the same problem:
http://lussumo.com/vanilladev/discussion/40/move-a-discussion-to-a-new-category-possible/
for new discussions I can edit the category, but for the old ones not!
????
I want just to move old discussions to other categories... or delete them!
For new discussions I can change the category if I edit the very first comment, but for the old discussions only text area is visible...
I converted the db from phpbb and so all the discussions that I have in phpbb I can find in Vanilla under the right categories in the forum, but if I edit the very first post of them only the text area is visible...
that's the problem...
No, I think he didn't used it! Look at his last post:
"Sure, I understand that. I've been experimenting with vanilla on a local install with an admin login and two kinds of guest logins. When logged in as admin, I only get the "edit your comments" window when I edit the first post for all my earlier test discussions, and the title and category fields don't show. All those posts were created before I started adding new categories, i.e. when General Discussions was the only category.
Later I made another category to test shifting discussions between categories but couldn't find the option, which is why I posted here.
I made a new post to test your answer as described above, and on that post everything works as it should: I get the "start your discussion" window and _can_ change title and category. But for the old posts I still cannot switch categories or edit the titles."
I also created another one category after my phpbb-migration!
I had the same problem with my phpBB migration. It was especially difficult since we had hundreds of topics on the old forum.
In the end, I had to just use phpMyAdmin to manually set the category for all of the old discussions. Took quite a while.
I think the problem could be that the converter is trying to assign phpBB categories that don't exist in the Vanilla install to discussions.
Very annoying, but I've had worse problems with phpBB in the past..
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"Sure, I understand that. I've been experimenting with vanilla on a local install with an admin login and two kinds of guest logins. When logged in as admin, I only get the "edit your comments" window when I edit the first post for all my earlier test discussions, and the title and category fields don't show. All those posts were created before I started adding new categories, i.e. when General Discussions was the only category.
Later I made another category to test shifting discussions between categories but couldn't find the option, which is why I posted here.
I made a new post to test your answer as described above, and on that post everything works as it should: I get the "start your discussion" window and _can_ change title and category. But for the old posts I still cannot switch categories or edit the titles."
I also created another one category after my phpbb-migration!
yes, I think too that the reason is not the converter...