Changing user login and/or owner ID

Thursday 15 May 2008 7:37:16 am

Hi,

We need to perform two risky operations (or one of them at least):
a) change user login in a situation where user class object name pattern is based on user login (it appears in the
b) change the ownership of a number of objects from one existing user to another.

Are there any existing solutions, scripts, or at least tutorials for that? Any advice?

Thanks,
Piotrek

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Thursday 15 May 2008 8:36:48 am

You're kidding, right? Will that take care of all necessary references in the db? It can't be that easy ;)

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Thursday 15 May 2008 6:23:11 pm

I was just wondering about what documentation says:

http://ez.no/doc/ez_publish/technical_manual/4_0/concepts_and_basics/content_management/the_content_object
<i>The object's owner contains a reference to the user who initially created the object. At any time, an object can only be owned by one user. This reference is set by the system the first time the object is published. The ownership of an object can not be manipulated and will not change even if the owner the object is removed from the system.</i>

"At any time, an object can only be owned by one user" - this sounds promising, but:

"The ownership of an object can not be manipulated..." - now, I wonder if this was written only because there was no GUI tool for that operation, or for some more technical reason...

Why didn't the ownership change make it as a default functionality?

Are we sure creator ID will not be mistaken for owner ID anywhere in the code?

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Friday 16 May 2008 12:37:38 am

Thanks guys!

PS. Actually, I think it's good that these pieces of information are separated, because they represent different info. Object or version creator may be one thing, object current owner another one. Question remains: is better object ownership management in any eZ Publish roadmap? Will that ever make it to the core?

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