Re: Copy branch of Tree to another parent

On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 1:19 PM, bs28723
<bill.stoltz@boosterwebsolutions.com> wrote:
> Sorry, if my question was not clear.
>
> I want to "copy" the entire branch to another location. So, if I want to
> copy a branch that has 5 children,
> then I need to create the new parent node first, then once I have this ID, I
> can then create the 5 children nodes.
> That is a fairly easy example. But what about a branch that has 4 levels
> and 5 nodes?
>
> Is seems like I have to walk the original tree and create each node, then
> sub-node, then leaf, etc, etc.
> Anyone done this before? Any suggestions?

Hi Bill,

Yes I have done this before, but I didn't find an elegant solution so
I did exactly what you mention and walked the tree (to a fixed depth)
and inserted the nodes.

I'll post the code up somewhere now just in case it saves you a bit of
time, but it's pretty ugly.

I know what you mean though - it seems to be a pretty common
requirement so I'm surprised there isn't a more obvious way of doing
it. I guess using find('threaded') and unsetting the parent_ids
didn't work?

Thanks,

Alex


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