Merging posts.

[Entris]

I was reading the thread about Disabeling post counts.... when someone double posts in a certain amount of time and got an idea i would think would be usefull.

A way for the Admins to be able to merge posts, if someone doubleposts instead of editing their original post or in some cases add more information in a new post further down the thread it would come in handy if you could just "Select" the post then chose "Merge With" (or just Merge) and then "Select" the post you want to merge it with.

The outcome of merging the posts would be something like a quote box with the merged post in it in the first original post.

Just something I would like to be able to do in a fast and easy way, donno if anyone else thinks so though but figured i'd throw it out here

[Ryan Roos]

This was suggested before.

Again a double post is not a bad thing on all forums so this doesn't apply everywhere. Additionally you can already do this manually if you wish to. It isn't a priority with v5 coming so soon. Thank you for the idea though.

[Wormopolis]

Dec 26, 2012 14:30:45 GMT -8 Entris said:

I was reading the thread about Disabeling post counts.... when someone double posts in a certain amount of time and got an idea i would think would be usefull.

A way for the Admins to be able to merge posts, if someone doubleposts instead of editing their original post or in some cases add more information in a new post further down the thread it would come in handy if you could just "Select" the post then chose "Merge With" (or just Merge) and then "Select" the post you want to merge it with.

The outcome of merging the posts would be something like a quote box with the merged post in it in the first original post.

Just something I would like to be able to do in a fast and easy way, donno if anyone else thinks so though but figured i'd throw it out here

Dec 26, 2012 14:49:34 GMT -8 Ryan Roos said:

This was suggested before.

Again a double post is not a bad thing on all forums so this doesn't apply everywhere. Additionally you can already do this manually if you wish to. It isn't a priority with v5 coming so soon. Thank you for the idea though.

hey Ryan, when the quote button is clicked, where does it check for selected posts?  I was going to convert my automerge code for this, but was wondering if I could make it quote multiple from  single click...

[Entris]

Dec 26, 2012 14:49:34 GMT -8 Ryan Roos said:

This was suggested before.

Again a double post is not a bad thing on all forums so this doesn't apply everywhere. Additionally you can already do this manually if you wish to. It isn't a priority with v5 coming so soon. Thank you for the idea though.

Yeah i know it aint valid for all boards so figured that an option for the admins to be able to merge the posts into 1 post would be handy for those that doesn't want it.
How can i do this manually? You mean copy the text and then edit the first post and paste it there and delet the second post (as we do now) or is there another way I have no idea about?
Was ment to be a V5.x feature if it was added not rushed in straight away, wouldn't expect something like that so should have been more clearer with that sorry.

[Ryan Roos]

Wormopolis Tim shall reply below me.

Entris I added this to our list of future ideas. If it was just an option in the gearbox whenever it was a double post and it could handle the edit of the first post and deletion of the second automatically then we would consider it. As you said v5.x Also, yes manually doing so the way you described.

[Tim Camara]

Wormopolis - If I understand your question correctly, the selected posts are tracked with a hidden checkbox. They should be wrapped with a span of .post-options-checkbox, so you could target them like so:

$('.post-options-checkbox input[type="checkbox"]:checked')

[Wormopolis]

ok. then to make this work, I have to add an event to the hidden checkbox. thank you sir!

[Tim Camara]

No problem.

[Entris]

Dec 27, 2012 11:03:23 GMT -8 Ryan Roos said:

Wormopolis Tim shall reply below me.

Entris I added this to our list of future ideas. If it was just an option in the gearbox whenever it was a double post and it could handle the edit of the first post and deletion of the second automatically then we would consider it. As you said v5.x Also, yes manually doing so the way you described.

Cool tyvm Ryan Roos