Merge and Split discussions - possible?

mjaworski

I am helping someone with their Vanilla board (completely new to it) and we cannot seem to find an option in Vanilla to split or merge a discussion - is it not implemented? Is there a plugin for it? Or maybe its possible to write on (I am a PHP dev so if theres nothing out there I'll just write something but it's the hard way)

UnderDog

Can you write a plugin that splits and merges threads?
There's no possibility to split and merge threads at the moment.

mjaworski

I am currently working on a plugin, but as I am completely new to Vanilla, it can take a long time before I figure out how to use the framework. So far I managed to inject split/merge buttons using a plugin and DiscussionController_CommentOptions_Handler method. Now Im trying to figure out how to plug any actual logic under these buttons

mjaworski

At this point working on merge stuff in my plugin this is what I have:

1. a link next to the first post linking to eg. /discussion/merge/32273
2. a method in plugin DiscussionController_merge_Create

And I am stuck not knowing how to invoke a view, where I could try rendering a form

mjaworski

$Sender->View = 'merge';
$Sender->Render();

OK that was pretty obvious. I think I am on a good path

luc

Can you write a plugin that splits and merges threads?
There's no possibility to split and merge threads at the moment.

http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/15420/merge-discussion-threads-in-vanilla-2#Item_3

Not sure about split.
And maybe it wasn't on the "Garden" github, but the one with addons. I'll try to remember to have a look tomorrow.

luc

Yep, it's in the regular Garden github repo.

'Name' => 'Split / Merge', 'Description' => 'Allows moderators with discussion edit permission to split & merge discussions.',

=> https://github.com/vanillaforums/Garden/tree/unstable/plugins/SplitMerge

mjaworski

As far as I can see its pretty useless anyway because the plugin uses framework elements that are not in Vanilla, it wopuld require me to hack the entire forum inside out but maybe i can use some of it to write an actual plugin

luc

It might just use elements that are in unstable that's all.

I don't see the core dev creating and pushing to github something useless.

mjaworski

Its not useless in general, but it just has no application in my case. I would need to move a lot of unstable code to the live install to make it work, and it would probably not work.

But I can try figuring out how the logic is supposed to work, and use it in my own plugin that would work on stable Vanilla