Higher Logic Vanilla’s built-in Change Author feature allows appropriately permissioned users to change the author of discussions, questions, polls, and ideas.
NOTE: You cannot change the author of comments or answers.
Permissions
To change a post’s author, a user’s role must have:
- Community > Manage
- Discussions > Edit for the category containing the post
If the category uses custom permissions, ensure that Discussions > Edit is enabled for the role in that category.
Where Change Author is available
- Custom post layouts: Change Author is available from the post itself and the Recent Discussions list.
- Legacy post layouts: Change Author is available from the Recent Discussions list, but not from the post itself.
Change a post’s author
- Open the post’s (...) menu from an available location and select Change Author.
- In the dialog, select the new author from the Author dropdown.
- Click Save.