CUNY Academic Commons

Thanks for submitting, Stephen!!

Boone -- FYI, he tried this after you had worked through issues with George

Thanks for the report, Stephen.

Our forum software has duplicate protection built in, and it counts as duplicate any two topics that are by the same author and have the exact same content. Because you were copying the exact content into the second forum, it was identified by this algorithm as a duplicate. So the behavior that you experienced is by design, and I'm wary of changing it, as it's an important protection against certain kinds of technical problems.

The simple workaround for the time being is to slightly modify/amend the topic content when posting in multiple places. Prepending a sentence along the lines of "Cross-posted from group x - apologies for any duplicate notifications" would ensure that the content was not identified as a duplicate, and would have the added benefit of apologizing for duplicate notifications :)

We are working on a feature for the next major version of the Commons that will provide a cross-posting interface during forum topic creation. When in place, this interface will be a better solution to the current problem. See http://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/3178. This feature should be available in mid- to late-May.

I'm going to mark this ticket as a duplicate of #3178. Stephen, if you'd like to follow progress on that ticket, please feel free to do so.