Moving posts

Technical Details

Forum version : #phpBB3
Position : Administrator
Concerned browser(s) : Mozilla Firefox
Who the problem concerns : Yourself
Forum link : http://pspplaygroundpals.forumotion.com/

Description of problem

Hello!
If you are confused on the mod tools that you have access to for your forum just check out the link below! This will tell you about the merge tool and such to merge 2 of the topics back together.

https://help.forumotion.com/t10773-guide-to-mod-tools

Hope that helps!

Cheers,
James

Hello,

I think I know why. Forumotion forums have a limit to how many posts a single topic can have, the limit is around a thousand (could be off by a hundred or so). When the limit is reached, the system will auto split the topic down to exactly 998 posts. The system will also lock the original thread and put a link to the new topic in the last post of the thread.

Unfortunatelly there is nothing you can do about this, the limit can not be changed and if you attempt to merge the topics back together, the system will split it again.

I find the best thing to do is to edit the first post of the new topic, saying its a continuation thread and then also link to the original thread.

I know this may not be the solution you were hoping for, but it's about the best one (aside from splitting the topic yourself before the limit is reached).

I apologize for any inconvience this may cause you or your users.

-Brandon

hello

The exact limit is

Messages in a subject: 990 messages (once the limit reached, the subject is locked and splitted)

It takes the system some time to split the topic so you might see a topic with 1,000 posts before it is split into 2 topics.

Tip:  If this happens again, you should look to see if there are 2 or more topics with the same topic title.

yes from your moderation tools choose split
this way you can split a topic in two, either by selecting the posts individually or by splitting from a selected post