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| author | John Talintyre <john.talintyre@drkw.com> | 2001-08-07 16:03:45 +0000 |
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| committer | John Talintyre <john.talintyre@drkw.com> | 2001-08-07 16:03:45 +0000 |
| commit | e51781dcaa872f10000e822e14dde5b8034c8061 (patch) | |
| tree | 66bdb97e4b1422f03f8a47647d0dbf4a68296f65 /TWiki | |
| parent | 12ef83533ca012a9cb3f20cdfa47aea12c88f4f4 (diff) | |
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| -rw-r--r-- | TWiki/ManagingWebs.mdwn | 15 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/TWiki/ManagingWebs.mdwn b/TWiki/ManagingWebs.mdwn index 2b5505cd..cd8b7e5f 100644 --- a/TWiki/ManagingWebs.mdwn +++ b/TWiki/ManagingWebs.mdwn @@ -1,17 +1,6 @@ ## <a name="TWiki_Administration"> TWiki Administration </a> -The current implementation of %WIKITOOLNAME% is designed to never forget, that means all topic changes are under revision control and you can't delete or rename topics. - -Nevertheless there are cases where you wish to delete topics. %WIKITOOLNAME% requires administrative stuff like that to be done on the shell level, so please ask your %WIKITOOLNAME% administrator to do that for you. A future version will allow administrators to do that on the browser level. - -### <a name="How_to_Rename_or_Delete_a_Topic"> How to Rename or Delete a Topic </a> - -* Go to the topic you want to rename / delete. -* Find out the back-links to this page from _Ref-By_ . Modify other topics if needed. -* Telnet to the %WIKITOOLNAME% installation. -* cd to <code>**twiki/data**</code> and then to the web where the topic is located. Rename / delete the topic ( <code>**name.txt**</code> ) and repository file ( <code>**name.txt,v**</code> ). **_Hint:_** Instead of deleting a topic you could create a <code>**Trash**</code> web and move topics/repositories to this web. (A future version of TWiki might have a Trash web.) -* Edit the <code>**.changes**</code> file and rename / delete all occurrences of the topic. **_Note:_** There might be several lines of the topic. -* cd to <code>**twiki/pub**</code> and then to the web where the topic is located. Rename / delete the topic attachment directory if present. +The current implementation of %WIKITOOLNAME% is designed to never forget. So you can't delete a topic, however you can move or rename a topic and the original information is saved in topic meta data. If you want an even stronger memory, you can disable renaming on some or all topics; see [[TWikiAccessControl]]. ### <a name="How_to_add_a_New_Web"> How to add a New Web </a> @@ -28,4 +17,4 @@ Nevertheless there are cases where you wish to delete topics. %WIKITOOLNAME% req * cd to <code>**twiki/templates**</code> and rename / delete the web directory if present. * cd to <code>**twiki/pub**</code> and rename / delete the web directory if present. --- [[Main/PeterThoeny]] - 03 Mar 2001 <br /> +-- [[Main/PeterThoeny]] - 03 Mar 2001 <br /> -- [[JohnTalintyre]] - 07 Aug 2001 <br /> |