Moving Discussion Topics Between Forum Categories and Groups

Over the weekend a member of my network posted a discussion topic in the main network forum that did not belong there. The topic more appropriately belonged in one of our network's group forums. I had to delete this topic from the main network forum, and then contact the member and request that they post it in the specific group forum instead. He sent me a message back asking why I didn't just move it there, and I had to explain to him that Ning has not yet given network admins the ability to move discussions between the main forum and group forums. I also had to tell him that I originally requested this back in 2009, but I'm still waiting. I find it odd and annoying that I keep seeing little improvements here and there, but one of the biggest issues of our network remains unresolved. Is it seriously taking Ning over a year to implement this option, or did they just shelve the request and will get to it *someday*? I guess the only thing I can do is to continue to request it. I would appreciate an honest, concrete timetable as to when this will be added, because I feel if I am paying $500/year for a network, I should be able to have better controls over our forum. With phpBB forums this sort of functionality is built right in. Why is it so hard for Ning to make it a function of their forums/groups?

Thanks,
Jeff Kopp
GaragePunk Hideout
http://garagepunk.ning.com

Tags: discussions, forum, groups, merging, moving, topics

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Permalink Reply by Eric Suesz on April 9, 2012 at 10:46pm

Hoping we can get the indicator in there for you. But... I'm not so confident about the ability to move replies (or split/merge topics). Absolutely love those ideas, although they are for the very tidy among us (I would use them here on Creators occasionally, no doubt).

I will advocate for them, although they aren't going to be part of this update.

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Permalink Reply by Cyndi on May 29, 2012 at 3:31pm

Hi Eric! Any update on the ability to move discussions across Groups? Excited to hear we may see this within the next few weeks....

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Permalink Reply by Judi Shugart on May 29, 2012 at 3:57pm

I agree with you...very excited that this will be done! What say you Eric?

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Permalink Reply by Charlie on April 9, 2012 at 11:36pm

So glad to see this happening finally!! :-)

Thanks Eric (and the rest of the team too! lol)

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Permalink Reply by Asil on May 17, 2012 at 3:52pm

I can't wait for this to be implemented ...just had another member flame our admin staff because they were asked to move their comments to another group thread after their post had to be deleted. June cannot come soon enough!

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Permalink Reply by Judi Shugart on May 17, 2012 at 4:46pm

I so agree with you on this. We have had Admins leave because of members getting upset over just asking them to move comments. Let's get this fixed..

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Permalink Reply by Apostolos K. on May 29, 2012 at 1:53pm

+1... let's get this fixed soon (as in the next couple of months) ;-)

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Permalink Reply by Eric Suesz on May 29, 2012 at 4:06pm

That's the plan.

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Permalink Reply by kopper on May 29, 2012 at 9:24pm

Any sort of target date on when this update will happen? Still June, right?

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Permalink Reply by Eric Suesz on May 29, 2012 at 11:33pm

That's what I'm told, although we are admittedly bumping up on June right now. When I have a more firm date, I will share it.

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Permalink Reply by kopper on June 7, 2012 at 8:00am

Well, my members are also aware that it's June and they've started bugging me about this, so they want to know, and the rest of us all here want to know, too, esp. now that we're a full week into June.

Thanks.