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

[Hornstar]

very nice work! I have needed to change the thread owner a few times now and have always wanted this.

[Phalynx]

Originally Posted by FleaBag

Hey, nice hack! Will this update attachment owners, if the post contains attachments?

Next version will do that.

Originally Posted by KURTZ

Italian translation

PS. i saw that there is an update ... what's the change log?

Thanks for translation.

Nothing changed, I just uploaded german and turkish translation. The next one will contain italian

[KURTZ]

ah ok, anyway good job marius

[princeedward]

nice mod....great idea...it can be very useful...
thanks a lot bro...
btw...work like a charm to vB 3.6.8 PL2 and also...is it all staff can do this or admin only...or can we just give them permissions?

best regards...

[Phalynx]

See settings, there you can set the usergroup permission.

[TCB]

really fantastic, thanks a lot

[Koroku]

Another example:
You have a forum with a Rules sticky. When current mods leave, and new mods come in, you just change the post owner to the new mod, so that people know who the moderator of that forum is.

[gsipromotions]

This is a handy little tool.
I use two accounts on my board. One is my personal account, the other used to post notices under my business name for a more professional touch.
This mod lets me do that without logging in and out of two accounts.

[ishare]

Very useful modification. I do thank you very much for this share...
Installed!

[-=Leb=-]

very good job

Installed