Bulk changing topic ownership in Admin

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Bulk Changing Topic Ownership in Admin

The discussion revolves around the ability to bulk change topic ownership in Discourse as an admin. testingsoftware wants to merge two accounts by moving posts from one account to another but is looking for a bulk option to avoid doing it post by post.

omarfilip confirms that there is no bulk option in the admin panel and suggests a workaround found on Meta Discourse.

tophee agrees with the need for a bulk action and outlines the cumbersome steps currently required to change topic ownership for multiple topics. They ask if this feature might be added in the future.

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Hi

I want want to merge two accounts: A with old posts to B, new account with new posts.

As I don’t think there is a “merge” option I will follow a suggestion I have read to move all the posts from A to B and delete A account.

Now, there are over 50 posts, is there a way to bulk move them all logged in as Admin without having to run a command?

thanks.

A.

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No bulk option in the admin - you would have to go post by post.

This works best for multiple posts:

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Thanks, I saw that post while searching earlier on.
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I am still thinking the “vBulletin way” and looking for options that are not in Discourse. I’ll eventually get into this…

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Any chance that this (changing topic ownership) will be added as a bulk action?

Just to be clear: currently, what you need to do to change the owner multiple topics is:

  1. Open the topic
  2. Click on the … for access to the :wrench: icon
  3. Click on the :wrench:
  4. Click on “Change Ownership”
  5. Enter the username of the new owner
  6. Click “Change owenership”
  7. Navigate back to the topic list
  8. Goto 1