Re: [Tiki-devel] Trackers; Avoiding silent duplication of "children" items when duplicating a single item

Bernard,

I'd vote for ItemLink option where cascade might be extended or a new 
option added based on the global "clone item" toggle in admin - we can 
hide that option unless cloning is allowed.

Regards,
Victor

On 9/20/22 9:56 AM, Bernard Sfez via TikiWiki-devel wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I though we have a bug in the “Duplicate tracker items” option, but it 
> seems this is a feature as that is in the code since 2012 and has been 
> improved for Cartography. (Thanks Victor for digging in the code 🙏)
>
> In short, when you duplicate and item that is used through an 
> item-link in another tracker, the action will _silently_ creates 
> children of this items.
> In detail, see : 
> https://dev.tiki.org/item8169-Trackers-Duplicate-a-trackeritem-on-an-item-used-in-another-tracker-will-create-duplication-for-all-the-items-where-the-original-item-is-used
>
> With user interface and trackers improvement added our capacity to 
> create more and more complex cases it look to me that this need some 
> revision.
> For example duplicating an item with children using a user-selector 
> field and auto-assign to creator the newly created item will be all 
> assign to this user.😳
>
> I promptly added some documentation and I would like to improve the 
> duplicate option but I wonder what other people think.
>
> I suggest we discuss in the comments of the tracker item 
> (https://dev.tiki.org/item8169-Trackers-Duplicate-a-trackeritem-on-an-item-used-in-another-tracker-will-create-duplication-for-all-the-items-where-the-original-item-is-used) 
> but if people prefer to discuss it here…
>
>
> Bernard
>
>
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