Multiple Promotion to Articles

[empire10]

An easy to use addon for promoting multiple threads to articles without losing time, using inlinemod. It promotes to an article the first post from each selected thread to the selected section of the CMS.

It's in Beta, so please give feedback.

Features

Promotes multiple threads to articles at once
Section selection for the publication of the Articles
Uses forum and CMS permissions
It publishes it immediately with the same date as the original post.
It doesn't allow you to promote already promoted threads and soft deleted ones.

Instructions:

Having the required permissions, on the forum display, select the threads which you want to promote by clicking on the checkbox on the right and open the inlinemod menu and select "Promote to Articles". You will be presented with a screen to select to which section you want to publish the articles in. Select the desired section and click "Promote threads".

[Alfa1]

This will be very useful. Screenshots?

[Carnage]

looks good, tagged for future use. I will (when i get around to it) ensure that this is compatible with my use original thread for comments mod.

[LoveStream]

Thank you Empire10, this what I needed.

Now I tried this but it must be " . TABLE_PREFIX . " before cms_nodeinfo for user table prefix. :)

Well would you add an option enable to select a Category as well as Section page. If that is possible it would be muti selection enable too.

Regards.

PS: Is that possible to limit preview text length while promote?

[halkum]

Very cool man, good work.

[Sador]

Sounds useful. :)

[CallieJo]

Tried this, but get this error when trying to promote many articles at once. Uninstalled for now.

Database error in vBulletin 4.0.0:

Invalid SQL:

SELECT t.threadid, t.open, t.visible, t.forumid, t.title, t.prefixid, t.postuserid, cn.nodeid
FROM vb3_thread t
left join cms_nodeinfo cn on cn.associatedthreadid = t.threadid
WHERE t.threadid IN (23834,22676,18271,18270,12423,9867,9866,9865,9864 ,9863,9835,9834,9833,9832,9831,9830,9829,9828,9827 ,9826,9825,9824,9823,9820,9819,9818,9817,9816,9815 ,9814,9813,9812,9811,9810,9806,567);

MySQL Error : Table 'mydatabasename.cms_nodeinfo' doesn't exist
Error Number : 1146

This would be a fantastic answer to my problems if someone can help fix it. Tagged for future.

[Dr.osamA]

Tagged for future.

Screenshots plzzz

thanx
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[empire10]

Update 0.9.1:

The database problem is fixed now.

[CallieJo]

Update 0.9.1:

The database problem is fixed now.

Wow! You are really awesome! Thanks bunches! This is just what I really needed.

BIG HUGS*

...nominated...

[VonDoom]

Wow Thanks Made an easy job out of something i was not looking forward to. Installed and rated 5 stars

[KURTZ]

just tagged for future use :)

[Britmovie]

Sorry using vb 4.0.1 and can not see any options etc anywhere. Where should they be? Cant see permissions to change?

[djbaxter]

When I used this, it set the author to "Unregistered" for all promoted articles.

[pcoskat]

OMG! How fabulous is this mod?!?! MANY THANKS!

[cihangir]

Can this mod move the article including all messages, whicht the article has?

[djbaxter]

No. It's unsupported and a beta at that - it's pretty bare bones.

[Sadikb]

This worked like a charm along with the Use Orginal thread for comments Mod. The actual VBulletin promote to article has a bug that it doesn't copy the actual post date as article publishing date, which this Mod solved.

Thank you very much, it allowed me to easily migrate.

[BadgerDog]

Installed.. then un-installed ...

Didn't work properly in v4.03 ...

Thanks any way .. :)

Regards,
Badger

[BadgerDog]

Figured out the problem ... :)

Re-installed and working now .. thanks ...

Regards,
Badger

[Louva-Deus]

@BadgerDog and what was the solution?

This sounds just like what I need. Good thinking. :)

[washingtonboise]

I understand what a thread or post is, but what is an 'article' in vbulletin and what are the benefits?

[thincom2000]

Thanks for this. Used it on both my sites and it was a HUGE time saver.

[raisun]

I'm probably a little late to this party, but I wanted to try this on VB 4.1.2 and it seems to work well with one issue: bbcode are converted as text, so when the articles are promoted you see:

Have you entered a <a target="_blank" href="http://www.mysite.com/Sweepstakes">My sweepstakes</a> before?

Instead of the actual link. If we go in and resave the article (making no changes), it will then process the link properly. Any thoughts on this?

[DJ XtAzY]

I have multiple categories in each sections. Is it possible to have an option to promote to a specific category, just like how you can promote to a section?

[CouponWCents]

Thank you!!!!!!!!!!

[Dutch_Boy]

Hi is this still a ongoing project or is it dead in the water?

Would love for it to work with Vb 4.1.2, thanks!