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

[edytwinky]

Thanks. Works perfectly on 3.8.3

[Phalynx]

Originally Posted by BRotondi

Another interesting setting would be a "Time Offset": My server is the USA, my seat in Switzerland. This means: I always have to subtract 9 hours when changing the posting time (e.g. to add an "intro post" to an existing thread).

But anyway: Thanks again for this nice hack!
Bruno

Already on todo list

[BRotondi]

Nice to hear!

Lets calculate: 10:47 here = 1:47 AM there... So I wish you a nice sleep and am taking a coffee myself .

Greetings, Bruno

[Phalynx]

That must be a mistake. I'm living in Erlangen / Germany, so I have the same time zone like you :>
You can wish me a good meal.

[BRotondi]

"As you wish."

Good Meal!
Bruno

[Classico]

Hi!!!

Does this work in VB4.0?

[Bluetiereign]

Awesome. Just what I needed. Installed.

[Veer]

Originally Posted by Classico

Hi!!!

Does this work in VB4.0?

I think not

[Athena1984]

Originally Posted by Roi Danton

Thx for this mod! :up:

Feature request:
Change only date and not owner of a post/thread. I.e. separate Owner and Date change permissions and add in the ACP a new permission field with the name "Which usergroup should be able to change the date?".

I just tried this and I'm really impressed! Thank you so much for this. I must say that I agree with Roi Danton though. I would love to have it where you could just change the date. Even if you don't fulfill this request the mod is still great. When I tried it out, I put my name in the new user box although I was the original poster, and it still changed the date. I have no problem having to do it this way. Thanks again!

[kevius]

will it be compatible with v4.0 of vbulletin ? it is a very important hack for me !!