[Zope-CMF] Copy/Paste Workflow Bug?

[Tres Seaver]

On Wed, 2002-07-17 at 19:04, Sidnei da Silva wrote:
> Howdy,
> 
> I was migration an old site this weekend, and after copying all the object 
> from the old to the new site, i noticed that most of them lost the workflow 
> state.
> 
> I tried to reproduce the bug, and this is what happens:
> 
>   * Cut object, paste on another folder -> workflow state is kept.
>   * Copy object, paste on same folder -> workflow state is lost for new 
> object.
>   * Copy object, paste on another folder -> workflow state is lost for new 
> object.
> 
> Alan told me that this should have been fixed a while ago, and i remeber the 
> thread, but i cant remember the solution. He also mentioned that maybe 
> something was appending to review_workflow or workflow_history, and removing 
> the last item there would fix it, but i couldnt find the relation to 
> copy/paste.

"Copy + paste" creates a "new" object, which does not retain the
workflow history of the source object.  "Cut + paste" moves the object,
and shouldn't therefore wipe out its history (it used to add a new
"initial" state record to the history, by accident;  we fixed that since
1.2).

If you really want copied items to be in the same workflow state as the
source object, then you will likely need to customize the 'folder_paste'
skin method to achieve this, perhaps by calling an external method.

Tres.
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