Multiple category roots causing problems

[inmetatosu]

The editors reported that incorrect categories appeared when tagging pages. Upon investigation, we discovered that there are multiple "For All Sites" nodes in the access rights tree, with different categories. It appears to be random which of these nodes is selected as the category root when entering edit mode.

[AlexanderWagner82]

We've noticed that if you export/import pages with categories on them (say from stage to live) the new categories are exported to a new "For all sites"-node and even though they're selected on the page you can't chose them in the category three since they're not in the correct "For all sites"-node.

It's quite frustrating having to manually move these categories. We had to create a simple "move content"-plugin in order to do so since we can only see them in the access rights tree.

[Dandroid5000]

Hi @AlexanderWagner82

We are facing a similar issue, and we checked the 'Set Access Rights' panel, and yes, there are 4 'For All Sites' folders, nested under the main 'For All Sites' folder. We have also moved some content around using the import/export tool.

So what you describe is consistent with this behaviour.

Can you please share any more details about the tool you built?

[AlexanderWagner82]

Hi @Dandroid5000

It's just a really simple admin-tool where you move one node to under another.

`[Authorize(Roles = "CmsAdmin,WebAdmins,Administrators")]
public class MoveAnyContentController : Controller
{
private Injected _contentRepository;

    [Route("/moveanycontent/index")]
    public ActionResult Index(int source = 0, int target = 0)
    {
        if (source == 0 || target == 0)
            return View("~/Plugins/MoveAnyContent/Views/MoveAnyContent.cshtml");

        var sourceRef = new ContentReference(source);
        var targetRef = new ContentReference(target);

        _contentRepository.Service.Move(sourceRef, targetRef, AccessLevel.NoAccess, AccessLevel.NoAccess);

        return View("~/Plugins/MoveAnyContent/Views/MoveAnyContent.cshtml");
    }
}`

`@using EPiServer.Framework.Web.Resources
@using EPiServer.Shell
@using EPiServer.Shell.Navigation
@{
Layout = null;
}

<title>Move any content</title>

@ClientResources.RenderResources("ShellCore")

<!-- LightTheme -->
@ClientResources.RenderResources("ShellCoreLightTheme")

@Html.CreatePlatformNavigationMenu()

Move any content

Moves a content and its children to any target container. Use at caution, it can break the site

            @using (Html.BeginForm("Index", "MoveAnyContent", FormMethod.Get, new { enctype = "multipart/form-data" }))
            {

                <div class="epi-formArea epi-paddingVertical-small">
                    <label for="source">Soure ID</label>
                    <input type="number" id="source" name="source" />
                </div>

                <div class="epi-formArea epi-paddingVertical-small">
                    <label for="target">Target ID</label>
                    <input type="number" id="target" name="target" />
                </div>

                <div class="epi-buttonDefault">
                    <span class="epi-cmsButton">
                        <input type="submit" class="epi-cmsButton-text epi-cmsButton-tools epi-cmsButton-File" value="Move item" />
                    </span>
                </div>
            }
        </div>
    </div>
</div>

`

[Dandroid5000]

Hi @AlexanderWagner82 , wow, this is great!
Thanks so much for the quick response and for sharing the snippets. I'll be sure to give this a go.
Cheers!