Remove or hide the forum dropdown from the reply edit screen

[MZAWeb]

It's confusing, and modifying that value breaks the reply.

Two options come to mind:

1) Hide it and have a way to make it visible for troubleshooting
2) Remove it and add a tool in Tools that traverses all Topics and fixes the Forum->Topic->Reply relationship.

[MZAWeb]

2270.patch hides the dropdown, and introduces the bbp_show_forum_dropdown_on_replies filter to enable it.

[MZAWeb]

I didn't realize point 2 is already in core. bbp_admin_repair_forum_meta() does that.

So I think that's all.

[mordauk]

I noticed this the other day. Should the forum be automatically selected based on the reply ID entered?

[alex-ye]

Instead of removing it, Why not only print the forum title with a link to edit screen, I think it's good to know the reply forum easily :)

[johnjamesjacoby]

Torn about this. I want Key Masters to be able to edit all of the meta data, but also don't want to allow them to mismatch it.

Moving to 2.5.

[johnjamesjacoby]

Trivial, so moving to 2.6.

[netweb]

Related: #2463

I'm against this in it's current iteration, primarily if a new user to bbPress has just imported forums from another platform and the import didn't go so well (sadly, still does happen) they can have 'Orphaned' forums, topics and replies with bbp_get_orphan_status_id.

I don't think they should have to search to find a filter to turn this on to correct a mismatched forum id.

[johnjamesjacoby]

Thanks for the insight netweb. I'm in agreement with you on the why's. I wonder if we can introduce a smarter UI for this, or maybe a tool to fix the orphaned or misaligned replies?

Closing this as worksforme, and let's rethink this UI in a future release.

[johnjamesjacoby]

We could also only show the UI when we see that the forum is misaligned, and suggest an update?

[johnjamesjacoby]

Let's do that. Let's hide the UI unless we see a mismatch, and only show the forum ID if a mismatch is visible.

Going to reopen and assign to myself, to do in conjunction with #2463.

[netweb]

Updated the 'Topic Attributes' and 'Reply Attributes' screenshots in #2463

Basically separating what is 'core' meta from what is not 'core' meta for topics and replies.

[johnjamesjacoby]

In 5510:

Only allow direct modification of reply forum meta when there is a mismatch with the topic forum.

This prevents moderators and keymasters from creating mismatches and leaves the tool available only for repairs (usually after a migration from a different platform.) Fixes #2270.