Unmerge Posts
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Andrew Rasmussen
Sometimes you accidentally merge a post that you didn't want to. Once all of the votes and comments have been moved over, this can create a big mess. It's a pretty tricky feature to build, but I think we can manage it at some point. Interested to see how much traction we get here.
Sarah Hum
Coffee Nightingale: So the logic is a bit complex but basically, take 3 posts, A, B, and C.
If you merge A into B and then B into C, you cannot unmerge A out of C. You can unmerge B from C but not A from B after that.
I won't go into the technicals about why we implemented it that way but hope that makes sense!
Sarah Hum
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You can now unmerge accidental merges! Thanks for your feedback :)
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Coffee Nightingale
Sarah Hum: is there a limitation to unmerge?
I can not do so under older posts (4 days or so)
Sarah Hum
Coffee Nightingale: So the logic is a bit complex but basically, take 3 posts, A, B, and C.
If you merge A into B and then B into C, you cannot unmerge A out of C. You can unmerge B from C but not A from B after that.
I won't go into the technicals about why we implemented it that way but hope that makes sense!
Sarah Hum
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Coral Sloth
Sarah Hum: YAYAYAYAYAYAYYAAAAAAASSSSSSSSS!
Sarah Hum
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Hello everyone, happy 2020! We're planning to make a bunch of improvements around Canny this year—including this! Please reach out directly or comment here if you have additional thoughts on this feature. Otherwise, stay tuned for more updates!
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Beige Quail
Sarah Hum: Woohoo!
Andrew Rasmussen
Merged in a post:
Undo Merge
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Amaranth Loon
I would like the ability to undo a merge if it was done my mistake.
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Coral Sloth
I agree with White Ferret we desperately need a "Duplicate this post" feature so that I don't manually have to add 80 names to a vote as I had to do TWICE this week due to a bad merge.
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White Ferret
This also just highlighted another couple Canny limitations --
a) While an admin can recreate the original post and even replicate the original voters for the merged post, they cannot hide the merged post from view (even if the merged voters end up retained). Allowing an admin to visually suppress the merged post would be an acceptable workaround, once they'd recreated the original post.
b) There's no super-admin permission level that would allow that user to remove the merged voters once the original post is recreated. We wouldn't want regular admins to have this permission, so would need a higher level permission to limit the volume of users who could do this. There are actually a handful of other permissions we'd want to move up to this level, from the regular admin level.
Obviously an Unmerge Posts feature would be wonderful, but absent that, we need a viable workaround, namely:
1) recreate the original post (easy enough),
2) hide the merged post, similar to removing a comment (not currently possible),
3) remove the merged votes (not currently possible).
If 2) and 3) should be separate Canny feature requests, let me know and I can create those. But only having both of them will give us a viable workaround for the lack of an Unmerge posts feature.
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Misty Guanaco
For us, it's not really an immediate accident, rather a change that happens down the road. A big feature can have many smaller components and therefore we merge those smaller items in to the larger one. But sometimes scope changes as we develop features, so the ability to remove those posts (unmerge) from the scoped task would be great.
Andrew Rasmussen
Merged in a post:
Unmerge post
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Ethical Chipmunk
I've accidentally merged the wrong posts together - I'd love an undo!
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White Ferret
Yes, agree this is needed! Accidents can definitely happen and unmerging is like having a Cmd-Z / Undo feature during those times. :)
Andrew Rasmussen
Uh oh! It is a heavy operation and we do ask you to confirm it. 😯
Sorry for the inconvenience, we don't currently have a way of undoing merges.
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