How to create multiple pages via script?

[phalassek]

Hello,

we have a customer area in our wiki, and I like to provide the following function in this area:
A text input field to enter the name of a new customer
A button starting the following action:
- Creating a sub page with the name of the new customer (so far not a problem)
- Creating several sub pages under the page of the customer following a specific structure. (Maybe copy the structure from a master folder, if creating pages via script without user interaction is not possible).

Is it possible to do this? How?

Best wishes,
Peter

[SteveB]

That's currently not possible due to a bug in wiki.create, which doesn't insert the multi-page template links.

[phalassek]

Is it planned to fix this bug?
In which release?

[Graham]

You could probably do this via the API using a scripting language.

[SteveB]

You can track the wiki.create issue here.

[phalassek]

Hi,

I've seen that you fixed the issue mentioned above. May you provide a small sample snippet for my original question, please?

Best wishes

Peter

[SteveB]

It was solved by mimicking the way that templates are inserted manually. When wiki.create loads the new page with the template inserted, you'll notice a set of links that have been inserted that correspond to the child pages. These links are identified at save time and used to generate the additional pages. This way, the child pages are only created if the parent page was created. If the user cancels, no pages are created.

[phalassek]

Ok, I found out, why it is not working for me... I ran updateWiki.sh and now I have version r12588.

Maybe this is a dumb question, but how do I get r12663 or newer, including the mentioned fix?

I'm using the vm-image.

[SteveB]

Once it is released, you'll be able to upgrade seamlessly.