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Can you move members from one forum to another?

MN Melanie Nelson
Melanie Nelson
Member

I’m just curious if there’s a method of mass-relocating members of one forum to another?  We’re wanting to create a private forum that will have a particular membership list for a limited time.  Once that forum’s time limit has been reached, we need a method to take everyone that’s currently a member of that forum and move them to another forum.  Is there a way to select all the forum members, and copy or drag them to the membership of another forum?

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MP Mr Papa
Mr Papa
Member

No, not from a UI perspective… you could write a db query or short php function to move them using the api…

MN Melanie Nelson
Melanie Nelson
Member

Okay.  Could you point me to which functions I’m looking for in the API to accomplish that?

YS Yellow Swordfish
Yellow Swordfish
Member

Steve: Surely the Move Members will do this will it not? I know Melanie says ‘move from one forum to another’ but in practice this would mean a user group change surely. Or – indeed – just removing a whole User group from the old forum and putting them onto the new one as long as the User Group only contains the members in question…

MN Melanie Nelson
Melanie Nelson
Member

Exactly! Thanks!  (I’ll see if i can find this magical plugin you speak of XD)

ETA: Found it – not a plugin :)  It’s Forums > User groups > Manage User Groups.

Thanks!

MP Mr Papa
Mr Papa
Member

perhaps, I misunderstood the desire… Melanie, can you clarify exactly what you want to do? will it be every user in a usergroup, ie can you move the entire usergroup to the new forum… or select members? do you have the ‘single membership’ option turned on?

MP Mr Papa
Mr Papa
Member

cool… so yeah, misunderstood what you wanted…  glad you found it… ;)