Moved topics still active in original forum

[James T Brock]

I'd like to be able to move topics into another forum and when those topics are replied to in the new forum it's still reflected in the original forum with the topics properly bumping to the top of the forum along with the last poster, replies, and views columns functioning properly.

Anyone out there that can write this for vB 3.8?

[James T Brock]

I requested this as a paid mod previously and didn't get any responses there either. Which is odd considering this seems to be a rather trivial mod. Any coders out there who can direct me to the right files I'd need to edit in-order to do this?

I already know how to do this with the 'copy thread' feature and having replies bumped to the top of both forums, I'd just like to do it with the move thread feature instead and not have the duplicated posts reflected in a users profile.

[Andreas]

Originally Posted by James T Brock

Which is odd considering this seems to be a rather trivial mod.

It definitly ain't easy, in fact I'd call this a pretty difficult modification if you want to do it properly.

[Lynne]

Have you looked into hooking into the query and adding a condition that if you are looking at forumid xx, then add in threadid yy (or postid zz, you'll have to look). Look at the hook "showthread_query_postids"

[James T Brock]

Yeah after poking around a bit this does seem a bit more complicated than I originally thought. I know of a phpBB forum that does it though. Unless I can find someone to do this for me I'll probably just stick with what I already have.

[BirdOPrey5]

I'd also be interested in this if it ever comes to fruition... I have a number of on-topic subforums but off-topic is the only major traffic generator... as is I wait until threads fall off the first couple pages before 'filing' them into an on-topic forum if such exists, and users are always complaining they can't find their threads and such- would love to file them and keep them visible in OT as well.

[BirdOPrey5]

I ended up making this myself, wasn't too difficult once I knew where to look. Several manual edits though.
Master Forums / All Topic - Show threads from multiple forums in a single forum.