Mass close topics?

[ckhawand (Christopher Khawand)]

Is mass close topics available?
If not, I would recommend to add this option.

[joebuhlig]

To the right of the Topic header there’s a list icon. Click on that, select the topics you want to close, click the wrench on the right-hand side of the screen, and close the topics.

[ckhawand (Christopher Khawand)]

I mean, we have posts from 2008, and we would like to close all topics before 2015 let’s say, I won’t stay 1 day on selecting all that man!

[dax (Daniela)]

See here

Auto-close old topics from a migrated forum

I would SSH into the server and then cd /var/discourse ./launcher enter app rails c Topic.where(closed: false).where("created_at < '2015-01-01'").find_each do |topic| topic.update_status("closed", true, Discourse.system_user) end And you should have all the topics created before January 1st 2015 closed

PS: In support requests you should be a bit more specific

[JagWaugh (Andrew Waugh)]

@ckhawand

If not, I would recommend to add this option.

There is a setting to autoclose topics at a certain post count. And a warn user if topic is older than setting. An “autoclose after nnn days” wouldn’t be a bad idea.

[Mittineague]

At the Category level, there are

• close topics after n (topic creation time)
• close topics n after last reply (last post time)

I don’t know how it works with imported topics, but because importing topics is rarely done, IMHO there isn’t a critical need for a “close retro” Setting and a CLI command should suffice.

[mbbroberg (Matt Broberg)]

JA! Danke Joe, dass du diesen Prozess visualisiert hast. Ich war in einem Discourse, das ich übernommen habe, verloren, und dies war der fehlende Workflow für die Bereinigung.