On 02/04/2010 06:02 PM, Guillaume Lerouge wrote: > Hi Daniel, > > On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 5:45 PM, Daniel Johansson<djohans...@haascnc.com>wrote: > >> >> Indeed, I just tried in 2.2M2 and it tells you the document exists. in 2.04 >> I >> did not delete the older post, it got overwritten so now I had 2 posts with >> the exact same title and content in the News category, it's still here in >> our wiki. And I actually updated the first post which updated both posts! >> They are identical, same date, title and content. >> >> The solution to tell user that document already exist is not very good. In >> time you may have hundreds of blog entries in one category, making it >> pretty >> hard to keep titles unique. In our case we wanted to use it to post what >> testing is to be done for the week. So each week you want to post an entry >> such as "Weekly testing". It'll be hard to come up with unique variants to >> that every week! >> > > You can modify the article creation form to add something like: > > $xwiki.getUniquePageName($space, $input) > > see > http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/DevGuide/API/xwiki%2Dcore%2D2.1.1%2Djavadoc.jar/index.htmlfor > details. > > Sergiu, I'm starting to think we could add this to most of the creation > forms to avoid duplicates, WDYT? > > I'm increasingly doing it for apps I write on my projects (almost all the > time now).
I'm not quite fond of this idea, but something more complex would work. If the page already exists, offer a few options: - link to the page so that the user can go to it and edit it instead of creating a new page - let the user type another page name - use getUniquePageName, which appends a number at the end - append the current date at the end -- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/ _______________________________________________ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
