To moderate our forums we'd like to take new topics that are really comments to existing topics and move them from being a unique topic to a comment of an existing topic. We'd like to retain the original poster information in the move. Is this possible in the existing forum structure? If not, is this an administrative feature you would consider adding to the service?

This is not possible now but sounds like a good idea.

I would appreciate comments from others on this.

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Dmitry Buterin, Chief Apricot

I like this idea.  The admin might like to move a persons comment to another category or forum area.  WA staff do it all the time :)  It would be something that I could see as valuable, but not a high priority.

I agree -- valuable, but not as high priority as some other things.

This would be fantastic. At the moment our moderators will only have an iron first: They can delete or edit a comment.  Having more moderator abilities is very important to what we want the forums to be and being able to move a thread is a vital aspect of that.

I would welcome this feature too! At the moment, I have to ask members to re-post in a different thread which is far from ideal!!!

I agree, being able to move topics between forums, and to generally manage topics / comments etc in their entirety would be really valuable to us...

We are hearing you guys and appreciate the feedback and input. We are increasing the priority of forum enhancements in our pipeline. This is still some time away- thanks for your patience.

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Dmitry Buterin, Chief Apricot

Currently:
When a forum is created, all topics and replies cannot be moved from forum  to forum. From time to time a topic might be posted in one forum which might be might appropriate in another forum. As well, forums might also be redundant and should be consolidated, or a post may spawn a whole new conversation.

Desired:
1) The ability to move a topic and its replies from one forum to another. This would send an email to all people who have posted in it that the topic has been moved, and possibly leave a note in the forum that the topic has moved.

2) The ability to join threads. This would moves all the topics and replies from one forum into another one. It would then delete the existing forum or close one forum and leave a not there informing people of the move.

3)  Split a thread at a certain point so that the post becomes a new thread.

Yes, Yes, Yes to all you described.  We are having significant issue managing forums without the capability you describe.

Although a separate, but related, issue, please consider providing the ability to “archive” news blogs.  Because of historical needs we need the ability to move current, out-of-date news stories to an archive blog that can be included on a separate web page.  Unless I have missed something that currently cannot be accomplished.  Thanks!

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Mike Ranger
USARA

I too would find this function useful.  Just today a member put a topic in the wrong forum and I was trying to figure out a way to move it.

I realize there are  many subjects being reviewed; but, it is hard to imagine that only two of us see value in this particular topic.

We use forums and blogs as primary informational (current news) and communication mode among members.

We currently have no way to manage all that without the capability originally suggested. We need to be able to “juggle” posts.

I would hope more users would see the value of this.

Thanks!

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Mike Ranger
USARA

Yes - I would definitely use this feature.  Would also want to be able to move a topic from one forum to another.

This is the primary reason we don't currently use the WA forums. I would love to see these features added.

Not being able to move, merge, and split forum threads is becoming more frustrating.  I have another member who added a comment to a topic when they should have created a new topic.  I have no way to fix it so I email the members and ask them to fix it but so far they haven't.

Moving and merging posts is important to us as well as being able to close a thread for further comments.

Moderators need to be able to move posts and topics around when they're started in the wrong subforum. I'm sure there are other mod enhancements that would be useful, but that one has been really challenging for us.

 

Thanks.

It’s time for me to jump in again!  I’m happy to see there are few more customers expressing the need for the ability to move and/or archive forums/blogs.  I am still surprised that this topic has such little interest. While the continuing changes/updates in WA fantastic; it is still my opinion this topic needs resolution as soon as possible.

We use both the forum and blog functions built into WA and do not want to use third-part solutions. However, without the ability to move forum and blog topics (keeping everything organized) all is becoming disorganized and confusing.   There are topics we want to move to a historical location; off the main topic pages. Albeit we are only a few that consider this a priority; please consider in a near-future update.

Thanks…

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Mike Ranger
USARA

Yep. I posted a wishlist item about this general issue:

http://community.wildapricot.com/thread/20571.aspx

 

Our members have complained to us that the forum is not useful for a variety of reasons, and this is one of a few issues that we identified as problematic (along with the time stamp issue, and no search feature - for recent posts, e.g.). We're considering moving our forum to vBulletin or something, but I just hate to move any of our functionality out of WA because of the link to current membership records.

Any idea of how long a forum upgrade will take would be much appreciated.

Vesta, unfortunately it will be a while - all our resources are tied up with other enhancements. 

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Dmitry Buterin, Chief Apricot

Again - unfortunately no chance to have it in 2011

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Evgeny
Product Design Team

Really, this is an important one. Please try to address it early in 2012, then.

It comes up too often that comments or an entire thread should be moved to a different forum, where it belongs.

 

Thanks.

 

I was just looking for how to information in the on line docs on how to move a topic and was very disappointed to find out that I could not. I would like to see this feature added to your software, 

I would also appreciate the ability to move a post from one forum to another, thanks.

I would like to be able to delete a posting.  Perhaps i don't koow how to do it other than delete all the replies one by one.  Lacking a ForSale capability, the forum works but I and users need a way to remove the original post when the item sells.

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Bob Oswald