I am using discourse to document the parts and pieces of a particular recent bill and would like to use the existing category & contents for said bill to provide the initial populating of a category focused on the repeal of that bill.
So category A with contents → category B Any thoughts on a good export/import for categories intra discourse?
I have considered spinning up new discourse for the category B work on a subdomain, a different domain i.e. domain focused on repeal effort or site focused on the actual text of the repeal act.
Also, related possibly: Has anyone done a sync setup from some category of a discourse to same /similar category on different discourse instance?
Thanks for that! It is useful but to answer your question, no subcategories, just one categories’ contents into another, once and done. I am trying to avoid duplicating manually but as I work on the manual approach I am reminded the topic title can’t be reused so I need to append/modify the title and change the contents to need text or placeholder.
I am probably conflating things a bit as I get my head wrapped around things. Also, I am trying to avoid use some actual links that would help with articulating my needs given the highly political nature of the bill in question.
Hopefully this helps.
For individual topics without all the index and chapter stuff
Category A
Sec. 10101. Re-evaluation of thrifty food plan tagged Enrolled-Text
Law-as-Amended | Sec. 10101. Re-evaluation of thrifty food plan tagged Law-as-Amended
Impact | Sec. 10101. Re-evaluation of thrifty food plan tagged Impact
Category B
Draft | Sec. 10101. Re-evaluation of thrifty food plan tagged Draft
Ready-to-Publish | Sec. 10101. Re-evaluation of thrifty food plan tagged Ready-to-Publish
Published | Sec. 10101. Re-evaluation of thrifty food plan tagged Published (the text would be pubished on a seperate single focus site.)
I could not see a workable path using some mix of the rails queries suggested by @pfaffman but his subcategories prompt was very useful.
I was reticent to Allow duplicate topic titles as @Moin suggested but turns out the result was not confusing, at least to me, as I feared it would be.
So… category A for the original bill, two subcategories for Law as Amended and Impact, create new mirrored tag groups for the two subcategories using existing tags, then create new topics with placeholder text for each of the Sections of the original bill. This part is rather brain numbing given the there are 307 sections/topics in category A. 614 manually created topics, yikes.
I thought turning off Allow duplicate topic titles would be best once we open the forum to users but I believe that would make any edits in the topics un-savable which won’t work with topics as wikis.
In practice allowing duplicate titles may not create the confusion I fear but..
Does it makes sense to have warning that prompts the user to adjust the title instead of just allowing the topic save to proceed? Maybe something similar to:
But with different text and selecting OK saves the topic.
“The topic title you are attempting to use has been used at least once before. Please consider revising the title or, the duplicate title is needed or desired, please proceed with the save.”
duplicate topic titles are fine, i have hundreds of them. The purpose of me allowing duplicate titles is helpful when searching the database, perhaps it’s not for you?
given the there are 307 sections/topics in category A. 614 manually created topics, yikes.
