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How can you easily move an entry from one form to another without loosing the conversation that was with it. I want to move my entry from writing workshop to collaborative writing workshop but keep the conversation from writing workshop.

your friendly neighborhood

The simple answer to this question is that you simply can't.

A more helpful answer is that although you can't move the whole conversation thread from one review forum to another, you can:

1) remove your entry from the writing workshop. when you do this, the thread that was in the WW will be moved to hang off the bottom of the entry.

2) submit the entry to the collaborative writing workshop, and in the post where you submit it, provide a link to the thread that had previously been in the writing workshop.

This is how people generally handle moving entries from one forum to another -- it takes a few steps, but it works. Hope this helps some.

Mikey

What you can do is remove your entry from one forum, submit it to another and put a link to the first forum in your submission posting. It probably won't stop people talking on the second forum, but it at least enables you to easily keep track of the two.

OK, I have moved the entry but I am having problems making the link, I can make normal links but I have never made any in a conversation.

I have tried
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For links in conversations you copy and past the URL for the conversation you want to refer to. Like this one for our current conversation - http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/brunel/F56952?thread=293626&latest=1 You can then if you wish shorten it by removing everything up to the, in this case F56952, and it will still work - F56952?thread=293626&latest=1 If the conversation is pretty short, or you want to refer to the first posting in the thread - which seems the best idea in your case. Then you lop off the &latest=1 bit as well, to give you - F56952?thread=293626 as the referring link

Or alternatively, what I could have done is to just to cut and paste from your attempts to create a link in the posting above, which would have demonstrated it perfectly -- F128971?thread=291543

Thank you.

Who knew it could be so simple

You can also just link straight to the thread (without the forum number) using the T-number, eg <./>T291543</.>

(You do have to surround the T-number with the <./> thingies to make it a link, though ... see the first bullet in <./>NamedEntries</.>.)