Forum Duplication Tool

This is a port of my 3.0.X Hack which can be found here

Description
This addon allows you to easily copy/clone/duplicate a forum (and all of its sub-forums).
Content (eg. Threads/Posts) will not be affected.

Usage instructions
Upload the files from the ZIP to the appropriate directories, a new entry in AdminCP Nav will appear automatically.

Warning!
This is fast-written Alpha-Code!
Although I did a few tests and it seems to work just fine I won't give any warranties - use it AS-IS at your own risk.
I strongly advice you NOT to use this in a production environment.

History
1.00 Initial Version for vBulletin 3.5.0 Beta 1
1.01 Updated for Beta 3: The Link now appears in Navgroup Forums & Moderators instead of creating another Navgroup.

Please only click Install if you actually have installed/are using this Hack, and click Uninstall when you don't use it any longer!

[Discussions]

This seems to be working just fine in 3.7.0 Beta 4. I duplicated 1 forum into 30 extra forums without encountering an error.

[marcossalazar]

For those of you that have used this, are your new forums showing up in the advance search under "Search in Forum(s)?"

Thanks

[Reeve of shinra]

I assume this wouldn't duplicate a usergroup and the permissions it has for that forum will it?

[marcossalazar]

Originally Posted by Reeve of shinra

I assume this wouldn't duplicate a usergroup and the permissions it has for that forum will it?

I have used it before and I believe it does. The problem I got was that none of the forums showed up in the advance search section that shows all the child forums

[nothing4me]

Works perfectly on VBulletin 3.7.0!

[danielc2384]

any way to bring the actual threads in the forum as a duplicate over too?

[timgreen]

Hi Andreas

This tool is working really well on 3.7.3 patch level 1 but I have loads and loads of duplicate forums to make. My customer insists on making them all even though most will stay empty for a long time.

I am adding about 20 forums at a time in an alphabetical list of top level forums. Each one has 40 + identical sub-forums!

Can I stop the updating forums process, add all the ones I need and then let it run through them all rather than letting it update after each batch?

Thanks
Tim

[seangworld]

thanks for your post, tim. it made me decide to download/install.

i have a situation tho, maybe someone here can advise me...

during the last 24 hours (not consistant, i took breaks and slept) i already created all the categories which are continents, countries, states.... but i only set up the full tree for my home state (hawaii). what's under 'hawaii' is what i wanted to copy to all the other forums. so, how the heck am i supposed to do that??? the categories are already there.

[musayhi]

This little product save me a huge time.

Thank you very much

you can look to the result, - if you know arabic of course- at www.saoura.net

[MegaBlue]

Does that exist for the VB4?