Ability to move entries between Sections, and categories between Category Groups.

[angrybrad]

Created by: Julian Kovalsky (julzmon@gmail.com) on 2015/03/19 18:25:13 +0000
Votes at time of UserVoice import: 8

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A number of times I have ran into having to move an entry to different Structure and not being able to without manually editing the database or copy pasting.

[angrybrad]

Posted by Brandon Kelly (brandon@pixelandtonic.com) on 2015/03/06 03:54:45 +0000

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Here's some PHP code that can make it easier, in lieu of built-in support for moving entries between sections: http://craftcms.stackexchange.com/questions/4433/move-entry-from-one-structure-to-another-with-parenting/4467#4467

(We do hope to make it possible from the UI at some point though!)

[kristianserrano]

@angrybrad do you happen to have a similar script for moving categories between groups in Craft 3?

[snagelia]

Hello,
I am trying to move channel entries from one section to another in Craft3 multisite by directly updating the DB table and it is not working. Please help me what I am doing wrong. Below are the details of my steps:

I am in process of implementing Craft3 multi-site for our existing website in Craft3. To avoid recreating entries for the new sections, I am thinking to move entries from old section to new sections. I have both channel and structure type sections. First, I am trying to move channel entries from old sections to new by editing the MySQL db as per the recommendation is this blog: https://craftcms.stackexchange.com/questions/2021/move-entries-between-sections . So far I have just updated one entry but the entry is not showing in the new section. Below is little more details of what I did:

1. Old sectionId is 10 and old typeId is 13. Below is the entry before the change in the entries table:
   +-----+-----------+----------+--------+----------+---------------------+------------+----------------------+-
   | id | sectionId | parentId | typeId | authorId | postDate | expiryDate | deletedWithEntryType | dateCreated | dateUpdated | uid |
   +-----+-----------+----------+--------+----------+---------------------+------------+----------------------
   | 144 | 10 | NULL | 13 | 1 | 2017-11-27 14:33:00 | NULL | NULL | 2017-11-27 14:33:04 | 2018-12-07 14:55:57 | fefe3db7-ab34-4796-9898-0ac0b0bf2fd8 |

2. New sectionId is 58 and typeId is 106.

3. So I went to entries tables and updated the the sectionId and typeId of entry with id=144. See below the entry in entries table after the change:
   ----------+--------------------------------------+
   | id | sectionId | parentId | typeId | authorId | postDate | expiryDate | deletedWithEntryType | dateCreated | dateUpdated | uid |
   +------+-----------+----------+--------+----------+---------------------+------------+----------------------
   | 144 | 58 | NULL | 106 | 1 | 2017-11-27 14:33:00 | NULL | NULL | 2017-11-27 14:33:04 | 2018-12-07 14:55:57 | fefe3db7-ab34-4796-9898-0ac0b0bf2fd8 |

| 2686 | 58 | NULL | 106 | 31 | 2019-04-01 16:38:00 | NULL | NULL | 2019-04-01 16:38:48 | 2019-04-30 13:32:34 | b66e6381-221c-4733-8794-80f3fe5afc4c |

| 2687 | 58 | NULL | 106 | 31 | 2019-04-30 13:47:00 | NULL | NULL | 2019-04-30 13:47:55 | 2019-04-30 13:47:55 | 4d1f5999-84ea-46a9-99b3-5c5fe2691f56 |
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Problem is I don’t see the updated entry in Craft dashboard at all. Could you please help me understand what did I do wrong or missing here?
Thanks.

[alexanderbuergin]

Is there a new Version of the php Script to do that in Craft CMS 4?

[thupsi]

FWIW this should be trivial to do in Craft 5, due to the entrification of categories and the decoupling of entry types from sections.

[alexanderbuergin]

Thanks. I know, but I'm looking for an option now. :D

[brandonkelly]

Craft 5.3.0-beta.1 is out with the ability to move entries between sections 🎉 (#14541).

We’re targeting August 6 for the GA release. If you’d like to test ahead of time, change your craftcms/cms requirement in composer.json to:

"craftcms/cms": "^5.3.0-beta.1",

and then run composer update.