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  • @Adriano Faria When promoting the first post to article, will the other posts be "promoted" to comments as well? I think it's best to have a perfect synchronization between the article and the topic.

  • Adriano Faria
    Adriano Faria

    Ok. Will do it until (or during) the weekend.

  • Lucas von Mecheln
    Lucas von Mecheln

    Hello, I bought this plugin yesterday, and I second the request to set the post's author as the article author.

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2 minutes ago, InsideEdge said:

But what happens to your original discussion that may have started before you promoted the Topic Post to Article?    

Another setting is needed to also choose what to do depending on if you promote the first post of the topic, or any other in the topic.

If you promote the first post, then what NoGi said works just fine, I don't see why it would need to be different.

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1 minute ago, InsideEdge said:

But what happens to your original discussion that may have started before you promoted the Topic Post to Article?    

I use articles for static content that is useful as reference. The discussion continues in original topic and those posts show as comments in the article anyway.

Question, it says promote only first post, is this optional (before i buy) as in can you promote and promote all posts below first post ?

 

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Just now, Cloud 9 said:

Question, it says promote only first post, is this optional (before i buy) as in can you promote and promote all posts below first post ?

It's a setting:

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If enabled, will allow only first post to be promoted. Otherwise, all posts can be promoted.

3 minutes ago, NoGi said:

I use articles for static content that is useful as reference. The discussion continues in original topic and those posts show as comments in the article anyway.

ok,  but if someone comments on the article then it doesn't show up in the forum discussion --- thus there then there is a disconnect of the discussion, right?  This is what I'd like to avoid.  

 

 

@Adriano Faria Thanks. When promoting does it give you the option to select which category to promote to within the db ?

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Just now, Cloud 9 said:

@Adriano Faria Thanks. When promoting does it give you the option to select which category to promote to within the db ?

Yes, as appears on first screenshot:

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39 minutes ago, Adriano Faria said:

Please, decide and let me know.

:frantics:

 
 

As reading through this discussion in this thread it seems that several here who wanted the article discussion in the forums have changed their mind and now use the feature to promote the topic post and all comments to the new Article.  

I do prefer to have my discussion content in the forums as the application "Blogs" really didn't work well on my site because my members look for topics only in the forums.  I don't really see my members looking through an Articles database to post comments, thus my need for this app was to highlight the best of the topic posts on a proposed new front page to the site.  The new front page is mainly to attract new members to the site.

Maybe the simplest feature to add for those who choose to only promote the topic post is to choose whether or not to allow comments. -- thus a statement as I wrote above to follow the discussion to the original topic can be manually added as needed.

 

I was really hoping it would just duplicate the process from 3.4.  I promote the post to an article and all of the other posts become comments,  the thread remains because that is where my comments are stored for all articles. 

56 minutes ago, CheersnGears said:

I was really hoping it would just duplicate the process from 3.4.  I promote the post to an article and all of the other posts become comments,  the thread remains because that is where my comments are stored for all articles. 

@Adriano Faria Another switch maybe in ACP ?

I like this idea as well

4 hours ago, NoGi said:

I use articles for static content that is useful as reference. The discussion continues in original topic and those posts show as comments in the article anyway.

I respect that, it's how some of my other sites work but without Pages, however for my needs on this particular community I'm then forced to keep Pages and Forums, whereas I just want to buy and run the mod once, use it to move topics into articles with any existing topic replies then becoming comments on the article, then I can dispose of Forums permanently. The author should stay the same and tags moved over too once the mod allows it.

 

At this rate I'm just gonna wait for IPS to re-introduce the feature... lol. @The Old Man what you are requesting... to me it feels a bit out of the scope, right now the topic comments are not really "copied" to the article, they show up in the article because of the IPS Pages setting "store comments in forum topic".

Maybe it would be easier to develop a script to move your topics with all the messages into articles for real. But that's up to Adriano.

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Thanks FP, yeah that's what IPS suggested actually. I think this mod, useful as it is, is probably more than I need.

 

 

10 hours ago, InsideEdge said:

ok,  but if someone comments on the article then it doesn't show up in the forum discussion --- thus there then there is a disconnect of the discussion, right?  This is what I'd like to avoid.

A good point, I guess I've never had this issue so don't know. What happens if you lock the article so you can't actually comment in the article hence forcing the comment to be posted in the topic thread?

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@Adriano Faria what ended up happening? Are we able to get the option to either use the original article or create new one?

At the very least, any chance of an update to fix the tags not promoting with the article issue?

hey so if somnody posts in the topic it shows up in the article as a comment correct?

Hello

 

This has stopped working for me

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It did used to work fine.

 

What may have gone wrong ?

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13 hours ago, Vanucci said:

Hello

 

This has stopped working for me

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It did used to work fine.

 

What may have gone wrong ?

Does it work on default theme? Is this the first post?

2 hours ago, Adriano Faria said:

Does it work on default theme? Is this the first post?

it doesnt work on default theme either and yes, this is first post

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Ok. Send a PM with URL and ACP account.

4 hours ago, Adriano Faria said:

Ok. Send a PM with URL and ACP account.

i've found the cause. Its the Kitchen Sink plugin that causes the issue.

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29 minutes ago, Vanucci said:

i've found the cause. Its the Kitchen Sink plugin that causes the issue.

Basically, he replaces part of a specific template for the content of his plugin, which kills any other to work there.

Edited by Adriano Faria

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On 24/07/2016 at 2:18 PM, NoGi said:

@Adriano Faria what ended up happening? Are we able to get the option to either use the original article or create new one?

At the very least, any chance of an update to fix the tags not promoting with the article issue?

@Adriano Faria any progress on this?

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