what is the mechanism to copy a conversation to a thread?

[Tom McIntyre]

I have looked at the options and the images here on this site and cannot find a description of how to copy a conversation to a forum or a thread in a forum.

I expected it to be one of the options when a conversation was selected for action but it is not in the list either here or on my site.

The management functions are nice, but I actually bought it to be able to do the copy/move.

 

[Xon]

You need the "[ConvEss] Copy conversation messages to thread" permission, then at the top of the conversation there are these options;

(The XF2 version supports using in-line mod-tools to bulk export conversations)

 

[Tom McIntyre]

Although I do not believe it was there earlier, the copy to thread shows up now at the head of the conversation. I noticed that it is not capable of merging a conversation with an existing thread, but it is fine for moving it to the forum and creating the thread.

When I tried to do the merge it showed a nasty error screen that would not go away until I left the page. No real problem except that it surprised me.

 

[Xon]

You need to wait for the export to finish, and without seeing the error screen it is hard to say what happened.

 

[Tom McIntyre]

It was complaining about interleaving the dates from the two sources. I think I can reproduce it at will.

I was trying to merge a conversation with a very old thread that had some recent new posts. Since I was content to just copy it to a new thread, I did not pay that much attention to it.

 

[Tom McIntyre]

This is from the error log.

XenForo_Exception: Cannot insert a message in the middle of a discussion. - library/XenForo/DataWriter/DiscussionMessage.php:449
Generated By: Tom McIntyre, Wednesday at 10:50 PM
Stack Trace
#0 /home/xfnawcc/public_html/library/XenForo/DataWriter/DiscussionMessage.php(354): XenForo_DataWriter_DiscussionMessage->_setPosition()
#1 /home/xfnawcc/public_html/library/XenForo/DataWriter.php(1460): XenForo_DataWriter_DiscussionMessage->_preSave()
#2 /home/xfnawcc/public_html/library/XenForo/DataWriter.php(1399): XenForo_DataWriter->preSave()
#3 /home/xfnawcc/public_html/library/Andy/InsertAttachment/DataWriter.php(8): XenForo_DataWriter->save()
#4 /home/xfnawcc/public_html/library/Andy/ConvertImage/DataWriter.php(8): Andy_InsertAttachment_DataWriter->save()
#5 /home/xfnawcc/public_html/library/SV/ConvEss/Model/InlineMod/ConversationMessage.php(465): Andy_ConvertImage_DataWriter->save()
#6 /home/xfnawcc/public_html/library/SV/ConvEss/Model/InlineMod/ConversationMessage.php(334): SV_ConvEss_Model_InlineMod_ConversationMessage->copyMessageToPost(Array, Array, Array, Array, 1554346222)
#7 /home/xfnawcc/public_html/library/SV/ConvEss/XenForo/ControllerPublic/Conversation.php(1165): SV_ConvEss_Model_InlineMod_ConversationMessage->copyMessagesToThread(Array, Array, NULL, Array)
#8 /home/xfnawcc/public_html/library/XenForo/FrontController.php(369): SV_ConvEss_XenForo_ControllerPublic_Conversation->actionCopyToThread()
#9 /home/xfnawcc/public_html/library/XenForo/FrontController.php(152): XenForo_FrontController->dispatch(Object(XenForo_RouteMatch))
#10 /home/xfnawcc/public_html/index.php(13): XenForo_FrontController->run()
#11 {main}
Request State
array(3) {
  ["url"] => string(81) "https://mb.nawcc.org/conversations/marshs-movement-protector.62397/copy-to-thread"
  ["_GET"] => array(0) {
  }
  ["_POST"] => array(11) {
   ["thread_type"] => string(8) "existing"
   ["existing_url"] => string(60) "https://mb.nawcc.org/threads/marsh-movement-protector.20758/"
   ["copy_timestamps"] => string(2) "on"
   ["delete_type"] => string(6) "delete"
   ["_xfConfirm"] => string(1) "1"
   ["redirect"] => string(0) ""
   ["_xfToken"] => string(8) "********"
   ["save"] => string(27) "Copy Conversation to Thread"
   ["_xfRequestUri"] => string(47) "/conversations/marshs-movement-protector.62397/"
   ["_xfNoRedirect"] => string(1) "1"
   ["_xfResponseType"] => string(4) "json"
  }
}

 

[Xon]

This happens if you retain "copy timestamps" and try to import into an existing thread. This is a known issue with the XF1 version.