SID-01209: How to copy a topic with history

Status:	Answered	TWiki version:	5.0.0	Perl version:
Category:	CategoryEditing	Server OS:		Last update:	14 years ago

Hello

I work with the twiki 5.0.0. I wish to perform a copy of a topic with a different name. In addition, all versions of the topic copied shall be copied too. I have already read this thread about topic copies : HowToCopyATopic

I used the twiki edit scripts to perform the copy. But this script only performs a copy of the last revision of the orignal topic. How to perfom a copy of topic with their revisions ?

Thanks in advance

-- ChenalBenoit - 2011-06-22

Discussion and Answer

The templatetopic option to the edit and save script does not carry over the topic history. I was going to say that you need to write a plugin that uses the API to copy a topic with its history, but there is no TWikiFuncDotPm API call to do that. As a workaround you can create a small cgi script that copies files. Example shell commands:

cd /path/to/twiki
cp -p data/Myweb/OriginalTopic.txt data/Myweb/NewTopic.txt
cp -p data/Myweb/OriginalTopic.txt,v data/Myweb/NewTopic.txt,v
cp -pr pub/Myweb/OriginalTopic pub/Myweb/NewTopic

It is probably wise to check if the new topic exists, and return an error if it does.

-- PeterThoeny - 2011-06-22

Ok thanks I'll try .... Just another question and after that I will close the topic. I will copy the topic attachements. Can I do that by using this method too ?

-- ChenalBenoit - 2011-06-27

I updated above example to include also the attached files.

-- PeterThoeny - 2011-06-27

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