SID-00954: Topic as template in another topic

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I want to use a topic as a template for another topic. This is a overly simplified problem statement.

The template topic has an arbitrary number of child topics. The template may have any number of child topics, 1 to 999+ child topics.

Say the mother topic is called Mother0001. And all the child topics are called Mother0001Child0001, Mother0001Child0002 etc.

I want use Mother0001 as template for Mother0002 and Mother0001Child0001 as template for Mother0002Child0001 etc.

I tried using %TOPICCREATE{}% in the following manner: %TOPICCREATE{template="Mother0001" topic="MotherAUTOINC0001?"}% but that doesn't work. Seems like the AUTOINC part doesn't work.

To create the child topics I tried the following:

<verbatim> %SEARCH{ "Mother0001Child*" web="%WEB%" excludetopic="" scope="topic" type="regex" order="topic" limit="1" nonoise="on" nototal="on" format="$percntTOPICCREATE{template=\"$dollartopic\" topic=\"Mother0002$dollartopic\" }$percnt"}% </verbatim>

But that doesn't work either.

Any ideas? or am i barking up the wrong tree?

-- HenroRitchie - 2010-08-26

Discussion and Answer

After thinking about it a trying to figure out what is going wrong I realized that the %TOPICCREATE{}% var is removed once the topic is saved, so I cannot re-use it. Any Idea how to workaround it?

-- HenroRitchie - 2010-08-28

An update - I decided to use the following code to try and create multiple topics at once.

%FOR{"count" start="1" stop="50" step="1"}%

• Set NAME = TopicNo$count

This still doesn't work and after examining the %TOPICCREATE% perl module i I saw there is no provision for META data which is what I need.

How would I go about fixing this problem?

-- HenroRitchie - 2010-08-28

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