Mass copy threads/posts??

[chris_psycho]

Yes, you are right. I actually want to duplicate data! Is there any way to mass copy threads???

[Lynne]

No, there is currently no way to mass copy threads in the default vbulletin code.

[chris_psycho]

Is easy to modificate the copy function in order to mass copy posts?

May sb help? Thanks a lot!

[chris_psycho]

any help pls for mass copy?

[tenoch]

I need this to

For an online training course, I want to duplicate forum and top post, for starting a new course without the answers to those threads of pass courses

Because every two months I make a new online couse

[M.C.]

join to request!

[tbworld]

I wish people spent a little more time thinking this through. Lets say you copy the thread: now do we add another reference to that thread from the original poster or will it just be an orphan now. You should rename the thread prefixing it with "duplicate" or it's going to be difficult to determine the master thread. Now you have two threads with the same content. Are you going to synchronize them continuously or are they now just two separate threads with almost the same content, because if the threads are currently open more content could be added. The only thing I can see is to duplicate the "CLOSED" thread and call it an archive with the prefix 'Duplicate'.

Oh I get it... It would be nice to have a backup copy. I went though the same thinking until I really started thinking about it...

The way I handle it in the large board I oversee: The board rules state that all content belongs to the board. You can soft delete the post under your username, but if we find it valuable, then we will re-post it as an anonymous user to the same thread, same post number -- another words we just change the post's owner.

@Marco in post #9 had it right: Do a redirect and call it a day.

If someone really has a solution to all this and has really thought it through, you can contact me and I would entertain writing a mod for it. At the current time I cannot find any logic for doing it. Anyway, I hope this helps the debate in some small bit. I wrote this at 4:00 am on a plane, I hope it makes sense.