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

[Artes_Marciales]

nice mod!!
Thanks!! : )

[lstintxs100]

if there are attachment in the post saved to the file system it gives an error that the attachment can not be found.

is there a workaround for this?

[Phalynx]

Cannot confirm this. When do you get the message?

[lstintxs100]

I got the message after uploading a number of pdf documents to the forum. I store them in the file system due to the size of the files. they can be a few k in size to over a 100 meg.

I uploaded a number of files and then changed the name of the user associated with the files. When I went to look at the files to download them for testing I get the error. I Then moved the owner of the thread back to the original person who posted the message and was able to download the files fine.

[jack-d]

I have previews and attachments as zip files. The only thing this has done is change the users name. When viewing the thread after a change the preview is now a red X and the attachment gives an error page.

So unless this can move the attachments from one users folder to the new one this will not work.

And as above, change it back to the original user and everything is fine.

[Yellow-06-GT]

Nice mod. Using it to redate announcment posts that I had in CMPS modules so they show up in proper order.

Thanks,

Bob

[Daisyboo]

Great mod thank you!
I use it so that certain threads and posts can be changed to my Admin username

[kud0gfx]

is there some way to do it via postbit legacy, not with the dropdown menu?

thx!

[YLP1]

I just want to say THANK YOU! For this mod...it was a lifesaver after I merged two large forums together ----Thank you so much!

[yamahapaul]

Installed, excellent mod thanks :up: