Document Library: move entry to different folder question

[Oliver Bayer, geändert vor 13 Jahren.]

Hi @all,

I have a question regarding the movement of a previously uploaded document to a new folder in Liferay 5.2.3 CE.

If someone moves a document (DLFileEntry) from one to another folder the "old" entry in dlfileentry table is deleted and a new entry is inserted which has exactly the same values besides the new folderid.

Why is always a new dlfileentry table object created instead of modifying the existing one and change the folderid??

The problem with always creating a new dlfileentry object:
You have a web content structure with a field of type document library and create a new web content with a link to a document library file. If you then move a file to another folder the link to this file isn't working anymore because the new object gets a new uuid which is used for creating the link to this file.

I changed this behaviour so that only the folderid is updated and no new dlfileentry object is created. So it's working for me now. But why is the default creating a new object in the dlfileentry table and deleting the old one (just because of a folderid change)?

Oli

[Oliver Bayer, geändert vor 13 Jahren.]

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[Sylvain ARNAUD, geändert vor 13 Jahren.]

Hi Oliver,

I'm facing the same problem, with web content losing link to document library when moving a document from one folder to another.

Did you find an answer to explain the standard behavior that recreates a new document instead of updating the existing one?

Thank you.

[Oliver Bayer, geändert vor 13 Jahren.]

Hi Sylvain,

as you can see I don't get any official response from a Liferay dev but I'm don't facing any bugs because of my change. If your interested in this modification let me know or take a look at the "DLFileEntryLocalServiceImpl.updateFileEntry" method.

Greets Oli

[Sylvain ARNAUD, geändert vor 13 Jahren.]

It appears the problem is worse in Liferay 6.
Links to document library from web content use the full path to the document.

So, if I move a document from one folder to another, links to that document are lost, even if I fix the "changed UUID" problem.

"It's not a bug, it's a feature" ?

[Oliver Bayer, geändert vor 13 Jahren.]

Hi,

thanks for the info.

I'm not using Liferay 6 at the moment but it's good to know that the migration wouldn't be that easy.

Can you please create a jira ticket and link this thread? Because this seems to be definetly a bug, not to say a huge bug. Moving a document should never break the links to it. Otherwise the "move document" feature is worthless.

Thanks in advance.

Oli

[Sourabh Lonikar, geändert vor 7 Jahren.]

Hi Oliver,
Can you update if any progress or further information on link breakage due to movement of documents in Liferay 6 ?

I am also interested in this issue.

Regards,
Sourabh

[Jorge Díaz, geändert vor 7 Jahren.]

Liferay 6.2 don't recreate DLFileEntry unless its repositoryId/groupId changes (and that cannot be done using Liferay interface, it can only be done using Liferay API)