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Posted July 27, 200816 yr I was looking through my Trash Can earlier, and noticed a couple posts that got deleted unnecessarily. Now, I know it shows the topic ID in the trash post, but it's missing a key feature - restoring it to the thread. After all, tisn't the whole point of the trash can to moderate the moderators? It's kind of hard to do when 1, you can't post as a user; and 2, you have no idea where in the thread the post was. It would be nice to have a "Restore deleted topic/post" option in the moderator menu of the trash can.
July 27, 200816 yr Doesn't the restored post to a topic just resume its order as before since the time stamp is still the same as the original?
July 27, 200816 yr Doesn't the restored post to a topic just resume its order as before since the time stamp is still the same as the original? It would...if you could restore a post. <_<
July 27, 200816 yr I haven't had to do it in a while. I just moved it back to the topic from whence it came. I might have merged the topic in Trash with the one where it came from.
July 27, 200816 yr Yeah, you can just merge the "topic" in the Trash into the original topic. A bit more work than just clicking a button though.
July 27, 200816 yr I think as its structured now (probably wrong)... deleting a post to trash is really the automated task of moving it to the trash forum as its own topic (saving steps manually). To have a quick restore, you'd need a table for tracking what topic the post came from no?
July 27, 200816 yr Not really. Since you can refer to the deleted post by its new "deleted" topic ID, you can grab and parse the original topic ID from the description very quickly.
July 27, 200816 yr Yeah, it would be simple to just turn off editing topic description for the topics generated for deleted posts in the trashcan, the trashcan forum id is one of the global acp settings I think.
July 29, 200816 yr +1 Also more control over the trash can, like selecting whether a group can delete from it or not. :P
July 29, 200816 yr You could do this by just adding a "Multi-Moderation" tool which does a preg_replace for the topic description with the current IP.Board structure and updates the posts topic_id value (or whatever it's called) and deletes the topic from the garbage bin.
July 30, 200816 yr That sounds hard to use, I would rather just overload the behaviour of clicking on the topic icon.
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