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[Michael]

File Name: Forum Pruner Task
File Submitter: Michael
File Submitted: 26 Jul 2010
File Category: Invision Focus Products

A System Scheduler hook that will prune selected forums on a monthly basis. You can choose one or more forums to prune, and set the pruning schedule using IP.Board's System Scheduler. Note that you set a single schedule that will prune all selected forums; you cannot choose separate schedules for different forums. There are settings that enable you to not prune Pinned topics in the selected forums, choose whether to delete topics from the database completely, to only prune topics with X number of replies for fewer (so as to keep any popular topics in the forums from being pruned), and to only prune topics that have not had a reply in X number of days.

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[sunrisecc]

Michael:

Re: The new condition added in 1.0.1

Can I just select the new condtion alone or must it be used with the original condtion (fewer than x posts)?

[Michael]

You can do either one. For each setting that deals with what topics to prune, it checks to see if you set that setting, and if so, it applies it to the list of topics to prune.

[sunrisecc]

Thank you.

[Dave MacLeod]

I am using M32 delete old topics, is this something that would replace this or supplement it?
could they be used together to "fine tune" cleanup a bit?
I never understood why IP did not address this natively, smf has its faults but it had a SUPER cleanup setup, each forum had own schedule.

if this would be better then M32 I will gladly buy it.

[Michael]

I don't know that other product, maybe it does the same thing as this. This one has always been one I've done as a paid product and just recently updated it for 3.2. If there's a question about this that you might have, I can answer that?

[Dave MacLeod]

well have always had good luck with your stuff so will purchase in 2 weeks when check arrives.
and if they coincide well thats just a plus then
if they do can set up weekly for some forums and monthly for others.

either way I will purchase soon.

[AndyF]

I'm not sure this has worked for quite a while now, I thought that a bit ago but left it to its own devices to be sure.

Please see following screenshots, you'll note the topics are quite old regarding their last reply, and the settings look good to me. The hook is up to date and the task is enabled too.

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 pruner_2.png   10.93KB   2 downloads

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 pruner_4.png   40KB   2 downloads

[Michael]

Do the Scheduler Logs for this show anything?

[AndyF]

Yes, bizarrely the same (263 topics), I ran it manually today to check but you can see from the pic:

 pruner_5.png   17.57KB   1 downloads

They are not in Removed Content, the topics are present in the Test forum still.

[Michael]

OK, worked with Andy and tracked down a couple of issues. The topics weren't being pruned because the 'number of days' setting was designed a bit too confusing. It was set to 0, which will then only prune topics with 0 replies, and the topics that weren't being pruned each had replies. So I reworded that setting a bit.

I also tweaked the code somewhat to be more efficient, it'll prune all the topics at once instead of looping and pruning one-by-one. I also made sure to not try and prune topics already in the 'deleted content' section.

[Michael]

This app still works fine for IP.Board 3.4, nothing was changed except the documentation indicating its new compatibility.