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Can you move members from one forum to another?
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Melanie Nelson
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Mar 4, 2013 - 10:18 am

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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Mr Papa
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Mar 4, 2013 - 10:38 am

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

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Melanie Nelson
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Mar 4, 2013 - 10:58 am

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

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Yellow Swordfish
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Mar 4, 2013 - 11:13 am

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...

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Melanie Nelson
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Mar 4, 2013 - 12:23 pm

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!

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Mr Papa
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Mar 4, 2013 - 12:38 pm

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?

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Mr Papa
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Mar 4, 2013 - 1:08 pm

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

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