Change object content class?

Tuesday 02 January 2007 6:30:01 am

I've encountered this desire before.

If I was to do it again I might write a script to do this quickly.

If the customer is paying write a module ;)

//kracker

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Thursday 04 January 2007 5:09:52 am

I would suggest a script that extracts the information from one object and creates a new object based on this information. This seems to me the easiest and cleanest approach. The downside is of course that all objects get new ID's. But if this is a problem, you might have to tinker with the database itself.

Friday 12 January 2007 11:40:38 pm

Hi Kristof, ez guru:-)

Big thanx!

Best regards,
S.

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Tuesday 16 January 2007 10:42:29 am

My contribution in its current state is now available at http://ez.no/community/contribs/applications/extract_object_part (sorry for the delay).

Bartek, maybe we can join forces?

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Tuesday 16 January 2007 11:59:38 am

Hi,

(I haven't researched much).

Both your solutions seem to recreate new objects. Would it be possible to keep the same object but change the attributes id (to transfer each attribute) and class id (for the object) directly instead ?

Otherwise, is it possible with one of your contrib to transform a folder into an article or the other way around ? (most of my clients don't get the difference anyway).

Another related question, about changing the type of one attribute. Say that I want to transform one attribute from date to date time (or birthday or...). Would it be possible ?

Thanks for your contribution(s)

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Tuesday 16 January 2007 11:07:10 pm

@Xavier

Both your solutions seem to recreate new objects. Would it be possible to keep the same object but change the attributes id (to transfer each attribute) and class id (for the object) directly instead ?

It should be possible with some hocus pocus :-) I think it would be easy to add this to Bartek's extension, since it allows to do the mapping of different attributes manually. In my extension the attribute identifiers need to match.

The initial goal of my script was to extract certain portions of an object to another object, because the initial content class design wasn't right and one class had to be split up into two (and its existing content object instances too).

Another related question, about changing the type of one attribute. Say that I want to transform one attribute from date to date time (or birthday or...). Would it be possible ?

You can use the datatypes extension for that. Still need to commit some new stuff though. If you want I can help you with a plugin for specific datatypes.

@ Bartek
Adding support for ezuser is not that difficult, I know how to do it but I didn't have the time yet to write it.

In fact my extension is a little bit more advenced

I like your extension ;-) But both extensions have their strengths and their weaknesses, it just depends on what you need them for.

For those who would like to test Bartek's extension: just enable it and start with /changeclass/select_class/[node_id]

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Monday 22 January 2007 3:54:09 am

See Kristof reply at this question a few days ago:

You can use the datatypes extension for that. Still need to commit some new stuff though. If you want I can help you with a plugin for specific datatypes.

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Thursday 01 February 2007 2:28:59 pm

Sounds great !

Could you put it on pubsvn ? not that I think it will the code soon, but ;)

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