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-- AndyGlew - 25 Mar 2006

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Over in ThumbnailsPluginDev, the subject of simpler re-parenting had come up (Feb 2006) using visual topic drag-and-drop. Your solution seems to be much easier to implement in the short term.

-- PankajPant - 20 Mar 2006

Q: in the reparenting form obtained via "More", e.g. http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/oops/Plugins/EditTopicTreeStructure?template=oopsmore&param1=1.3&param2=1.3

we are asked to set change the parent via

    Set new topic parent:
    • Step 1: Select topic parent:
    • Step 2: Continue to EDIT and save to activate the new parent
Q: does anyone know why step 2 is necessary, or how to avoid Step 2?

If I can avoid the need to edit and save, I can create a very simple plugin to reparent a whole slew of pages at the same time:

  • dump the files in a list (or a tree list)
  • place a pulldown with the parent beside eah file
  • change parenthood for a whole slew of files via a pulldown on each of their lines
  • use a single button to commit all of the reparenting
Having to edit/save each page individually would be too annoying.

-- AndyGlew - 23 Mar 2006

legacy is the only reason. the save script is now powerful enough to do this without going through edit and preview. i noted this on UseLessStepsToReparentATopic, but no one (including myself) has got around to it.

-- WillNorris - 23 Mar 2006

Thanks, Will. Do I understand you correctly - SaveContentWithoutEdit is now implemented, so the reparenting change would be just a change to the form, arranging different parameters?

Cool. I've got to figure out how to do this.

-- AndyGlew - 23 Mar 2006

well, i can't comment on the huge topic that is SaveContentWithoutEdit; however, i can point you at TWikiScripts#save

-- WillNorris - 23 Mar 2006

Andy, could you post what you find here? I would like to implement this on our TWiki too.

Thanks.

-- PankajPant - 23 Mar 2006

Thank-you, WillNorris, a light finally came on in my dim skull:

doing something like

https://twiki.pdx.intel.com/archfut/bin/save/Test/TestPage?topicparent=foo

sets the parent to foo.

Now all I have to do is generate forms that creates the appropriate URL... multiple such forms in a file.

-- AndyGlew - 24 Mar 2006

Here is a TestPage that I created in my Test web that gets most of the way there: 

   * TestPage <form name="main" action="%SCRIPTURLPATH{"save"}%/%WEB%/TestPage"><input type="hidden" name="t" value="%GMTIME{"$epoch"}%" /><select name="topicparent" size="1">        <option value="none">none (remove topic parent)</option>        %TOPICLIST{"<option value=$qname>$name</option>" separator=" "}%        </select>      <input type="submit" class="twikiSubmit" value="Reparent" />      <input type="hidden" name="t" value="%SERVERTIME{$year$mo$day$hour$min$sec}%" /></form>

   * TestPage2 <form name="main" action="%SCRIPTURLPATH{"save"}%/%WEB%/TestPage2"><input type="hidden" name="t" value="%GMTIME{"$epoch"}%" />        <select name="topicparent" size="1">        <option value="none">none (remove topic parent)</option>        %TOPICLIST{"<option value=$qname>$name</option>" separator=" "}%        </select>      <input type="submit" class="twikiSubmit" value="Reparent" />      <input type="hidden" name="t" value="%SERVERTIME{$year$mo$day$hour$min$sec}%" /></form>

%TREEVIEW%

TestPage renames itself nicely.

TestPage2 renames itself, but switches to viewing that page. I want to remain at the page that has the renaming widgets.

Cool!

I have to run, but maybe tonight... posting this to share with PankajPant

-- AndyGlew - 24 Mar 2006

I haven't gotten the ability to reparent a page other than the current page, returning to the current page, working - it always returns to viewing the page that was reparented - but adding the following to WebLeftBar is a nice first step. It makes it a lot easier to reparent the current page. 

   * <form name="main" action="%SCRIPTURLPATH{"save"}%/%WEB%/%TOPIC%">     <input type="submit" class="twikiSubmit" value="Reparent" />      <input type="hidden" name="t" value="%GMTIME{"$epoch"}%" /><select name="topicparent" size="1">        <option value="none">none (remove topic parent)</option>        %TOPICLIST{"<option value=$qname>$name</option>" separator=" "}%        </select> <input type="hidden" name="t" value="%SERVERTIME{$year$mo$day$hour$min$sec}%" /></form>

Try it... although it will not work here on twiki.org, unless you have privileges I do not.