[Zope-CMF] how to bulk publish existing documents

[Joost van Lawick]

On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 10:31:53AM +0100, Joost van Lawick wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 10:07:57AM +0100, Jens-E. Hansen wrote:
> > 
> > Hi!
> > 
> > We are in the process of establishing an intranet portal with cmf and now I'm 
> > faced with the task to populate the portal with already existing html 
> > documents. What ist the best way to publish hundreds of documents and 
> > directories at once?
> > 
> 
> I use this script:
> ---------------------
> objList = context.ZopeFind(context, search_sub=1)
> 
> p = 0
> u = 0
> for obj in objList:
> 
>     try:
>         context.portal_workflow.doActionFor(obj[1], 'des2pusd', \
>                         comment='published automatically by manager')
>         print "Published object: ", obj[1].absolute_url()
>         p = p + 1
>     except:
>         print "Could not publish object: ", obj[1].absolute_url()
>         u = u + 1
> 
> print '\nTotal number of published objects: ', p
> print 'Total number of unpublished objects: ', u
> 
> return printed
> ---------------------
> 
> where des2pusd is the transaction to get documents from a 'Design' state to
> the 'Published' state. 
> 

If you call it on a folder, it will try to publish everything from this folder
downwards.

Joost

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