I am using the core forum module along with Advanced Forum on Drupal 6.20. When I try to move Forum topics using this module from the main content administration page the posts in the new forum contain the shadow link to the old forum, rather than being moved. I was thinking that this may have something to do with the fact that the old Forum Taxonomy Term was still attached to the topic, but even after removing the old Forum Taxonomy Term from the topic it remains in the old forum with the shadow link in the new forum. Does anybody know why this is happening and/or what steps I can take to make this work properly?

Attached is a screen shot of the new forum I am trying to move posts into. NOTE: The topics that do not say "This topic has been moved to Latest News" are the ones that I manually edited individually and placed in this "Fun Pic of the Day" forum. I am looking to get this effect using the Taxonomy Multi Edit module so that I do not have to manually edit thousands of topics.

Thanks,
Mike

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dman commented
Category: bug » support

I had a look at forum.module.
It seems that taxonomy tagging is only half the story.

      // We keep the actual tid in forum table, if it's different from the
      // current tid then it means the topic appears in two forums, one of
      // them is a shadow copy.

- this tells me that a post is connected to a forum by something that is not taxonomy. Although taxonomy multi edit can change the taxonomy, it is not changing that underlying relationship that forum.module manages.

A pity, because I would have hoped/guessed that what you tried would have worked too. But it's not just a matter of re-tagging.

So
* either forum needs to provide a tool for bulk operations,
* or taxonomy multi edit may be extended to mess around with forum node internals.

* Or maybe see if there is a utility within views bulk operations that may help with that
* or ?? I can imagine a few other approaches

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Anonymous (not verified) commented
Component: User interface » Code
Category: support » feature

Hi dman,

Thank you very much for your prompt reply, I was unaware that there was more to the forum assignments than just the taxonomy terms, so that makes perfect sense as to why it is not working. Thank you for your alternative suggestions and I will post my findings here as I try them out.

In the meantime, I do not know if this is within the scope of the taxonomy multi edit module, but just in case, I am switching this to a feature request. I hate to say I won't be able to contribute any patches as I am not experienced enough of a programmer, but if anyone else finds the need for something like this any contributions would be much appreciated.

Thanks,
Mike

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Anonymous (not verified) commented

Just to follow up with this, I have implement Views Bulk Operations (VBO) and was able to achieve the needed functionality to mass-move forum topics between forums. I have only tried this on my development server, and our forum administrator will be testing it on the live site within the next few days... when I have more info I will update.

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dman commented
Issue summary: View changes
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

Module deprecated (ages ago) in favor of better utilities found in Views Bulk Operations (or maybe Editable Fields
Closing old tickets.