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

I went through and created fresh local templates for parent, child, grandchild and greatgrandchild.
Initially I got very strange results where the child page was referencing an existing page. I don't know and sort of don't care why this was happening - I renamed the offending page that was there to something else and retested.

This time it all worked as it should. My implementation of this was a little different as I appended the title of the parent page to the end of child, grandchild and greatgrandchild but I haven't been able to test if I can get this to work yet as my Confluence implementations (both LIVE and TEST )are playing up with the create-child macro. The teamples and throwing Null-Pointers and my pages are dying if I use create-child in them.

As soon as I have this issue sorted I will see if I can create my directory structure with the appended parent name in the title of all descendent pages.

Thanks for the help Alain - I'll let you know how this works out and if I get it working I will post up the code so others might be able to use it in the future.

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.