Mailing List Archive: Bulk editing stories in Bricolage

Bulk editing stories in Bricolage

Sep 26, 2011, 8:15 AM

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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

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

david at kineticode

Sep 26, 2011, 10:58 PM

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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.

Best,

David

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

ps at phillipadsmith

Sep 27, 2011, 5:40 PM

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

> 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.

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

tom.ash at newint

Sep 28, 2011, 1:47 AM

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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:
>
>> 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?