Microsoft Content Management Server - any sensible way to tidy up connected postings?

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any sensible way to tidy up connected postings?

Utunga

2007-02-16, 1:17 am

Hello Stefan, All,

Our MCMS databse is getting very large and for various reasons we
thought to tidy things up a bit and remove a lot of our connected
postings (which would also allow us to remove various unneeded
channels which all have postings connected to postings elsewhere).

However - if I use the API to delete a connected posting, I assume
that any links that point to that connected posting will simply stop
working. Is that right?

Is there any way that I can delete a connected posting but fix any
links already existing to point instead to one of the other connected
postings?

Alternatively / equivalently is there some sort of "MergePosting"
method that can be applied to merge multiple connected postings down
to one posting and then update all links to point to that one posting?

Any help greatly appreciated.

[ Yes we are considering moving the whole thing to Office 2007, which
would make this kind of tidy up not required, but that project is
further down the line, we need to do something more urgently, now. ]

Thanks,

Miles

Stefan Goßner [MSFT]

2007-02-16, 7:16 am

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Hi Miles,

you would need to do this manually.

E.g. be running a two pass program to do this.
First pass: enumerate all postings, write a list of all postings guids of
postings which have connected postings including the list of GUIDs of the
connected postings.
Also enumerate all placeholder content in unpublished mode and extract all
URLs.

Then decide which postings to delete.
The second pass would have to adjust the placeholders which hold references
to the postings that should be deleted and needs to replace them with the
URLs to the connected postings which will not be deleted.

Cheers,
Stefan

"Utunga" <utunga@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hello Stefan, All,
>
> Our MCMS databse is getting very large and for various reasons we
> thought to tidy things up a bit and remove a lot of our connected
> postings (which would also allow us to remove various unneeded
> channels which all have postings connected to postings elsewhere).
>
> However - if I use the API to delete a connected posting, I assume
> that any links that point to that connected posting will simply stop
> working. Is that right?
>
> Is there any way that I can delete a connected posting but fix any
> links already existing to point instead to one of the other connected
> postings?
>
> Alternatively / equivalently is there some sort of "MergePosting"
> method that can be applied to merge multiple connected postings down
> to one posting and then update all links to point to that one posting?
>
> Any help greatly appreciated.
>
> [ Yes we are considering moving the whole thing to Office 2007, which
> would make this kind of tidy up not required, but that project is
> further down the line, we need to do something more urgently, now. ]
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Miles
>