Merge boards

[dilaca]

I want to close one of my boards and rather than moving each post over to another board I was wondering if it's possible to merge boards?
Thanks.

[Jack.R.Abbit™]

When you say "board"... do you mean two separate installations of SMF or do you mean two boards within one installation of SMF?  If its the first one.. I don't know about that.  The second one could be accomplished... but I do believe it would take some back-ended database manipulation... like with phpMyAdmin.

every Post is assigned to a Topic... every Topic is assigned to a Board... every Board is assigned to a Category.  Running a query on the smf_topics table to change the ID_BOARD to the one you wish to move to... something like this:

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UPDATE smf_topics SET ID_BOARD=your_new_board_id WHERE ID_BOARD=your_old_board_idshould do the trick.  Of course you'll want to use your database prefix and the appropriate ID_BOARD values for your set up.  But it will move every topic thats in one board into the other... If you want to pick and choose... you'll have to do that by hand.

I hope that helps... and I hope that doesn't break anything.  no guarentee

[dilaca]

Whoa, sounds way to confusing so I'll give it a miss.  I was hoping I might have just missed a simple one step button to click somewhere.
I have been asked by the Football Club my site is about to delete one of the boards but I wanted to transfer all the posts to another board on the same SMF.
I'll just move the posts manually, one by one.
Thanks for your reply Jack.

[HRM]

WOW! Thats indeed heavy duty stuff....

I was just looking for the same function too.

One by one is one job when you're at dial up and the boards has quit a lot of topics.  But I r afraid there's no other option.

I mean two boards in one smf installation by the way.

Ed

[Owdy]

Use quick-moderation and move all threads at once to new board.

[HRM]

Quick moderation? Where do I find that? Cause it's axactly what i'm looking for I think.

Tnx in advance.
Ed

[Owdy]

profile -> Additional Preferences -> Show quick-moderation on message index as checkboxes

[HRM]

I did all that and I can select ( check) all topics but don't see any option to move or to edit.

Do you rthink I forgot to upload something when I upgraded the last time?

Ed

[HRM]

OOOPS!! I was a bit to quick in answering. Now I See it! 

And it works! Thanks!

Ed