Rationale: when you do multiple changes to several topics (e.g. RenameTopic) you would like to select where the changes should be applied.

Possible implementation:

• change the search.tmpl search template to produce a form with a checkbox near each topic found.
• change the RenameTopic script to allow an input parameter listing which topics should be edited

-- AndreaSterbini - 20 Feb 2001

I wonder how people are doing massive renames; for example, suppose you're wanting to populate a new web with a bunch of content that exists elsewhere. I suppose you could use perl modules. To my dismay, simply moving them in the filesystem didn't work (even if there weren't links from other topics that would then point to no where). Then I tried calling the script rename with various arguments and that failed also. Any thoughts?

-- IanTegebo - 12 Mar 2006

What Andrea described in 2001 is implemented for a long time already.

I am not aware of an automated way of bulk renaming topics. You might be able to do that if you simulate the second step of the rename (after confirmation)

-- PeterThoeny - 13 Mar 2006