Create new pages as NOT terminal

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The following script creates a set of new pages. By default this pages are created as terminal pages so I want to change the XWikiPreferences value for isTerminated to 0 but it does not work as expected.

{{velocity}}
#set ($parentDoc = $doc)
#set ($pageContent = 'This is a new page.')
#set ($subPageNames = ["SubPage1", "SubPage2", "SubPage3"])
#foreach ($subPageName in $subPageNames)
  #if ($foreach.index < 10)
    #set ($subPageFullName = "${subPageName}")
    #set ($subPageDoc = $xwiki.getDocument($subPageFullName))
    #if ($subPageDoc.isNew())
      #set ($subPageContent = ${pageContent})
      $subPageDoc.setContent($subPageContent)
      $subPageDoc.setTitle($subPageName)
      $subPageDoc.save("Created new subpage: ${subPageName}")
      #set ($preferencesObj = $subPageDoc.getObject('XWiki.XWikiPreferences'))
      #set ($discard = $preferencesObj.setIntValue('isTerminated', 0))
      $subPageDoc.save("Changed new subpage to not terminated: ${subPageName}")
    #else
      Page $subPageName already exists.
    #end
  #end
#end
{{/velocity}}

If I try to open the pages only the page administration view shows up. So the following section has to be changed, but I have no idea how. Any ideas?

      #set ($preferencesObj = $subPageDoc.getObject('XWiki.XWikiPreferences'))
      #set ($discard = $preferencesObj.setIntValue('isTerminated', 0))
2

If I run the script without that section an manually changing the terminal attribute for SubPage2 with the renaming page dialog the url of the page changes from /SubPage2 to …/SubPage2/. After a new script run a second SubPage2 appears. After that …/SubPage2 and /SubPage2/ are two different pages that both are listed in the page tree?!? :thinking:

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The terminal page status of a page isn’t saved in any XObject but is simply a consequence of the page name: Document references like A.B.C that end in the “name” of the page are terminal pages, document references ending in .WebHome like A.B.C.WebHome are non-terminal pages. So when creating new pages, you need to make sure that your document references end in .WebHome. If you know the role of index.html on a web server, the WebHome name basically has the same role in XWiki.

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Thanks for the clarification. To get subpages of MySpace I changed how $subPageDoc is generated and that worked:

{{velocity}}
#set ($parentDoc = $doc)
#set ($pageContent = 'This is a new page.')
#set ($subPageNames = ["SubPage1", "SubPage2", "SubPage3"])
#foreach ($subPageName in $subPageNames)
  #if ($foreach.index < 10)
    #set ($subPageFullName = "${subPageName}")
    #set ($subPageDoc = $xwiki.getDocument('MySpace.'+$subPageFullName+'.WebHome'))
    #if ($subPageDoc.isNew())
      #set ($subPageContent = ${pageContent})
      $subPageDoc.setContent($subPageContent)
      $subPageDoc.setTitle($subPageName)
      $subPageDoc.save("Created new subpage: ${subPageName}")
    #else
      Page $subPageName already exists.
    #end
  #end
#end
{{/velocity}}
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