chromaniac Posted March 8, 2013 Share Posted March 8, 2013 I originally posted it as a bug report and was asked to post it as a suggestion here. If you merge two posts... IPB does two things: 1. It merges the two threads without asking me which thread I want it to pick as the new parent one. 1. It kills the link of the second thread. It becomes 404. What I want IPB to do is to ask me which thread I want to keep after the merge. And I want it to redirect the second thread to link to the merged thread. Mike456 and Tripp★ 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eGullet Posted March 9, 2013 Share Posted March 9, 2013 See also: chromaniac 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chromaniac Posted March 10, 2013 Author Share Posted March 10, 2013 Sort of disliking my decision to switch from vB even more every new day. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike456 Posted March 28, 2013 Share Posted March 28, 2013 Sort of disliking my decision to switch from vB even more every new day. Thanks! +1 I never had any problems with my previous, free forum engine, and with IPB every day is a pain, merging topics, moving posts etc... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark White Posted January 12, 2021 Share Posted January 12, 2021 It will depend on which thread you click on Merge in... I forget but try two threads and do this... Lets call then thread 1 and thread 2... If I remember correctly if you click on thread 2 and merge it and past link to thread 1 I think its what you want... but if not reverse the idea start with thread 1 and select merge to thread 1 and see one way is what you want to do... Then remember better than I did and I hold two lifetime licenses even a branding free from Vbull had them since 1.6 version and this software hands down smokes it they just dont care were not European and they use weird like edit instead of post changes and the links should auto populate so I dont have to copy and paste it just like on FB the way theirs works... I am checking on my board now for you... BRB Ok So I copied Thread ones link address and then 2 became dominate so You need to select Thread one and merge then add the link to thread 2 and it should be what you want SeNioR- 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark White Posted January 12, 2021 Share Posted January 12, 2021 Also in regards to the link you have a chance to leave a redirect for 30 days I think I would assume you may be able to edit the duration or you could always copy the new link location and simply post a thread with that title... I will at times copy the information over from the inside post it below if its say a post or two I get for a very long thread thats not feasable but in that event ask using a support ticket and they will help you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morrigan Posted January 12, 2021 Share Posted January 12, 2021 Talk about a necro bump. “7 years later....” there is no choice in the parent thread because it merges the threads chronologically. The parent thread is the thread that was created first. SeNioR- and Sonya* 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark White Posted January 12, 2021 Share Posted January 12, 2021 well thats cool to know... Oh well It was on my page when it loaded and I was in fact messing with it so thx to you sir... I was trying and thats what it looked like I still like this better than Vbulletin so thanks again Morrigan 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel F Posted January 12, 2021 Share Posted January 12, 2021 This was actually added to IPS 4.5.4, but it's not retroactive! When you merge 2 topics, IPS will store the removed topic id and redirect to the other topic with a 301 status code. chromaniac, SeNioR- and DamonT 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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