Administrative and Maintenance Tools - Change Threads/Posts Owner/Date for vB3.7

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

[ibar726]

Really great mod, although I am having one little problem with it. When changing the time on multiple posts at once, vb for whatever reason reverses the order of the posts. So the last post in the thread becomes the first, and the first becomes the last. So I was wondering if there was anyway that the time change could be done incrementally?

So that if I select 3 posts in a thread and tell it to change the post's time to 08 00 00, then that would be the time of the first post, the 2nd post would be changed to 08 00 01 or 08 01 00 (and the 3rd 08 00 02 or 08 02 00)? Do you think this might be possible?

Or if that isn't possible do you know how vb determined the post order, that an option could be put in to reverse the order of post processing (thereby putting things back in the correct order)?

[rinkrat]

this is sweet! Works perfectly.

[GaiLoan]

thanks "install" this very good mods

[sam_816]

niiicee!!! thank you... Now I've the complete power of my forum..
burhahahaha

[inciarco]

Originally Posted by Phalynx

vB 3.8 is not out yet. If you mean 3.6.8 - update your templates to 3.6.8
I said it *should* work, I used the word should because of the introduced template hooks. If you are using old templates you don't have the hooks.


Options are not displayed. How do I add them manually?
If you choose to not automatically add both options you have to add that options manually.

1. Disable automatic template edit in the Change threads/posts owner settings


2. Open the template FORUMDISPLAY.

Search for:

<option value="mergethread">$vbphrase[merge_threads]</option>

Add after it:

<option value="changethreadsowner">$vbphrase[changethreadsowner_link]</option>

3. Open the template SHOWTHREAD

Search for:

<option value="undeleteposts">$vbphrase[undelete_posts]</option>

Add after it:

<option value="changepostsowner">$vbphrase[changepostsowner_link]</option>

Great Advice for vB 3.6.8, works fine on that Version but requires this Template Edits for the Options to Appear.

My Best Regards.

[Seiyaboy]

I have a question regarding this mod. I know you already said the purpose is to change thread and post owners, but what about post count as well as attachments? Will those all be automatically be updated too? As in the owner of the attachments would change from one user to the other, and if the post count would also be altered. Thanks.

[elprince]

installed and tested and wokring just fine ... but iam afraid of having a hack editing in my database

[Phalynx]

Originally Posted by Seiyaboy

I have a question regarding this mod. I know you already said the purpose is to change thread and post owners, but what about post count as well as attachments? Will those all be automatically be updated too? As in the owner of the attachments would change from one user to the other, and if the post count would also be altered. Thanks.

Why not reading the part "Features" of the description?

[kalisekj]

I have hired help from Pakistan creating threads when they are done I need to change all the threads to my name. This will work perfectly. THANK YOU!

[Jaxel]

Found a bug with this mod... it doesnt hasn't 12-HOUR clocks. If a post was made at 6:30 PM... the edit box will automatically enter 6:30... the problem is that it should be entering 18:30... So if I edit anything, the time gets pushed back 12 hours.