Merge Social Groups :: Quick Hack / Query

[smnet]

Hi everyone,

If anyone is lucky enough like our site to have a very active 'social group' following then you are prolly inundated with similar groups.

I've been wanting to have a 'merge social groups' function for ages but realise this is a pure mod waiting to happen (or... not waiting perhaps)

Does anyone have any ideas for a quick hack or a query that can achieve a merge?

I'm not begging for a custom mod here, just seeing if anyone has even begun to think about this, or had to do it before..... what did you do?... share away!

[smnet]

I've posted this as a project on scriptlance.... hopefully it can be made.

[dougdirac]

Did anything ever come of this?

[tbworld]

Are you merging or are you moving. Who owns the group if you merge?
I could see moving members and their posts to another established group, but you would then have to drop the old owner.

Moving posts and users over to another group isn't really that hard. What I mean, is that this is a lot of work to make something like this foolproof, 'elections have to be made'. It is not something you would use on a regular basis. I wonder how many people even have the need for it.

If 10 principle people sign up, then I will write a rudimentary script to do this, but I won't write a mod, it will just be a script that you have to fill in the group information.

I do not want to support a mod.

[dougdirac]

I would like social groups to have more of the normal forum capabilities. As it is you can't move messages (posts) to a different discussion (thread) even within the same group (forum).

Really I'd like the ability to move content between the groups and the forums.

[khininger]

i would find such a mod very helpful too.

Users start multiple social groups on the same topic (either because they don't bother looking if there's an existing group already, or because they want to feel special), each group accumulates content, each group owner leaves the site in a few years, and we end up with a bunch of groups that nobody manages and that are hard to navigate, cluttery, same thing over and over, and everyone uses them interchangeably. I cant close them like I close threads, I can't merge them, my only option is to delete all content, which I don't want to do. Silly arrangement, imho. I could definitely use something that would allow me to merge groups, move discussions from group to group, or close groups without deleting them.

[grey_goose]

Just do it in the database... ?


ADMINCP > MAINTENANCE > EXECUTE SQL QUERY
UPDATE discussion SET groupid='YY' WHERE groupid='XX';

Where XX is the old group number and YY is the destination group number. The groupid is in the url, "forum/group.php?groupid=XX"

For the rest, AFAIK there are mods to move forum threads INTO social groups, but not vice versa.