Moving Topics and Replies toanother Forum

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Webbo
Moving Topics and Replies toanother Forum
24 January 2016, 12:28


Is there a quick way of moving all the topics and replies from one forum to another ?

I want to delete a couple of forums but don't want to lose their content so it makes sense to move the topics and replies into another existing forum but doing each individually would take ages

Is there a quick way of doing it?
Thanks

 

Replies ...

Carefree
24 January 2016, 23:23


Did you consider the "merge forums" mod?
Webbo
25 January 2016, 02:39


Yes I did but the warnings and 'created in a rush' swayed me away from it
HuwR
25 January 2016, 03:30


You could possibly use a dbs script to do it (I'll check later but think it would be possible.
Why not simply lock the forum and leave it, not sure why you would want to delete one but keep all the posts.
HuwR
25 January 2016, 08:33


It should be possible using a dbs script, but I would recommend doing a backup first smile
The syntax would be something like

[UPDATE] FORUM_TOPICS
FORUM_ID#NEWFORUM_ID#FORUM_ID = OLDFORUMID [END] [UPDATE] FORUM_REPLY
FORUM_ID#NEWFORUM_ID#FORUM_ID = OLDFORUMID [END]
Webbo
25 January 2016, 15:32


I have a couple of old forums showing on the default.asp page which are no longer required but which I'd like to keep the topics/posts and which will fit into another forum of similar content

I'll back up and then try the above Huw .... don't go away bigsmile
HuwR
25 January 2016, 15:41


If you go to (Alternative MOD Setup) under admin options, you should be able to paste that code in the box and execute it (once you have inserted the correct ID's)

If you can run sql directly against your db, then you could do it that way too, the sql is pretty straight forward
Webbo
25 January 2016, 16:04


Nope that didn't work Huw, just returned an error...
Code:

UPDATE FORUM_FORUM_TOPICS SET FORUM_ID = 10 WHERE FORUM_ID = 57
-2147217865 | [MySQL][ODBC 5.1 Driver][mysqld-5.1.73-log]Table 'db_name.forum_forum_topics' doesn't exist
UPDATE FORUM_FORUM_TOPICS SET FORUM_ID = 10 WHERE FORUM_ID = 5
Webbo
25 January 2016, 16:15


Using the following Sql statements in MySQL Workbench did the job though..
UPDATE FORUM_TOPICS SET FORUM_ID = 10 WHERE FORUM_ID = 57
UPDATE FORUM_REPLY SET FORUM_ID = 10 WHERE FORUM_ID = 57

Many thanks
HuwR
25 January 2016, 17:02


No problem, I forgot it doesn't need the FORUM_ bit of the table name
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