[#45026] - Batch - change authors for articles / categories (perhaps multiple issues)
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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
If you delete a user from the system, this will mean you have 'orphan' articles, categories, and other items within Joomla, which creates problems and you can no longer save those records, unless the create by is changed.
Describe the solution you'd like
if you want to remove a user from the system, you have to write manual SQL queries to re-assign the created by to a different author for:
- categories, articles, menu items and more
There should be an ability to batch the change create by author for Articles, Categories, and other items as needed.
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And to complete the list - Here is my plugin for this problem:
https://github.com/joomtools/plg_system_jtchuserbeforedel/releases/tag/1.0.1
FYI: It should also work in Joomla 5, but I haven't tested it yet.
FYI: It should also work in Joomla 5, but I haven't tested it yet.
I just tested it in a 5.3-beta2 and it works. Really well, in fact!
FYI: It should also work in Joomla 5, but I haven't tested it yet.
I just tested it in a 5.3-beta2 and it works. Really well, in fact!
To confirm, this is in Joomla 5.3? That would be great, thank you!
Rather than a batch change author function, which would be probably less used, wouldn't it be better to have a reassign option when deleting a user? Just asking the question I'm not trying to make more work for people.
Or both. Because just having the batch option, doesn't actually solve the first problem, they are still authorless which I assume has some add on problems potentially with blogs not having authors etc.
Just for history a (closed) example: #18160.