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Posted October 3, 200519 yr Hello... I have a very large board (schaltroller.com) and there are some categories, were a prune feature for topics would be very useful...e.g. marketplace It should be an automated prune, e.g. all topics without reply for x days shall be automatically pruned.
October 5, 200519 yr +1 I've already asked for this feature. Autoprune settings for each category. Still no reaction :(
October 5, 200519 yr I guess you can use "Mass Prune/Move" option for that :S True! However if the feature requested was added, it would save me 30 minutes per month of manual purging.
October 5, 200519 yr +1 Especially with forums that accept RSS import posts this would be very handy to have automated. I don't need 1 month worth of CNN news on my forum. ;)
January 26, 200619 yr Especially with forums that accept RSS import posts this would be very handy to have automated. I don't need 1 month worth of CNN news on my forum. ;)LOL, that's exactly why I was searching here. ;) Hmm, now that I know that such a feature doesn't exist, it shouldn't be difficult to write a task based on the prune API functions of the board. I'll look into it...
February 2, 200619 yr Thanks! I've been waiting for something like this for a long time. It works as advertised. Only two comments: 1) Including some basic directions for installation might be nice. Those of us who're used to IPB won't have problems, but it might throw newbies for a loop. 2) This doesn't allow for different settings for different forums. All selected forums get the same settings. No big deal, but if possible it would be a nice feature to add.
February 2, 200619 yr 1) Well, should "newbies" use such a script in the first place? I think if an admin doesn't know how to import ACP settings, upload a file or set up a task, it is not very advisable to use something like automatic deletion of content. I'm stating "import ACP settings" and "upload file to...", which should be enough for every admin that knows how to use the ACP. I don't want to provide tutorials for basic usage of the forum or the ACP, but if any user feels uncomfortable setting it up I'm glad to give support in the script's support topic at IPSBeyond. 2) Forum-specific settings could only be achieved by making use of the component system which would complicate things a lot (storing settings, setting it up). It would also be ten times the coding effort.
February 22, 200618 yr And here it is. I've uploaded it at IPSBeyond. Link: Automated Topic Pruning. Does anyone have a direct link for "Automated Topic Pruning" ? I'm getting DNS timeouts on ipsbeyond.com
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