Question

Hi Everybody,

Is it possible to rename a topic, using the "rename" script, without orphaning the children of the re-named topic? As far as I can tell, the metadata pointing to a parent topic doesn't get updated in child topics when a parent topic is renamed.

Maybe it's possible to do this without using the rename script, although the rename script is certainly convenient.

Thank you, Tom Davey

Environment

-- TomDavey - 04 Mar 2007

Answer

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Hmm, when a parent topic is renamed, all children's parent should be fixed (unless topics are unchecked during rename). This is a bug if not.

Although not documented, you can move topics using the shell. Simply move topic data (data/Myweb/MyTopic.txt, data/Myweb/MyTopic.txt,v) and attachment data (pub/Myweb/MyTopic/myfile.txt, pub/Myweb/MyTopic/myfile.txt,v if any.) This will not fix any backlinks though. Is useful if you move a set of topics to a different web, or even a different TWiki installation.

-- PeterThoeny - 05 Mar 2007