Administrative and Maintenance Tools - Change Threads/Posts Owner/Date for vB3.8

Change Posts Owner

Created by Marius Czyz aka Phalynx.

Tested on vBulletin 3.6, 3.7 and 3.8

What does this modification do?
It can change the owner and date of multiple threads and post. For this, it adds another option to your mod actions on forumdisplay, showthread and search results. After selecting some threads or posts, you can choose the new owner by name or by UserID. "By name" works with the AJAX namesuggestion, we all know it from writing a PM. After changing the name, it rebuilds thread/forum counters and post counter of old and new user. Attachments will also be assigned to new user.

Installtime: <1 minutes
Difficulty: very easy (1 product)

Demo is not available, due to missing permissions on my board.

Please click Mark as INSTALLED, otherwise I will not support you.

Features
- Can change owner and date of selected posts and threads (including database attachments - it will not move file attachments)
- Can change owner to unregistered user and back
- Can accept user id and username
- Username input is driven by AJAX
- Post count of involved users will be increased/decreased
- Thread and forum counters of involved threads and forums will be rebuild
- Supports inline moderation
- Makes use of $template_hooks, hooks and simple group permissions
- Every change will leave a notice in moderation log

Features for future releases
- Incrementally change time, f.e. first posts is 12:01:01, second one will get 12:01:02h, third one 12:01:03h....
- Moving file based attachments to the new user

How to install?- Simply import product

How to upgrade?- Uninstall existing product, install new one

Changelog
v1.8, released 7. January 2009
- Apostroph in Username will be filtered out
- Fixed 12h/24h recognition

v1.7, released 4. June 2008
- Attachments will now be also assigned to the new user
- Added ability to change date of posting
- Added ability to assign post to guest user
- Added ability to set IP Address (-> AdmincP, Settings)
- Added moderation to search result (posts)

v1.6, released 19. June 2008
- Post counter of old and new user will be updated
- Added moderation to search result (threads)
- Clean up code
- Compatible with vBulletin 3.7 GOLD
- Minor fixes

[aymelek]

How can I determine what user group can use this? I created custom user groups that I want to use this but it looks like only the default user groups can use it!

[Phalynx]

Originally Posted by aymelek

How can I determine what user group can use this? I created custom user groups that I want to use this but it looks like only the default user groups can use it!

Extend the setting "Use group permission" to the usergroups that can use this.

[aymelek]

Thank you so much for all of your help! Gave this five stars. Excellent and essential mod!

[smirkley]

I know you are on vacation (I am jealous), so no pressure for this fix.

Just hoping you can touch on it when you get back. It is a pain in the butt re-enabling everytime I want to use this, nothing big, just dont want unavailable options seen to those who dont have permissions lol.

(Unless I missed that it was updated already)

Thanks again.

Originally Posted by smirkley

I may be missing something, but how can I block the option from showing up in the moderator options pull down if that usergroup doesnt have permissions to use it?

Right now it shows up, but of course permission is denied when a non permissed staff usergroup tries to use it. I just want to hide it if they dont have permission.

[itviet]

Originally Posted by microguy

When I change the post owner, the attachments no longer work. The thumbnails show inline of the full-sized images, but they will not load upon clicking. If I change the post owner back to the original owner, the links work again for full-sized images (attachments).

I have a same error , Can you fix it ?

[longgsm]

How Change ThreadID? Help me!

[Phalynx]

Originally Posted by smirkley

I know you are on vacation (I am jealous), so no pressure for this fix.

Just hoping you can touch on it when you get back. It is a pain in the butt re-enabling everytime I want to use this, nothing big, just dont want unavailable options seen to those who dont have permissions lol.

(Unless I missed that it was updated already)

Thanks again.

I'm back. No need to be jealous
Will take a look this week.

Originally Posted by itviet

I have a same error , Can you fix it ?

Already on my todo list.

Originally Posted by longgsm

How Change ThreadID? Help me!

Please explain more.

[RenatoMN]

Hello, Phalynx.

I just upgraded a vB from 3.7.2 to 3.8.4 using ImpEx, instead actually doing an update. I was not careful enough to create the admin account in the new vB with a diff. e-mail from the admin in the old vB, so this user was NOT migrated. The posts and threads are there, with "RenatoMN" as a unregistered user.

May you explain how can I find all posts/threads from this unregistered user and change the owner to my new user without need to browse all the forums? The posts aren't returned when I search posts by author username.

Regards,
Renato

[Phalynx]

In this case I would suggest to click first "Mark as Installed"

[RenatoMN]

Actually, it was not installed before... installed now, so marked as.

Regards.