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tom.ash at newint

Sep 26, 2011, 8:15 AM

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Bulk editing stories in Bricolage

Hi,

Is there a way to bulk edit stories in Bricolage? Hopefully an example will make what I'm after clearer:

We need to re-title a lot of stories in our database, and for these stories have a list of their URIs, their current titles, and their desired new titles. Is there a quicker way to do this than doing the following for each story (which takes a while when you have hundreds of stories):

1. Searching for the URI in 'Find stories'
2. Checking out the story
3. Changing the title
4. Checking in and publishing the story

Ideally the answer would let a non-technical user to make these bulk edits, but all answers are gratefully received. I've built a few scripts which do something like this with bric_soap but they're not ideal...

Thanks,
Tom

david at kineticode

Sep 26, 2011, 10:58 PM

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Re: Bulk editing stories in Bricolage [In reply to]

On Sep 26, 2011, at 8:15 AM, Tom Ash wrote:

> Ideally the answer would let a non-technical user to make these bulk edits, but all answers are gratefully received. I've built a few scripts which do something like this with bric_soap but they're not ideal...

Alas, that's the only way to do it currently. You cannot bulk edit stories in the Bricolage UI. Sorry about that.

Best,

David

ps at phillipadsmith

Sep 27, 2011, 5:40 PM

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Re: Bulk editing stories in Bricolage [In reply to]

On 2011-09-27, at 7:58 AM, David E. Wheeler wrote:

> On Sep 26, 2011, at 8:15 AM, Tom Ash wrote:
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>> Ideally the answer would let a non-technical user to make these bulk edits, but all answers are gratefully received. I've built a few scripts which do something like this with bric_soap but they're not ideal...
>
> Alas, that's the only way to do it currently. You cannot bulk edit stories in the Bricolage UI. Sorry about that.

There was once a script developed that would extract the main story attributes from Bricolage (using SOAP, IIRC) and would load them into a spreadsheet. From there, they could be edited and re-submitted to the script, which would update the stories.

These days, I would probably just pull the data out into a 'grid control' UI component (http://dhtmlx.com/docs/products/dhtmlxGrid/index.shtml ) and handle the edits as they happen, running the soap commands in the background to save & publish the story, and pushing errors back to the UI.

If you look at Bricolite, that's basically what it's doing: https://github.com/gregheo/bricolite

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tom.ash at newint

Sep 28, 2011, 1:47 AM

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Re: Bulk editing stories in Bricolage [In reply to]

On 28 Sep 2011, at 01:40, Phillip Smith wrote:

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> On 2011-09-27, at 7:58 AM, David E. Wheeler wrote:
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>> On Sep 26, 2011, at 8:15 AM, Tom Ash wrote:
>>
>>> Ideally the answer would let a non-technical user to make these bulk edits, but all answers are gratefully received. I've built a few scripts which do something like this with bric_soap but they're not ideal...
>>
>> Alas, that's the only way to do it currently. You cannot bulk edit stories in the Bricolage UI. Sorry about that.
>
> There was once a script developed that would extract the main story attributes from Bricolage (using SOAP, IIRC) and would load them into a spreadsheet. From there, they could be edited and re-submitted to the script, which would update the stories.

Thanks David and Phillip - could you point me to this script, if it'd still work?

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