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

[MaximG]

Thanx a lot! Great mod! Особенно за русский продукт!

[t2k7]

Thank you. Excellent mod!

[atmaca]

Thank you, useful mod. Turkish translation can be downloaded from the attachment.

[Phalynx]

Thanks for sharing.

[atmaca]

Originally Posted by Phalynx

Thanks for sharing.

Not at all.

[Feanor_87]

Thanks for this great MOD, very useful!

[smirkley]

Originally Posted by smirkley

I may be missing something, but how can I block the option from showing up in the moderator options pull down if that usergroup doesnt have permissions to use it?

Right now it shows up, but of course permission is denied when a non permissed staff usergroup tries to use it. I just want to hide it if they dont have permission.

Looking forward and hoping this gets updated before everyone starts coding for vB4.0

Thanks in advance.

[microguy]

When I change the post owner, the attachments no longer work. The thumbnails show inline of the full-sized images, but they will not load upon clicking. If I change the post owner back to the original owner, the links work again for full-sized images (attachments).

[Phalynx]

Originally Posted by microguy

When I change the post owner, the attachments no longer work. The thumbnails show inline of the full-sized images, but they will not load upon clicking. If I change the post owner back to the original owner, the links work again for full-sized images (attachments).

This is a known issue, already on my todo list:

- Moving file based attachments to the new user

[SEW810]

Installed. Very useful hack
Waiting for attachments bug to be fixed
Hello Phalynx, I don't know if you asked for help before but...
Can I translate this hack into Spanish?

Regards.