Removing articles snippet and restoring posts

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x0149128 Reply #1, 13 years, 5 months ago

I tested out articles, and copied some posts that I had already created to the articles container.

These posts are still in the system somewhere, but do not showup in articles or in the resource tree.

How can I restore these?

Secondly how do I completely remove articles? It's failing on being unable to locate Quip. Probably because I removed the old version that articles was using and installed the newest version.

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donshakespeare Reply #2, 13 years, 5 months ago

How did you copy these posts to Articles? Dragged and dropped?

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x0149128 Reply #3, 13 years, 5 months ago

I set Articles as their container from within each of the posts.

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donshakespeare Reply #4, 13 years, 5 months ago

Okay...they are not going to be visible any longer because by default Articles hides all its children in the Resource Tree. And since you did not create these resources with Articles, or import them properly into Articles they are not true Articles resources; that's the reason you can't see them even when you open the Articles Container.

If you knew their id number you could manually edit them, in order to change their parent.

yoursite.com/manager/?a=30&id=378

Or, what I do: install the Addon called batcher, this would certainly save your life now or someday.
Batch can view all resources no matter where, even if they hide in hell.

Go to the top menu in Manager / Components / Batcher .... look for all the lost / hidden resources; tick them, right-click, change parent.

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BobRay Reply #5, 13 years, 5 months ago

You could also (and probably should) go into the modx_site_content table PhpMyAdmin. Sort by class_key. That should bring them to the top. For all of them, change the class_key to modDocument and the show_in_tree field to 1.

Or, this utility snippet might do it:

<?php
/* UnArticle Snippet */
$count = 0;
$docs = $modx->getCollection('modResource', array('class_key' => 'Article'));

foreach ($docs as  $doc) {

    $doc->set('class_key', 'modDocument');
    $doc->set('show_in_tree', 1);
    if ($doc->save()) {
      $count++;
    }

return 'Modified ' . $count . ' Articles';
}

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x0149128 Reply #6, 13 years, 5 months ago

Thanks.

I decided that Articles is more trouble than it's worth. I've restored an old backup instead.

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jpdevries Reply #7, 13 years, 5 months ago

Quote from: x0149128 at May 01, 2013, 03:24 PM

Thanks.

I decided that Articles is more trouble than it's worth. I've restored an old backup instead.

Definitely has drawbacks and short comings. I've worked on addressing a few things, like making Articles less obsessed with clearing the cache in a recent pull requests that is awaiting approval.

If there are any particular complaints or additional feedback you have, I'd love to take them into account.

jpdevries