Topics are orphaned despite passing 'deleteChildrenOrMove' when deleting a forum via the API, they should be moved.

Not moved:

Have the background tasks completely finished for the process here? Can check this in ACP -> System -> Dashboard -> Background Processes.

1 hour ago, Jim M said:

Have the background tasks completely finished for the process here? Can check this in ACP -> System -> Dashboard -> Background Processes.

It didn't appear to even create a background task

Thank you for bringing this issue to our attention! I can confirm this should be further reviewed and I have logged an internal bug report for our development team to investigate and address as necessary, in a future maintenance release.

 

From what I can tell, this seems to be by design? Even deleting a forum in the admin panel has the same effect. Topics aren't considered children of a Forum, but a content item. Although there's a confirmation on deleting in the admin panel, there's no indication that all the topics will be left in limbo.

As mentioned, this is a bug. If you delete a forum and specify to move children, it should move topics. If you outright delete a forum and specify to delete its children, it should delete them too. It should not just orphan the topics.

This issue was resolved in the recently released 4.7.13 release. Please update in order to fix this issue, and if you see any problem after that point, please let us know.