content apps and node name vs name property

[Samuli Saarinen]

Hi,

What might be the correct way to handle "name" for content types. It's kinda confusing that each node has potentially 2 names that some times are the same but also different. 

Like I have a custom conten app and I create new content and enter something to "name" field which shows in both node name and name property. Then I use copy/paste to duplicate the node and this process ends up creating a new node (and if pasted to the same parent) will name the node with unique name but only the JCR node name not the property so I end up with UI showing the name property of both nodes where the names are identical but each having unique node name under the hood.  Is there a correct way to deal with the name or is it just the complete mess that it seems to be? (Not as bad as assets having 3 names though but let's not get in to that in this post)

BR, Samuli

[Roman Kovařík]

Hi Samuli,

The nodeName property can, unlike the JCR node name, contain special characters. The restricted set also depends on your UTF8 settings.

I noticed that the duplicate action includes some logic to update the name properties. If the copy/paste functionality doesn’t handle this, I’d consider it a bug.

Regards,

Roman