Re: How to move a page?

At 17:56 07/12/2004, you wrote:
>P.S.: Does anyone know what the new option "remove old container" or 
>something like this does in the move process? The release.txt tells 
>something about
>better moving of pages... but what's better / why is it better / what does 
>it do?

The back-end of the move feature was a bit refactored in order to better 
manage versioning operations (most of the CVS do even not support move 
operation. this is quite complex and tricky to implement with versioning 
support (unmove feature)).

But the "remove old container" feature is just a new option. In fact when 
you move a page, you only move the page field value (the A HREF link if you 
want) and the sub-page (the pid). However you may perfectly move a page 
inserted in a more complex container (e.g. an adressbook container with one 
of the field being a page field) to another "lighter" container (a simple 
navigation container with only one page field and no other field). Before 
4.0.5 you were loosing the information contained in the old previous 
container after the move (automatic deletion of the old parent container 
even if it was containing perhaps other still useful information). Right 
now you have the choice of keeping the old parent container (for example 
the address entry in an adressbook list) while still being able to move the 
page elsewhere on the site.

However this operation still do not copy the other parent container value 
if the destination container is the same (you move a sub page of your 
adressbook entry on another addressbook template on the site. Then the 
destination container will not automatically copy the value of the previous 
parent container (e.g. name, addree, tel number,... fields)). In such a 
case you still have to use some Jahia event listeners in order to do it 
(cf. doc listing template where you can move a "doc_detail" to another 
similar doc_listing parent template without loosing the information in the 
parent container).

But for simple navigation operation with simple nav containers this is not 
really relevant.

Cheers
Stéphane