors

                        Does the extension work if you move posts to a discussion where posts have been deleted permanently inside this discussion?

                        Example:

                        Disc1
- Post1
- Post2
- Post3 <- deleted permanently
- Post4
- Post5

--> Disc1
- Post1
- Post2
- Post4
- Post5

Disc2 (Posts 47 and 49 have already been deleted permanently)
- Post43
- Post44
- Post45
- Post46
- Post48
- Post50

Moving Post45 from Disc2 to Disc1 at the end:
Disc1
- Post1
- Post2
- Post4
- Post5
- Post45

                          rafaucau the moderator was trying to move posts to a closed discussion

                          what's a closed discussion ? a discussion inside a private tag or a private discussion from byobu ?

                          m4v3rick Does the extension work if you move posts to a discussion where posts have been deleted permanently inside this discussion?

                          It doesn't matter if there are permanently deleted posts in either the source or the target discussion. All you have to remember is that old links to any of the target discussion posts can end up pointing to different posts after making the move, if the extension reports that it's a complex move.

                          m4v3rick Moving Post45 from Disc2 to Disc1 at the end:

                          You can't dictate that it will be moved to the end, that's up for the extension to decide.

                                  9 days later

                                  Does it just work on a computer?
                                  I can't find the "Move" button after "select to move" on my mobile. Thanks for any help!

                                  • Hari replied to this.

                                    m4v3rick yes, it does work in mobile too but when you enable share button you may need to optimize CSS for mobile view.

                                        Hari

                                        That wasn't the problem. The button "move" was always there but at the beginning of the discussion. In my first try it was a discussion with 1.5k posts that's why I couldn't find the button. I tried it now locally in a discussion with 4 posts and saw the button.
                                        Just need to jump to the first post after "select to move" to finally "move" the post.

                                        • Hari replied to this.

                                            m4v3rick I would like to add one other important note, better do not move first post, as you are saying it almost has 1500 posts it will get complicated if you move first post.

                                            Yeah, that happens to me too, sometimes even the approve, dismiss flag buttons do not show up if we scroll in large discussion

                                              a month later

                                              SychO After move, I can't click on Discussion name href link

                                                  SychO More info:

                                                  When logged in, I cannot click neither on user moved post to discussion_name links.