I was so surprised to see this mod/hack/add-in!

Thank you Andreas!

Anyone know if this will work in vB 3.5.2 as is?

This was invaluable for me for 3.0.X and I was thrilled to find it for 3.5!

Installed and worked like a charm.

As to what you could use it for, I run vBull in a corporate environment and we have a top level froum for each employee with 8 sub forums for each. The sub forum catagories are identical for each employee.

Before this, I had to create the damn things manually for each employee. It would take me well over an hour to do (with the descriptions and permissions etc...). Now it takes me closer to 10 minutes per employee.

Thanks again for making this invaluable hack (to me anyways) :D

I have been using this for quite awhile with great success.

This last time I used it, I noticed that it does not properly handle the 'title_clean' field of the forum table. It simply clones the cleaned title from the original forum rather than cleaning the newtitle entered in the text field. The problem is that in several locations all of the new forums cloned were displayed as "Generic Forum" (the title I use for the forum I clone new forums from)

I "fixed" this by opening up the edit window for each forum and simply hitting the save button (without making any changes) which caused the title_clean value to change into what it was supposed to be. Having used it to clone close to 300 forums this last time around, it was still a HUGE timesaver.

Right, as this was ported from 3.0 (which did not have title_clean and description_clean), it simply does not take care of that.
Gonna have to update this ...

Don't forget.... :nervous:

Just wanted to clarify that I wasn't "complaining" by any means. the fact that this hack is still working so well after so long without any further attention is a testament to how well written your hacks are.

Just wanted to bump it up and let you know that is was starting to show its age ;-)

Thanks again for all the hacks that you release around here for us, vBulletin wouldn't be the same without people like you.

title_clean should be correct now.

Does anyone know if this hack requires many changes to work in 3.5.4?

Not one at all.

Thanks Andreas