SymLinking a section?

Hi there,

I have a bunch of image galleries. each gallery has sub pages.
I need to feature some of the galleries within another section of the web site.
Initially I thought I could just use symlinks, but then realised that this only works with single pages - it doesn't symlink the child pages.
is there any way to do this?
I know i can use a weblink instead, but then it takes the user away form the section they are in, which I wanted to avoid.

So I have:

gallery
- gallery 1
- gallery 2
- gallery 3
- etc

and I want this:

some-new-section
- gallery 1
- gallery 2
- gallery 3
- etc

I know I could manually symlink them all individually, but there are a lot of them, and if I add or remove on the original galleries, the symlinks won't stay in sync.

Somehow I need to symlink and include all child and grandchild pages?!

Is this even possible?

Thanks
Andy

You could write a utility snippet to create the symlinks, but that won't solve the problem of having to delete the symlinks when you remove an original gallery, and it would be a little tricky to get all the symlink fields correct.

I guess a plugin attached to OnDocFormDelete or OnEmptyTrash could look for matching symlinks and remove them as well.

Quote from: BobRay at Nov 14, 2017, 12:41 PM

You could write a utility snippet to create the symlinks, but that won't solve the problem of having to delete the symlinks when you remove an original gallery, and it would be a little tricky to get all the symlink fields correct.

I guess a plugin attached to OnDocFormDelete or OnEmptyTrash could look for matching symlinks and remove them as well.

Thanks - it's more the fact that when creating a symlink, it doesn't automatically create symlinks of all the children, but I understand why it doesn't. I was really looking for a way to create symlinks of a folder, rather than just an individual page - but I assume this isn't possible?

If you mean creating separate symlinks for all the children, AFAIK, it's not possible without some custom code.