Convert document to weblink?

I decided that a weblink rather than a document would be better for a number of documents so I am looking for a way to convert the existing docs to weblinks. By looking ad the db it looks like the only real difference is that the ’type’ is set to ’reference’ rather than ’document’ in the site_content table. And the URL (or doc id) go into the content field.

Is this all there is to it or am I over optimistic about the simplicity?

Well, I suppose it could be done that way... but weblinks also have no template, and lack a few other fields (take a look at the weblink editing pane). Also, the content needs to be either a valid URL, or just a document ID if you’re linking to internal MODx documents.

http://www.sottwell.com/article-weblinks.html

but weblinks also have no template

That’s interesting and I have read that before, but it seems that you can assign a template to it and it will give you access to those template variables. Not sure how this reflects in the front end (specially with Ditto since I plan on using some TV values of a weblink).

Actually that’s why I dod not use weblinks in the first place, since I needed tvs for custom info so I opted to make a document. But now I am under the impresion that you can assign a template and template variables which would fit my purpose well.

Am I mistaken in believing that I can assign a template and TVs to a weblink?

Well, so you can! I don’t remember that those fields were available in the weblinks editing pane before... maybe I’m just losing it.

You can use simple mysql query where 2,4,6... list of docs to change type.

You can use another condition insteed "id IN (2,4,6,7,8)"

id > 30 AND id < 45
parent = PARENT_ID
etc.

Yep, as simple as that, and a quick refresh of the site cache. But not being able to do this in the manager is definitely something I consider an annoyance, and we’ll be designing ways to "switch" the "type" of document from one to another in 0.9.7.