Question

I moved a bunch of wiki pages from one group to another.

Now granted I should have checked the links before & after ... but I didn't. Didn't think I'd have to. Apparently ... you do.

All the sub-pages (ie: Insert Link) pages are gone. Click on any of those links and you've now got an "article not found" page. We have a full database backup ... but that's a bunch of work to restore, suck out the pages, save them, re-create them, etc.

Any ideas before I just end up re-keying the whole thing? Or optionally save them as attachments for the next time, which is totally useless for searching. Or optionally just moving to something else that supports searching of attachments (eg Sharepoint).

We're using v7.1.10 on Linux (of some sorts).

thx

Answer 1

I'll lay out what we did. I know there are no "subpages" but ... that's the structure.

I created a wiki page in the root doc folder list. Whatever you call it, there is a directory tree of pages.

Then created a bunch more wiki pages ... you can right click somewhere, add a link, and it auto-adds a new link off the current wiki pages.

Then we wanted to re-org the tree of pages ... so the admin moved the page to a subfolder. How that happened I don't know, but it was moved.

Every wiki page that was created by the right click, add link page ... is now gone. It doesn't exist. That web link - it goes no where. Gone. Zero. Zilch.

-- Again, this is long since past and I asked the support team to close the ticket as (at this point) I don't care anymore. We're moving to FB 7.3 on Win at some point shortly and who knows what else this may cause, but we're hoping for a smooth transition.

Answer 2

That is what I would have thought. BUT ... maybe I'm wrong here.

What it used to be:

Wiki1

Wiki2

--> 2a

--> 2b

Wiki3

Wiki4

Wiki5 . .

WikiXX

WikiXY

Where 2a and 2b would be subpages/articles listed/created/linked off of Wiki2

We've reduced the # of main pages, and went slightly more structured. IE:

Wiki1

-->Wiki2

-->Wiki3

Wiki4

Wiki5

-->WikiXX

-->WikiXY

Where Wiki2/3 are now links off of Wiki1, and WikiXX and WikiXY are pages off of Wiki5.

In my case, I moved Wiki 2/3 (etc). Those initial 2a/2b pages are the ones now gone. The links stayed on the Wiki2 page, it did point to a previously valid article, but that article no longer exists.

It's not the end of the world. Just a lot more work to load a backup, export the pages to text, import the pages, etc.

Answer 3

Update: We can't find repro steps for this problem. If anyone else sees this issue come up, please email us and mention this post.

I'm still unclear on the exact repro steps since all articles have numbers (2a and 2b aren't valid) and there is no actual concept of a "subpages" only pages and links between them. Did you mean you moved the pages to a different Wiki (the top-level entity you see in the Wiki menu)? or just changed the link targets in the articles?

Answer 4

I am having to do something similar and wish to get your advice.

I accidentally created a wiki that should have been a page under another wiki. I actually want to take an entire wiki and make it a sub page of another wiki. What we currently have is:

W1 W2

And I want:

W1 -->W1 (as a page)

Any suggestions?