Overview
Once your community becomes quite active, as a moderator, you might run into scenarios where you need to merge two discussions or create a new discussion from a comment which might not belong.The Split/Merge functionality within Vanilla makes it very simple.
Split / Merge is an addon that can be enabled at all plan levels.
Merging Discussions
The reason you may want to merge a discussion is that they may be similar in nature, and the issues or topic would be best served being dealt with together. To merge two discussions, you simply select the two (or more discussions) you wish to merge together.
After you have selected both discussions, you will get a notification in the lower left (also known as a growl). It looks like the following:
If you select "move", you now have the option to place both discussions in a new category from the pop-up that will appear.
If you select merge, you will see the following pop-up which will combine both discussions into one:
Splitting a Discussion
Sometimes, as moderator, you may come across a discussion which may be better off as it's own unique discussion thread. If you run into this scenario, you can use the split function. To use it, select the specific comment(s) you wish to split:
Once again you will get a small notification in the lower left, that looks like the following:
Once you click split, you will be given the option in a pop-up to create a new discussion:
Now you can create a new discussion with a new topic title from the split comment. This allows the original discussion thread to stay on topic.
Permissions
Splitting
To split a discussion, the mod or admin will require the Delete.Comment permission for the category that the comment is being split from, and the Add.Discussion permission for the category that the new discussion will be created in.
Merging
To merge a discussion, the mod or admin will require the Delete.Discussion permission for the category that the discussion was posted in and the Add.Comment permission for the category that houses the discussion it will be merged with.
