SID-00807: Update a form field in multiple topics at once

Status:	Answered	TWiki version:	4.3.1	Perl version:	5.8
Category:		Server OS:	AIX 5.3	Last update:	16 years ago

Hello. I'm building a DR-management app on TWiki (I'll be happy to post it up here somewhere - Sandbox?). Each server is a topic. There are milestone goals for DR recovery, and they are form fields in those topics (target time, priority, actual completion time, etc.) Everything is going swimmingly, but they would like to be able to update a field on several topics at the same time (say, performing some action renders milestone 01 complete on 40 servers - they don't want to update 40 separate topics - time is short).

I think you get the idea. Do we have a facility for this?

Thanks, Aaron

-- AaronLWalker - 2010-04-14

Discussion and Answer

Hi - looks like you are looking at automation of your tasks..

Once your DR is complete - you want to run the script - which allows to select or go through the server list and select DR done/not done-at the end the script updates the TWiki topics (form fields)...

I suggest - try using CPAN:WWW::Mechanize module, write simple script

-- SopanShewale - 2010-04-14

Actually, something which (externally) looks like the BulkResetPassword is what I am looking for. List a series of topics (with the same form), be able to select topics and set a specified form field to value X for all of those topics.

I'm looking at how BulkResetPassword works.

-- AaronLWalker - 2010-04-18

You probably are looking for something like Plugins/GlobalReplacePlugin, which offers a powerful/dangerous way to update multiple topics via GUI. You probably need to write a custom plugin that offers the functionality you need in a save and intuitive way.

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