On my forum, when I try to Move Reply or Merge Topics, every merge that I try, ends up in a single completely different topic. I had a look at that specific topic in the database but can't seem to find why all merges end up in this specific topic.
For example, when I merge this URL
https://www.myurl.nl/community/isere/test
to
https://www.myurl.nl/community/isere/0002394
it ends up in
https://www.myurl.nl/community/anotherboard/0002294
Note that the slug numbers differ by exactly 1 digit. I tested another topic and the same thing (in that case, topic with slug 0002395 merged into 002295 which was a completely different board).
Here is the database dump of the topic that is used everytime
| topicid | forumid | first_postid | userid | title | slug | created | modified | last_post | posts | votes | answers | views | meta_key | meta_desc | type | solved | closed | has_attach | private | status | name | prefix | tags | |
| 2394 | 293 | 2594 | 42 | Mogouhy Mine | 002294 | ######## | ######## | 2594 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Hi @danokorst,
Could you please record a video with the issue and leave it here.
Addition: this is a video of the Merge function. But the exact same behaviour happens when using Move Posts.
Please note currently the Merge/Move functionality work only for the full URLs, not for short URLs.
However in the next versions update we this will work for short URLs as well.
Hi Alvina I noticed in the release notes that this was fixed in one of the latest versions. Just tested it today again (same principle as on the video), but the merged topic still ends up in another random topic instead of the target topic.
Maybe have a video call or something to see what is wrong?
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@alvina I have done your suggestions but without succes. So I went back to testing and found out that the bug is in the slug that is made based on the topic title. If the title (and thus the slug) is numeric. Either fully numeric or leading 0 numeric do not allow a merge. The forum now gives the message "target topic does not exist".
Here are my tests
- https://url.com/board/test merge to https://url.com/board/test-2 -> WORKS
- https://url.com/board/test merge to https://url.com/board/99999-> Does not work
- https://url.com/board/test merge to https://url.com/board/00999 -> Does not work
Turns out that it was not related to short URL's but to numeric setup of the slug.
Note: I have also performed the following just to be sure that it is the slug column:
- https://url.com/board/test
- Created second topic https://url.com/board/test-2
- Updated the slug of test-2 on database level 99999
- Refreshed and rebuild form
- Does not work
