By frodeh on

Is there an easy way to move f. ex. a forum topic to another forum topic. Or move a comment under a different node. In my forum now, i would like to create a new forum topic and move an existing forum topic (with its comments) under this new forum topic. How do i do this in drupal without too much fiddling with my sql database...

Is this understandable?

/frode

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seymourglass’s picture

seymourglass commented

As far as I know, it is impossible to move a comment to a different node without copying and pasting and then renaming the user. Also, the date won't match up.

I would however rate this as my most desired feature within drupal right now. I don't know how priorities are assigned, or how the wishlist of someone who couldn't code his way out of a paper bag (me) is regarded by those who decide on priorities, but this seems like an obvious administrator friendly feature that would make drupal more popular amongst those who actually choose cms's.

frodeh’s picture

frodeh commented

I would like this feature soon.... when i started my site i wasn't to clear on how to build the forum structure and now the users of my forum are requesting me to try to move stuff around..... it is too much work to do this without an admin feature....

frode

ShaiHulud’s picture

ShaiHulud commented

Same here,

I've just found this topic because I was searching for ways to do exactly this: enable users to dynamically structurize forum content, so to actually be able to move comments to different topics of make a comment into a new topic.

I often run into cases where a comment opens a new pathway for discussions, meaning it would be better to make it a new topic.

BakerQ’s picture

BakerQ commented

I've run into a situation a number of times where a user would post a book page node when they actually should have created a blog or story node. At first I thought it was easy enough to change the info in MySQL
UPDATE node SET type="blog" WHERE nid="x"
but that kept all the references in the book outline and didn't really update his blog easily - sticky solution that introduced more problems than it was worth.

It would be nice to have some way to transfer node from one location to another, or transmute nodes from one type to another.