Publish article to multiple nodes?

Wednesday 04 May 2005 3:24:59 pm

I'm also interested in this... And also how to create more then one node at once?

For example if I want to create a node with some subnodes at once by filling only one form on the user site.

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Hubert Farnsworth

Wednesday 04 May 2005 5:08:14 pm

Hi Joanie

You basically modify the edit templates associated with placement.

See
design/standard/templates/content/edit_placement.tpl

There is a comment at the top of this template that give a hint/guide at how this is done.

The form variables to look at are
SetPlacementNodeIDArray
SetRemoteIDOrderMap
SetRemoteIDFieldMap

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Wednesday 04 May 2005 11:22:06 pm

What I hear Bruce saying is this ...

To publish to multiple locations (during creation / instantiation of the content object) you must create a template override of the file:

design/standard/templates/content/edit_placement.tpl

Once you have created a template override of the file you can customize it to contain the information needed to publish a single content object (say: article) to multiple locations (say: folders).

The relevant variables to customize are:

SetPlacementNodeIDArray
SetRemoteIDOrderMap
SetRemoteIDFieldMap

You will want to use at least one of these variables (duplicate the form entries to build an array using hidden form fields) to achieve your multi-location-placement-on-content-object-creation ...

<input type="hidden" name="SetPlacementNodeIDArray[]" value="{$Node:item.parent_node}" />
<input type="hidden" name="SetPlacementNodeIDArray[]" value="{$altParentNode}" />

Ok so I have to tell you that there is a really good chance that you will need a combination of the above variables to be set via html hidden form fields, instead of just any one variable.

If you read the source code you will see a section that will exit if all the variables are not defined.

With that said I don't entirely understand what values are expected / required for : SetRemoteIDOrderMap, SetRemoteIDFieldMap ....

<i>References:
http://www.ez.no/community/forum/setup_design/problem_adding_content_using_own_edittpl
http://pubsvn.ez.no/viewcvs/ezp/stable/3.5/kernel/content/node_edit.php?rev=10652&view=log
http://pubsvn.ez.no/websvn/filedetails.php?repname=nextgen&path=%2Fstable%2F3.5%2Fkernel%2Fcontent%2Fnode_edit.php&rev=0&sc=1
http://pubsvn.ez.no/viewcvs/ezp/stable/3.5/kernel/content/node_edit.php?view=markup
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=SetPlacementNodeIDArray&btnG=Google+Search
</i>

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Thursday 05 May 2005 12:15:46 am

Good follow up question,

Though, <i>honestly</i> I still think that new questions are best suited in a new forum thread that you link to from here instead of asking directly here.

This makes is simpler to search for solutions by name rather than reading a really really long thread about 2 - 4 questions.

Still that said, I'll throw down my 2cents even if it makes not sense.

I think this is possible, I don't know how or why but I do ...

<i>waiting for them to prove me wrong ...</i>

My first guess would be a template that had the form fields for not just 1 but (at least) 2 sets of the form fields for each object on the same submit form.

I would think that the kernel can support this with the use of a specific feature it provides, which one I don't know.

The second thought I have is if it truly isn't possible out of the box it wouldn't take too long to build an extension to support the looping over your multi-object / overloaded / html form fields as arrays form information submitted to eZ publish and insert each object one at a time from the same form..

If you need to keep talking about this 2nd question, please create a new thread.

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Thursday 05 May 2005 4:05:03 am

Joanie,

A lot of (comfortable) php developers often hold / reiterate that opinion.

At times of frustration I would probabilly breakdown and say the same thing.

Like many things with eZ publish you must learn to live inside a framework designed to abstract any single implementation into a flexible, customizable collection of layers of features which are intentionally broken up into smaller pieces than the average php applications / frameworks.

An extension could be developed to provide eZ publish content / articles to another php application. On second thought it might be simpler to provide an eZ publish rss feed of your content for another php application to reuse ?

eZ publish, in the end, requires an investment of time, reading, learning, practice (repeat 7x) for it's successful mastery ... but in most cases it's an investment over time; not all at once.

I guess the question is ... <i>is eZ publish worth the investment to you ?</i>

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Friday 20 May 2005 5:42:02 pm

I tried to do something with this but encountered some difficulties. See:

http://www.ez.no/community/forum/setup_design/publish_article_to_multiple_nodes_2

The object can be published to multiple nodes, but I couldn't find out how to do it using only one form...

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Hubert Farnsworth

Monday 23 May 2005 2:43:25 pm

I hope so too. But seeing the way eZ works, and since no one answered this question for a long time I doubt it can be done using only one form...

But I still hope someone proves me wrong... :)

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Hubert Farnsworth

Tuesday 14 June 2005 10:42:19 am

Just an update here --
I figured out that to make my rss feeds work, I don't need to publish to multiple nodes -- I just created a content structure like this --
-UserGroupA
--user1
--user2
--user3 etc...

And then changed the fetch function in the ezrssexportitem.tpl to go 2 levels deep --
and bing-bang!! solved the problem.

Don't want to tell you all how long I have been banging my head over this one.
Maybe this will help somebody else.......