Convert Forums to Clubs?

[Ocean West]

I have several Sponsors Forums by some advertisers - i'd like to convert their forums to clubs let them manage them - is there a path to do this?

[Morrigan]

You would create a topics tab and then mass move the topics from the forum to the club "forum" or topic view.

[Ocean West]

the same would be for blogs?

[Morrigan]

Yes

[Charles]

Yes, as @Morrigan said, all you have to do is mass-move topics/blogs/etc. to your newly created Club area

[Ocean West]

yes but I have third party already using the URL to the forum in their documents / website / and url shorteners. Moving topics to a new setup forum in side clubs will invalidate all existing established links to the forum.

 

[opentype]

Yes, the forum URL will change but you can forward the old one it if necessary.

[Ocean West]

wouldn't it be better to just internally move forum 147-some-existing-form and all it's content directly into the club with out having to remember to add a forwarder somewhere? Or perhaps create a forwarder that stays around for x days like it does when you move a post.

Having to setup a forum and permissions and all the esoteric settings is tedious when i would just like to move this the forum lock stock and barrel into a club.  

[opentype]

What permissions? What settings? There aren’t any for the club forums. Access is defined through the club type and who is a member. 

[Joel R]

I agree that IPS can make it easier to move existing forum topics or nodes into the club.  That's how Group Collaboration by @Kevin Carwile works, where you just assign an existing node to a collaboration.  

In Clubs, you'll need to physically copy and move existing forum topics into Club forums.  

[WOFman]

I have not been able to figure out how to move forums sections into clubs. We have a private women's group on my site with posts that go back to 2009. The women have created a club but now I need to move the forums in there.

[Adriano Faria]

You need to create a "topics" section in the club and then MANUALLY move all topics from the forum to the club. 

That's what I understood. 

[opentype]

You can’t move the forum itself. You create a club forum and then move the posts to that new forum. 

Edit: Too late. ;-)

[Adriano Faria]

*I think* it can be easily done via hook.

[Adriano Faria]

3 hours ago, Adriano Faria said:

*I think* it can be easily done via hook.

Just made a few tests and yes, it's a question of update a few columns here and there. It will be on my clubs enhancements plugin.

[pequeno]

On 26/5/2017 at 5:58 PM, opentype said:

Yes, the forum URL will change but you can forward the old one it if necessary.

How?  Is it done automatically?

[WOFman]

Thanks for the help, figured it out

[BenCurry]

Sorry to butt in here,  What is 'clubs'?

 

[Adriano Faria]

Just now, BenCurry said:

Sorry to butt in here,  What is 'clubs'?

New feature in IPS 4.2: a sort of social groups.

https://invisioncommunity.com/clubs/
 

https://invisioncommunity.com/news/new-clubs-r1017/

[BenCurry]

HUH!  OMG!!!!  This will be amazing for my community.  thank you for the reply.  

[Simon Woods]

@BenCurry You should check out the News posts, there's all kinds of good stuff in there. There's even an overview that can help you catch up: 

 

[Adriano Faria]

On 19/05/2017 at 10:22 PM, Ocean West said:

I have several Sponsors Forums by some advertisers - i'd like to convert their forums to clubs let them manage them - is there a path to do this?

Now you can:

What's New in Version 1.0.4:

New Feature:

• Convert forums or apps categories into Club Features with a single click, so you don't need to move a bunch of items (topics, images, files, events, etc) - Admin CP feature.

New option in all nodes on ACP:

 

See it in action:

 

[Ocean West]

but does or will it auto join all participants in the forum threads as members to the club?

[Adriano Faria]

No and I really find hard to believe that any admin will want to add hundreds or thousands of member in a club. That won't be added to the plugin. 

[Ocean West]

but if you are converting a form to a club and moving posts made by people - then your essentially removing all their content from their view - should they search for a post they made it wouldn't be seen unless they are a member of said club. therefore I would think it be prudent for that option to exist so that end users don't have to 'do' anything their content has now been moved into a club.