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Stefan Beyer 3 posts 23 karma points

Apr 08, 2013 @ 08:41

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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

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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

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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
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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

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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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