Create-Child to create directory structure

If i understand you correctly then you can do this using space/global templates, eg:

Create a template called 'grandchild' which contains:

{create-child:GreatGrandChild Level3|template=greatgrandchild|render=true}

Create a template called 'child' which contains:

{create-child:GrandChild Level2|template=grandchild|render=true}

Then for your root level you will use:

{create-child:Child Level1|template=child|render=true}

What happens is that at the root level, the first create-child is executed, it loads the child's content from the 'child' template, this template is then rendered (without being displayed), this causes the create-child in the child-template to be executed, which in turn generates the GrandChild page ... rinse & repeat.

This should result in the following structure:

• Parent's sibling
• Parent's sibling
• Parent
  • Child
    • GrandChild
      • GreatGrandChild
• Parent's sibling
• Parent's sibling
• Parent's sibling

Hi,

I tried using this in the default space content so that creating a space would create two orphan pages using pages from an existing space as templates. Those two pages were to create further children for themselves, again using pages from an existing space as templates.

The first two pages were created, but under the new space home page, not as orphans. The new pages had no content, so the template functionality didn't seem to work. Since the template pages with their additional create-child-macros were not used, no further pages were created.

Confluence 3.0.2.

Ville

OK so it seems I was doing some very nasty things in my template to the Confluence database which is why I was seeing errors.

The crux of my template went something like this....

parent Template

{report-on:injected=true}
{create-child:CHILD - %content:title%|template=child|render=true}
{report-on}

child Template

{report-on:injected=true}
{create-child:GRANDCHILD - %content:parent > content:title%|template=grandchild|render=true}
{report-on}

grandchild Template

{report-on:injected=true}
{create-child:GREATGRANDCHILD - %content:parent > content:parent > content:title%|template=greatgrandchild|render=true}
{report-on}

The report must have been doing something because it created a page without a title which then corrupted the database.

This sort of puts an end to my directory strucutre as I need to create multiple project directories in the one space. I was going to differentiate each of the pages through the use of the project title page.

I may end up looking at a copy page (and all children) option which gives you the option to copy a heap of pages and modify their names based on certain inputs. I haven't used this before but I think it looks like the next option.

Thanks Alain for your help with this one.

One more question .....
I have got my directory structure working now with Create Child.
I have created my templates as Global Templates but I have found that child templates do not render until the page is opened. All the pages in the first template render ok, but no pages underneath the parent template render until you open the page.

This is my code to the parent template.

{report-block}
{local-reporter:page:creation date}
{date-filter:creation date|beforeValue=-60s|format=hh:mm:ss dd MMM, yyyy}
{local-reporter}
{report-body}
{replace-and-render} {replace-body} 
{create-child:Child 1 - %title%|parent=@self|template=child 1 template|render=true} 
{create-child:Child 2 - %title%|parent=@self|template=child 2 template|render=true} 
{replace-body} {replace-item:%title%} {report-info:report:root content > page:title} {replace-item} {replace-and-render}
{report-body}
{report-block}

This is my code to the child 1 template.

This is the Child 1 page

{report-block}
{local-reporter:page:creation date}
{date-filter:creation date|beforeValue=-60s|format=hh:mm:ss dd MMM, yyyy}
{local-reporter}
{report-body}
{replace-and-render} {replace-body} 
{create-child:Grandchild 1 - %title%|parent=@self|render=true} 
{replace-body}
{replace-item:%title%} {report-info:report:root content > page:parent > page:title} {replace-item} {replace-and-render}
{report-body}
{report-block}

In the example above, the parent page successfully has Child 1 and Child 2 created, but the Grandchild 1 page is not created under neath Child 1 until Child 1 is accessed.

This issue does not occur when the templates are setup as Space Templates.

Is this how it is suppose to work or is this a bug with global templates?