How to merge posts with "RE:"

[John Diver]

Hey,

I dont know how this can be done, but I want to try merge posts that include RE: + title

For example, my blog post would be

"My post"

then all replies would be:

"RE: My post"

Can this be done?

[kh99]

I'm not sure I understand. Are you saying that if anyone posts a comment with the title "RE: My Post" that they will all be merged into one post?

[John Diver]

Hey,

Sorry to bring up an old thread but I just wanted to check if this can be done.

I have a number of threads that start with "X" and I wanted to merge all those threads into one - It is too many threads to click each manually through the admin / moderation so I was hoping there was another way I could do it, even if running a query.

Thanks!

[John Diver]

Bumping this and hoping someone can help please

[HM666]

You can select more than one thread in the admincp when merging them together.

[John Diver]

Hey Len, the problem is that I have on thread in a private forum, it is being taken from one feed and they all have the same title, but all posts are being posted as a separate thread when I want to combine them into the one thread if you know what I mean.

I.e. the title for the thread would be "x" and the body is the post, it should be put into the one thread but vB is putting each one into a separate thread instead of a followup post, I wanted to know if I can even add them manually through code.

Thanks Len

[HM666]

Is this a setting that you have or a hack installed? Its not normal for it to take posts from one thread and create a new thread with each post. So there is probably some sort of setting that is off or something else going on. The easiest way to merge them that I know of is to do it right on the forum, just tick all the boxes of the threads/posts you want merged into one thread and then click the drop down at the bottom right under the threads and choose Merge Threads/Posts. As far as any magical way to do it I'm not sure. That should work and be pretty easy unless you have a gazillion threads/posts like this. How did it come about that it ended up like this?

[John Diver]

Its just a setting on the forum privacy, normal vb, I don't have any hacks installed at all.

Would there be a conditional sql I could use so if the title includes "x" then merge all those threads by the date they were posted?

I dont know SQL so not sure if thats possible what how to do it.

Thanks again

[HM666]

I've had many forums set to private and never had any of them come up with nothing in then posts at all. So that is weird.

As for the SQL I really do not know I'm not well versed enough in it just yet to give code for that.

[John Diver]

I think it is a problem after the upgrade, because otherwise vB wouldn't allow a blank post to be made.. so somehow during the upgrade the content must have been lost.
It's the only thing I can think of..