# Moving posts to new PM did not invite all participants
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/moving-posts-to-new-pm-did-not-invite-all-participants/108714
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [8 februari 2019 om 20:32 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moving-posts-to-new-pm-did-not-invite-all-participants/108714 "2019-02-08T20:32:49Z")
**Posts on this page:** 16
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@danekhollas](https://meta.discourse.org/u/danekhollas)
#### Post date: [8 februari 2019 om 20:32 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moving-posts-to-new-pm-did-not-invite-all-participants/108714/1 "2019-02-08T20:32:49Z")
Hi all,
let me just preface the new interface for moving posts around is great. ☀
But, I got recently burnt when moving posts from a topic to a new PM. I moved around 6 post from 3 different people (one of them me), but only two of them got invited to the PM. What tricked me was that the third person’s avatar was actually listed as a poster in the footer below the OP…
but I did not notice that she was not in the list of PM participants just bellow
Can anyone reproduce this problem? Or did I hit some weird edge case?
Thanks!
---
### Author:  [@JagWaugh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JagWaugh)
#### Post date: [8 februari 2019 om 21:21 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moving-posts-to-new-pm-did-not-invite-all-participants/108714/13 "2019-02-08T21:21:53Z")
I can confirm this. Today I changed a public topic with about 5 users and 9 posts. Only 2 of the users, as well as myself were invited.
---
### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [8 februari 2019 om 22:31 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moving-posts-to-new-pm-did-not-invite-all-participants/108714/14 "2019-02-08T22:31:53Z")
Can you repro this @rishabh?
---
### Author:  [@rishabh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rishabh)
#### Post date: [9 februari 2019 om 12:42 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moving-posts-to-new-pm-did-not-invite-all-participants/108714/15 "2019-02-09T12:42:20Z")
I could not repro this on my dev install with a topic that had mods, admins and regular users.
I’ll now test on this topic itself, sorry about the notification(s).
* * *
No repro on this Meta topic too ⬇
@JagWaugh @danekhollas Can you think of anything that’s possibly unusual about these users or topics that might hit an edge case?
---
### Author:  [@rishabh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rishabh)
#### Post date: [9 februari 2019 om 13:03 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moving-posts-to-new-pm-did-not-invite-all-participants/108714/16 "2019-02-09T13:03:42Z")
Okay, I just reproduced this on a topic on [try.discourse.org](http://try.discourse.org):
> **[What is your favorite TED Video](https://try.discourse.org/t/what-is-your-favorite-ted-video/97)**
>
> Which TED Video do you find particularly inspiring? (just post a link, we will do the rest)
There were 10 participants in the topic but only two of them (the originator + the person performing the conversion) were in the list of participants after converting to a PM.
---
### Author:  [@JagWaugh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JagWaugh)
#### Post date: [9 februari 2019 om 13:09 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moving-posts-to-new-pm-did-not-invite-all-participants/108714/17 "2019-02-09T13:09:44Z")
> [@rishabhn](#):
>
> anything that’s possibly unusual
No. The topic wasn’t particularly old, or long, and it didn’t have all that many users.
Here’s the summary:
Only the originator of the topic and myself were included in the PM.
I can’t remember now if I selected all the posts separately, or did it at the topic level - in any case all of the posts were in the PM.
---
### Author:  [@danekhollas](https://meta.discourse.org/u/danekhollas)
#### Post date: [9 februari 2019 om 13:24 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moving-posts-to-new-pm-did-not-invite-all-participants/108714/18 "2019-02-09T13:24:09Z")
Not really ☹ In my case all three users were mods. And I was moving from a post in a private category (restricted to certain group).
---
### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [9 februari 2019 om 23:05 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moving-posts-to-new-pm-did-not-invite-all-participants/108714/19 "2019-02-09T23:05:07Z")
Try data and users are so old, not entirely sure that is a valid repro unless the original topic was also from 2014 or older?
---
### Author:  [@danekhollas](https://meta.discourse.org/u/danekhollas)
#### Post date: [9 februari 2019 om 23:23 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moving-posts-to-new-pm-did-not-invite-all-participants/108714/20 "2019-02-09T23:23:04Z")
Definitely not, topic was from this month. Our our original install is fairly old, 2014/2015, but the user in question was created in 2017. We are currently at 2.2.0-beta+100, but I did not notice any commits related to this feature since then.
Thanks for investigating!
---
### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [10 februari 2019 om 01:52 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moving-posts-to-new-pm-did-not-invite-all-participants/108714/21 "2019-02-10T01:52:01Z")
> [@JagWaugh](#):
>
> I can’t remember now if I selected all the posts separately, or did it at the topic level - in any case all of the posts were in the PM.
Can you try varying the selection method @rishabh to see if that makes any difference?
---
### Author:  [@danekhollas](https://meta.discourse.org/u/danekhollas)
#### Post date: [10 februari 2019 om 14:35 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moving-posts-to-new-pm-did-not-invite-all-participants/108714/22 "2019-02-10T14:35:32Z")
In my case I only selected certain posts, not sure whether individually, maybe I clicked _Select+below_.
---
### Author:  [@rishabh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rishabh)
#### Post date: [11 februari 2019 om 06:50 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moving-posts-to-new-pm-did-not-invite-all-participants/108714/23 "2019-02-11T06:50:22Z")
I now have a consistent repro on this topic which happens ONLY if you follow these steps:
1. From the topic wrench, click Select Posts…
2. click select+below on the first reply (because the first post cannot be selected to move with this UI, that is only possible when doing a topic level move)
3. move to new message
The posts were moved correctly but @danekhollas wasn’t invited to the PM even though he has four posts in this topic. _Note that he is the OP and we couldn’t select the first post, maybe that’s the edge case._
---
### Author:  [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)
#### Post date: [11 februari 2019 om 11:37 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moving-posts-to-new-pm-did-not-invite-all-participants/108714/25 "2019-02-11T11:37:02Z")
Fixed in
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/dcd7b925327ac3523ccbf94216e43f3f6b56df52](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/dcd7b925327ac3523ccbf94216e43f3f6b56df52)
---
### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [11 februari 2019 om 12:14 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moving-posts-to-new-pm-did-not-invite-all-participants/108714/26 "2019-02-11T12:14:09Z")
This may need to be backported to stable?
---
### Author:  [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)
#### Post date: [11 februari 2019 om 12:59 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moving-posts-to-new-pm-did-not-invite-all-participants/108714/27 "2019-02-11T12:59:34Z")
Agreed, backported to stable branch.
---
### Author:  [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)
#### Post date: [11 februari 2019 om 13:34 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moving-posts-to-new-pm-did-not-invite-all-participants/108714/28 "2019-02-11T13:34:36Z")