[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #41907: WordPress-Importer Assign all entries to one 'local' user

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#41907: WordPress-Importer Assign all entries to one 'local' user
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 Reporter:  xkon         |      Owner:
     Type:  enhancement  |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal       |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Import       |    Version:
 Severity:  normal       |   Keywords:
  Focuses:  ui           |
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 I've only recently started using the Import tool so I don't know if this
 is something that was purposely done this way or mentioned before but here
 goes.

 I had to import some data while working on the HelpHub dev environment and
 it actually has quite a long list of users so I had to re-assign everyone
 to my admin to go forth.

 That being said and with my poor knowledge of the importer ( i don't know
 if something exists already ) I didn't find any buttons to being able to
 assign all Authors into an existing one for starters and then change some
 fields if needed respectively as well.

 So I'd like to propose this as an enhancement as some websites might need
 to Import with many users and probably there are many people out there who
 are not comfortable on changing things through their database.

 This .gif is a simple mockup of what I thought could be done. As you'll
 see it's just an extra select box and a little jQuery but it saves a lot
 of time if the authors are way too many to simply point+click on each of
 them. This patch was something simple so I can ease my repetitive imports
 it was not meant to be 100% clean and safe etc.

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