topic Re: Renaming Sites in Alfresco Archive

Renaming Sites

dcoales — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 13:36:41 GMT

Hi,When you change a site name using the "Edit Site Details" form this only changes the site title so although the site appears to have the new name when searching for sites it still appears in the repository browser under the old name.Is it possible to rename the top level folder associated with a

Re: Renaming Sites

mikeh — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 14:18:48 GMT

No sorry, we don't support renaming Site "short names" because there are related assets that are linked by name, e.g. the Site membership groups, the Dashboard metadata, etc.

If you really don't like your Site's name, create a new Site and move everything across.

Thanks,
Mike

Re: Renaming Sites

dcoales — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 14:27:33 GMT

OK will do. Presumably I will have to reinvite everyone to the new project though - not a major problem in this case as there aren't many users.

Many thanks for your swift response by they way.

Cheers,
David

Re: Renaming Sites

mikeh — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 14:57:22 GMT

Yes, you will. I agree it's not ideal. You could raise a JIRA ticket which will help raise the issue's profile internally.

Thanks,
Mike

Re: Renaming Sites

dcoales — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 16:50:49 GMT

I would be more than happy to do that. Can you point me at any user guide on how to access JIRA - I'm a complete newbie here.

Thanks
David

Re: Renaming Sites

mikeh — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 21:11:19 GMT

I would be more than happy to do that. Can you point me at any user guide on how to access JIRA - I'm a complete newbie here.

Thanks
David

There's a link in my signature. You'll have to create an account (I don't think the work's complete to tie it to the forum login yet)

Thanks,
Mike

Re: Renaming Sites

mrogers — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 21:27:30 GMT

Renaming sites is a known issue. There are already issues for it. And product management is aware its needed.

Re: Renaming Sites

dcoales — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 21:33:35 GMT

Ok, so nothing for me to do then. That's the short of result I like.