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

[TAIFUN_T]

Good product, but it has a very important bug.
Create a thread, attach a few images, then change the owner of the thread.
Refresh the page. Thumbnails will disappear from the message.
Tested, provided that the attachmentes are stored in a file system

[Phalynx]

Yes, this is a known issue, known as "Moving file based attachments to the new user"

I don't think this will be done, as my time is very limited.

[mrpaint]

Hi everyone,

For those who wanted to use this mod with filesystem based attachments, import this .xml file. This .xml file has a small change made by me to fix that issue. Hope it helps someone and doesn't violate anything.

[onealien]

how can you see if you have a filesystem based attachments?

thanks...

[mrpaint]

Originally Posted by onealien

how can you see if you have a filesystem based attachments?

thanks...

If you don't know whether you need my script or not, you probably won't need it No worry.

[Phalynx]

Originally Posted by mrpaint

Hi everyone,

For those who wanted to use this mod with filesystem based attachments, import this .xml file. This .xml file has a small change made by me to fix that issue. Hope it helps someone and doesn't violate anything.

Thanks for sharing.

[TAIFUN_T]

Originally Posted by mrpaint

Hi everyone,

For those who wanted to use this mod with filesystem based attachments, import this .xml file. This .xml file has a small change made by me to fix that issue. Hope it helps someone and doesn't violate anything.

Thank you!

[angeljs]

Hi, I'm using this on a heavily modified theme and I can't get it to show up anywhere. Can anyone tell me what I need to add to what template (hook, for example) for it to show?

Thanks in advance.

[gr8whtd0pe]

Everytime I try to use this I get:
"The message you have entered is too short. Please lengthen your message to at least 2 characters."

Any ideas why?

[Been Told]

Are there any plans to update this mod for vB4?