Deleting Parent Pages

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9/1/2009 3:48:45 AM
kevneedham
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Deleting Parent Pages

Hi Joe,

We had an interesting support call on Friday - one of our users had deleted a parent page and all of the child pages of that paretn page were then displayed in the main menu - i.e. they were deemed root level pages. I tried it out on the demo site and the same thing occurred.

To recreate:

1. create a page
2. create another page as a child of first page
3. delete first page

I'm not sure if this is expected behaviour, but it certainly surprised us.

Can you advise please if this is a bug, or whether we should re-educate our users.

Many thanks,
Kevin

9/1/2009 6:24:32 AM
Joe Audette
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Re: Deleting Parent Pages

Hi Kevin,

Its not a bug. The only thing that differentiates a root level page is that it has a parentid of -1 and parentguid of guid.empty.

If a parent page is deleted its children must be de-parented by changing their parent id to -1 and parent guid to guid.empty so naturally they fall to the root. Leaving them attached to ids that no longer exist is not an option so the only other choice would be to delete child pages and that seems heavy handed and could lead to accidental deletion of pages.

Best,

Joe

9/1/2009 7:02:58 AM
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Re: Deleting Parent Pages

OK,
thanks Joe

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