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SMF Development => Feature Requests => Topic started by: Arantor on September 03, 2013, 07:19:47 PM

Title: Merge accounts
Post by: Arantor on September 03, 2013, 07:19:47 PM
Right now we have reattribute, which means a deleted account's content can be attributed back to a user.

What about merging two accounts together? The process is, mostly, the same except you're not matching details off username or email address but from a user id instead. There are a few slight variations (e.g. around PMs, where you need to do a bit more checking to ensure you don't end up with duplicate rows in the DB, e.g. a PM sent to both accounts) but nothing huge to fix.
Title: Re: Merge accounts
Post by: Burke ♞ Knight on September 03, 2013, 07:21:21 PM
This is something I'm also very interested in. :)

Been waiting for something like this.
Title: Re: Merge accounts
Post by: Arantor on September 03, 2013, 07:25:19 PM
A basic version is barely an evening's work for a competent modder. Finishing it up with the PM stuff is probably a further half day's work.
Title: Re: Merge accounts
Post by: Spuds on September 04, 2013, 05:11:53 PM
I did a mod that does this ... however I'm sure it took me more than an evening so I would not suggest using it  :P
Title: Re: Merge accounts
Post by: Burke ♞ Knight on September 05, 2013, 12:10:56 PM
I knew there was something very familiar about this request.
I made similar request back on January 4, 2009.
Merge Users (http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=284216.0)
Title: Re: Merge accounts
Post by: Arantor on September 05, 2013, 12:12:35 PM
There's one thing different about this request. That picture up there, that's not a mockup.
Title: Re: Merge accounts
Post by: Burke ♞ Knight on September 05, 2013, 12:23:59 PM
Picture?

Hate to say this, my friend, but I don't see a picture.

Also, the request I made is rather old, before a lot of other changes were made, so I hope that it bodes better results this time around. :)
Title: Re: Merge accounts
Post by: Arantor on September 05, 2013, 12:25:11 PM
Bah, I swore I attached a picture.

Reattached, anyway.
Title: Re: Merge accounts
Post by: Spuds on September 05, 2013, 12:47:12 PM
QuoteThere's one thing different about this request. That picture up there, that's not a mockup.
Ah nice way to present it, mine ended up a bit more complicated (as usual) ..
http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?action=download;mod=3309;id=195041;image
http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?action=download;mod=3309;id=195053;image
Title: Re: Merge accounts
Post by: Arantor on September 05, 2013, 12:48:52 PM
That mod isn't approved :/
Title: Re: Merge accounts
Post by: Spuds on September 05, 2013, 03:49:06 PM
Well it was but then later moved to your best friend gitHub  O:)
Title: Re: Merge accounts
Post by: Arantor on September 05, 2013, 03:50:26 PM
But Github doesn't have pictures :P
Title: Re: Merge accounts
Post by: vbgamer45 on September 05, 2013, 03:53:09 PM
What is the github link?
Title: Re: Merge accounts
Post by: Arantor on September 05, 2013, 03:54:32 PM
https://github.com/Spuds/SMF-Admin-Toolbox
Title: Re: Merge accounts
Post by: vbgamer45 on September 05, 2013, 03:56:38 PM
Oh yeah cool I use that one that can easily be included here with SMF
Title: Re: Merge accounts
Post by: Arantor on September 05, 2013, 03:57:16 PM
The licence would make that interesting since it's MPL licensed while SMF itself is BSD.