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  • Stefan Beyer 3 posts 23 karma points
    Apr 08, 2013 @ 08:41
    Stefan Beyer
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    Document.Copy() without copying child documents

    Let's assume we have a simple structure for our content, e.g.: 

    home
    --products
    ----product 1
    ----product 2
    --services
    --about us
    --...

     

    Trying to copy "home" using Document.Copy() works fine, but also copies all child documents, which is something I do not want. Is there any way to "ignore" childen when copying?

    I would have expected some optional parameter for Document.Copy() that enables / disables recursion, but there seems to be none.

    Umbraco 4.11

     

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  • Sahan Rodrigo 25 posts 97 karma points
    Apr 08, 2013 @ 10:15
    Sahan Rodrigo
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    Hi Stefan,

    I had the same issue few months back, coudn't able to find any solution yet, always had to delete children of newly created document. 

     

    if (newDoc.ChildCount > 0)

     {

            foreach (var childDocs in newDoc.Children)

            {

                         childDocs.delete(true);

             }

      }

    It would be nice if anyone from forum can help on this.

    Thanks

    Sahan

     

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  • Stefan Beyer 3 posts 23 karma points
    Apr 08, 2013 @ 10:31
    Stefan Beyer
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    Hello Sahan

    yes, his making-a-mess-and-cleaning-up-again-in-two-easy-steps ;-)), came to my mind, too. But: If I want to copy Home AND products (one level below Home) but I do not want to copy "services" and "about us", this approach is gettings *really* messy ...

    It would be nice if anyone from forum can help on this!

    Stefan

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  • Stefan Beyer 3 posts 23 karma points
    Apr 29, 2013 @ 09:22
    Stefan Beyer
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    Seems as if there is nobody out there to help ... ?

     

    Ok, what I did is ... : 

     

    - Got the sourcecode for Umbraco 4.11...

     

    - Went to umbraco.cms.businesslogic.web.Document

     

    - introduced a 4th paramter for Copy(): bool CopyChildren 

    public Document Copy(int CopyTo, User u, bool RelateToOrignal, bool CopyChildren) { ... }

     

    - Somewhere at the end of the method there is a recursive call to copy all children. Using the new paramter CopyChildren changed this fragment as follows: 

    if (CopyChildren) { 
      (...)
      d.Copy(newDoc.Id, u, RelateToOrignal, true);
      (...)
    }

     

    - introduced a new method with the signature of the "old" Copy-method so that I don't break any existing functionality / tests: 

    public Document Copy(int CopyTo, User u, bool RelateToOrignal) {
      return this.Copy(CopyTo, u, RelateToOrignal, true);
    }
    This is it.
    Standard behaviour for Document.Copy() copies all child documents, a new method with a 4th paramter which specifies, if child documents should be copied, is also available so that rare cases like mine can also be implemented.
    I have no idea how to submit this code back to the umbraco-repository, but I will try to find out ...

     

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  • CASTELLI 23 posts 76 karma points
    Sep 16, 2013 @ 16:29
    CASTELLI
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    Hi,

    I have the same problem and applied the solution proposed above, except that I'm using Umbraco V6.

    More détails in http://our.umbraco.org/forum/developers/extending-umbraco/44763-using-DocumentCopy-to-move-a-page-keeping-the-tree-structure

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