How to change object names if object name pattern was cha...

Thursday 28 December 2006 7:52:45 am

It was a necessity to change object name pattern for a class. Howewer it didn't change names of my objects.
I can change object names only after resaving them: just open and send for publish.
But it is not possible to manually resave about 1 thousand objects.

I tried updateniceurls.php script - it didn't help.
I've emptied ezurlalias table and run updateniceurls.php again. It works.

I had no custom url translation but obviously i'd loose all url translations after such procedure.
How to do in a right way? How to update object names according to changed object name pattern.

Saturday 30 December 2006 6:21:04 am

Thank you very much, Kristof.
It is so simple and so great.

BTW, it is not possible to download your datatypes extension from Contributions section. I've download it from pubsn. Is it still in alpha?

Tuesday 11 December 2007 8:49:39 am

Hi - I've added a new attribute 'relation' to the user class, and updated the "object name pattern" to <first_name> <last_name>: <relation>. The relation attribute (customer, partner etc.) is determined at registration time based on the domain name in 'mailid'. By using the following code:

// store in attribute
$relation = $dataMap['relation'];
$relation->setAttribute( 'data_text', $usergroupName );
$relation->sync();

i get the 'relation' attribute updated allright. But like the original post, the full name does not show through, unless the user is "re-published". Adding the code:

// update object to update object content name
$class =& $object->contentClass();
$object->setName( $class->contentObjectName( $object ) );
$object->store();
unset( $class );

did not help. Any other way of updating the user name without running the CLI??