Re: [xwiki-devs] A subtle problem with the Workflow Application and nested pages

On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 12:10 PM, Clemens Robbenhaar &lt;c.robbenhaar(a)posteo.de > > > Am 15.12.2017 10:18 schrieb Marius Dumitru Florea: > >> On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 1:10 AM, Clemens Robbenhaar < >> c.robbenhaar(a)posteo.de&gt; >>> >> Hi Devs, >>> >>> some users reported a problem to me concerning the Publication Workflow >>> Application and the nested pages feature. >>> The problem is as follows: >>> >>> In their old instance (some 6.4.x) they had a draft space and a public >>> space and workflows attaching each page in the draft space with a page in >>> the public space in an 1:1 manner, like: >>> >>> Draft.WebHome --> Public.WebHome >>> Draft.PageA --> Public.PageA >>> Draft.PageB --> Public.PageB >>> >>> Now if a link in, say, PageA in the Draft space points to another page, >>> e.g. PageB, this is done via a relative link like [[link >>> text>>doc:PageB]] >>> After publishing PageA, the link of the published variant points to the >>> published variant of PageB (and not the variant in the Draft space), >>> which >>> is the desired effect from the users point of view. >>> >>> Now after migration to 9.10 the situation is as follows: >>> >>> Draft.WebHome --> Public.WebHome >>> Draft.PageA.WebHome --> Public.PageA.WebHome >>> Draft.PageB.WebHome --> Public.PageB.WebHome >>> >>> >> You should be able to force the application to create terminal pages as a >> temporary workaround. Then we need to see if it makes sense to add support >> for publishing a hierarchy of nested pages. >> >> >> [...] > > The problem here is that the Workflow Publication App does not create the > pages themselves. > I thought there is a template that is used to create the pages. If these are plain wiki pages then indeed, I don't have other options.