Hello,

Wanted to suggest a feature to the bbPress community, would love to see the ability for a keymaster or moderator to be able to copy/duplicate a topic into another forum. I would find this especially helpful with my bbPress+Buddypress set-up which has users silo’d into Group Forums depending on what course/product they’ve purchased on my site.

Happy to discuss if the community is interested in implementing this into bbPress or as a plugin.

Thanks

[@garrett-eclipse Participant 9 years, 5 months ago]

I’ve also opened this onto Buddypress as it may make more sense as a Buddypress feature since Group Forums provide membership capabilities so users only have access to certain group forums and topcis.
Buddypress TOpic – https://buddypress.org/support/topic/duplicatecopy-topic-into-another-forum/

[@robkk Moderator 9 years, 3 months ago]

Sorry for the really late reply, but see if this helps you. I know it is not duplicating and instead moving, but I feel like this is what you are trying to do.

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[@garrett-eclipse Participant 9 years, 3 months ago]

Thanks @Robkk,

Would love if it was that simple, sadly the clients wants to be able to have topics shared among multiple forums. I’ll be looking into this again in a month and will post any solutions as I come across them.

Cheers

[@robkk Moderator 9 years, 3 months ago]

Weird request. Only thing I can think of to do this is maybe editing the posts data manually in the database to have multiple parent forums, but I am not sure if that would work quite well.

[@garrett-eclipse Participant 9 years, 3 months ago]

Thanks @Robkk,

For sure, I thought so myself. They use groups for organizing their course students and found certain topics make sense being shared among courses.

Appreciate the thought I’ll start there when I start diving into the project.

Cheers

[@prettiggeleerd Participant 6 years, 2 months ago]

Hi @garrett-eclipse
Have you found a solution for this?
I have the same question in a similar context: creating sub-groups of students each with their own forum.

[@garrett-eclipse Participant 6 years, 1 month ago]

Hi @prettiggeleerd,

I didn’t look much further for a solution to have a single topic shared between forums and instead duplicated the topic and moved to the second forum. Sadly this means replies were specific to each unique topic and not shared in thread.

Sorry I don’t have a better solution for you, I just used the Duplicate Post plugin to create the duplicate topics.

If you find a solution post here as I’d be interested.

Thanks