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Posted May 20, 20177 yr 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?
May 20, 20177 yr You would create a topics tab and then mass move the topics from the forum to the club "forum" or topic view.
May 20, 20177 yr Management Yes, as @Morrigan said, all you have to do is mass-move topics/blogs/etc. to your newly created Club area
May 26, 20177 yr Author 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.
May 26, 20177 yr Author 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.
May 26, 20177 yr What permissions? What settings? There aren’t any for the club forums. Access is defined through the club type and who is a member.
May 26, 20177 yr 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.
May 30, 20177 yr 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.
May 30, 20177 yr 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.
May 30, 20177 yr You can’t move the forum itself. You create a club forum and then move the posts to that new forum. Edit: Too late. ;-)
May 30, 20177 yr 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.
May 31, 20177 yr 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?
May 31, 20177 yr 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/
June 1, 20177 yr @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:
July 14, 20177 yr 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:
July 15, 20177 yr Author but does or will it auto join all participants in the forum threads as members to the club?
July 15, 20177 yr 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.
July 15, 20177 yr Author 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.
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