Cloning categories

[Jigsaff]

I have a category with 70 forums inside. I need to make another 100 different categories, which will include the same 70 forums. How can I do this?

 

[Brogan]

The only way to do it is to create each one manually.

 

[Mike]

I'd probably recommend rethinking things a bit - 7000 forums is almost always a bad idea.

 

[Jigsaff]

These figures are just for example.

 

[Morgain]

I remember asking about a clone feature when XF first started, and I went on mentioning it for s while but it faded out on me.
This is one of the few things I miss from VB. When making a new category or forum, I could select an existing one as a template, rename it, then tweak it sljghtly if necessary. Very useful.

 

[Martok]

'Cloning' forums is something that I miss from phpBB when I moved over to Xenforo. On phpBB when setting up a new forum you had the option of copying the permissions from an existing forum to the new one. I know that Xenforo lets child nodes inherit permissions from the parent but you can't do this for other nodes.

 

[Morgain]

Inheriting permissions is a big part of it, but also things like doing a copy and paste on the description, adding the order etc
VB had it so easy - a dropdown to select the forum or category then just change the name and you're done.

a mega addition would be batch clone - with an initial default naming convention of same name plus a numeral.

nodes as tabs might need a tweak

 

[rdn]

DP has his own addon similar to this, virtual forum.

 

[John917]

Any chance the addon is available? Looking for something like this right now. Any other ideas on how to do this without doing it manually? Perhaps through phpmyadmin...