Creating group named same as existing forum - strange results

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tibor Posted: Thu, Mar 27 2008 9:32 AM

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 I'm trying to migrate existing private forums into groups. While exploring new CS2008 beta 2 I found strange thing.

When I create Group with exactly same name as existing forum then that group is automaticaly forum enabled and post in group disscusions are same as in that forum.

In other words:

If you create group named after any existing forum then that forums posts will be shown in newly created group.

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Ben Tiedt replied on Thu, Mar 27 2008 10:24 AM

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 I've logged issue #378 to investigate this further.  Updates to this issue will be posted to this thread.

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Jose Lema replied on Wed, Apr 2 2008 10:03 PM

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Hi tibor,

I cannot reproduce this error locally. If you're able to recreate it, could you use a free tool like Jing and record a quick screencast?

Thanks!

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tibor replied on Thu, Apr 3 2008 1:34 AM

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 Sure. I'm sending you link to captured video in PM. I have found workaround while i was creating my current private forums into groups via REST API.

This code will produce same error:

Group group = new Group();
string name = ForumName;
group.Name = name;
group.Key = name.ToLower().Replace(' ','_');

and this code works fine:

Group group = new Group();
string name = ForumName;
group.Name = name;
group.Key = "group_" + name.ToLower().Replace(' ','_');

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tibor replied on Thu, Apr 3 2008 2:47 AM

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 I created brand new forum, made few post into it and tryed to reproduce this issue. But this error didn't occured. It seems that my current forums, which was migrated from snitz.

So, this issue is most probably related to migration from snitz.

This code seems to removed issue from migrated forums:

 cs_sections set applicationkey=newid() where len(applicationkey) <>36