Administrative and Maintenance Tools - Multiple Promotion to Articles

An easy to use addon for promoting multiple threads to articles without losing time, using inlinemod. It promotes to an article the first post from each selected thread to the selected section of the CMS.

It's in Beta, so please give feedback.

Features

• Promotes multiple threads to articles at once

• Section selection for the publication of the Articles

• Uses forum and CMS permissions

• It publishes it immediately with the same date as the original post.

• It doesn't allow you to promote already promoted threads and soft deleted ones.

Instructions:

Having the required permissions, on the forum display, select the threads which you want to promote by clicking on the checkbox on the right and open the inlinemod menu and select "Promote to Articles". You will be presented with a screen to select to which section you want to publish the articles in. Select the desired section and click "Promote threads".

[Louva-Deus]

@BadgerDog and what was the solution?

This sounds just like what I need. Good thinking.

[washingtonboise]

I understand what a thread or post is, but what is an 'article' in vbulletin and what are the benefits?

[thincom2000]

Thanks for this. Used it on both my sites and it was a HUGE time saver.

[raisun]

I'm probably a little late to this party, but I wanted to try this on VB 4.1.2 and it seems to work well with one issue: bbcode are converted as text, so when the articles are promoted you see:

Have you entered a <a target="_blank" href="http://www.mysite.com/Sweepstakes">My sweepstakes</a> before?

Instead of the actual link. If we go in and resave the article (making no changes), it will then process the link properly. Any thoughts on this?

[DJ XtAzY]

I have multiple categories in each sections. Is it possible to have an option to promote to a specific category, just like how you can promote to a section?

[CouponWCents]

Thank you!!!!!!!!!!

[Dutch_Boy]

Hi is this still a ongoing project or is it dead in the water?

Would love for it to work with Vb 4.1.2, thanks!