Package: content

content_symlink

Overview
Related Objects
API

Overview

Symlinks are pointers to items within the content repository. They are simply used to create links between content items.

Related Objects

API

Function: content_symlink.is_symlink

Determines if the item is a symlink

Author:

Karl Goldstein

Returns:

't' if the item is a symlink, 'f' otherwise

Parameters:

item_id: The item id

Declaration:


function is_symlink (
  item_id          in cr_items.item_id%TYPE
) return char;

See Also:

content_symlink.new, content_symlink.resolve

Function: content_symlink.new

Create a new symlink, linking two items

Author:

Karl Goldstein

Returns:

The id of the newly created symlink

Parameters:

name:    The name for the new symlink, defaults to the name of the target item
label :    The label of the symlink, defaults to 'Symlink to <target_item_name>'
target_id:    The item which the symlink will point to
parent_id:    The parent folder for the symlink. This must actually be a folder and not a generic content item.
symlink_id:    The id of the new symlink. A new id will be allocated by default
creation_date:    As in acs_object.new
creation_ip:    As in acs_object.new
creation_user:    As in acs_object.new

Declaration:


function new (
  name          in cr_items.name%TYPE default null,
  label         in cr_symlinks.label%TYPE default null,
  target_id     in cr_items.item_id%TYPE,
  parent_id     in acs_objects.context_id%TYPE,
  symlink_id    in cr_symlinks.symlink_id%TYPE default null,
  creation_date in acs_objects.creation_date%TYPE
                           default sysdate,
  creation_user in acs_objects.creation_user%TYPE
                           default null,
  creation_ip   in acs_objects.creation_ip%TYPE default null
) return cr_symlinks.symlink_id%TYPE;

See Also:

acs_object.new, content_item.new, content_symlink.resolve

Function: content_symlink.resolve

Resolves the symlink and returns the target item id.

Author:

Karl Goldstein

Returns:

The target item of the symlink, or the original item id if the item is not in fact a symlink

Parameters:

item_id: The item id to be resolved

Declaration:


function resolve (
  item_id       in cr_items.item_id%TYPE
) return cr_items.item_id%TYPE;

See Also:

content_symlink.new, content_symlink.is_symlink

Function: content_symlink.resolve_content_type

Gets the content type of the target item.

Author:

Michael Pih

Returns:

The content type of the symlink target, otherwise null. the item is not in fact a symlink

Parameters:

item_id: The item id to be resolved

Declaration:


function resolve_content_type (
  item_id       in cr_items.item_id%TYPE
) return cr_items.content_type%TYPE;

See Also:

content_symlink.resolve

Procedure: content_symlink.copy

Copies the symlink itself to another folder, without resolving the symlink

Author:

Karl Goldstein

Parameters:

symlink_id: The id of the symlink to copy
target_folder_id: The id of the folder where the symlink is to be copied

Declaration:


procedure copy (
  symlink_id            in cr_symlinks.symlink_id%TYPE,
  target_folder_id      in cr_folders.folder_id%TYPE
);

See Also:

content_symlink.new, content_item.copy

Procedure: content_symlink.delete

Deletes the symlink

Author:

Karl Goldstein

Parameters:

symlink_id: The id of the symlink to delete

Declaration:


procedure delete (
  symlink_id    in cr_symlinks.symlink_id%TYPE
);

See Also:

content_symlink.new, acs_object.delete

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