Rename the doctype

Nivedita_Roychowdhur · February 12, 2018, 4:55am

I made a custom doc type in my custom app . This doc type hold a lot of data and this particular doc type is connected to many others . I have many script also regarding this .
Now I want to rename the doc type because it get conflicted to one of the erpnext doc type .
How to do this ? Any suggestion .

codingCoffee · February 12, 2018, 7:13am

I think you’ll have to do it manually

Create the doctype with the new name
Copy the code of .py and .js from your old_doctype to your new_doctype
Manually do a search and replace of your old_doctype name with new_doctype name in your code
Delete the old_doctype using the UI, also delete the folder with the old_doctype name

Nivedita_Roychowdhur · February 12, 2018, 9:17am

I can not delete the old doc type as it is connected to many other doc type .
Before deleting that I have to delete all the link as well .
I want to have the same table with a different name . is it possible to have without deleting the actual one ?

Nivedita_Roychowdhur · February 13, 2018, 5:37am

Can anyone give any idea about the above said problem .
Without deleting is it possible to rename it .
Overwriting a doc type by another name . Is it possible ?

Zlash65 · February 13, 2018, 5:45am

import frappe.model.rename_doc as rd
rd.rename_doc("DocType", old, new, force=True)

You can try this. It’ll rename the Doctype and all its occurrences in link fields, select fields, options, etc.

ahmadRagheb · May 29, 2019, 1:30am

[quote=“Zlash65, post:5, topic:33779”]
rename_doc[/quote]

doesn’t trigger the after_rename method

github.com

frappe/erpnext/blob/f3cc87455a615a92730d0b46ba0c83f29e1075f0/erpnext/stock/doctype/serial_no/serial_no.py#L168


      
          				sle_exists = True
          				break
          
          
		if sle_exists:
          			frappe.throw(_("Cannot delete Serial No {0}, as it is used in stock transactions").format(self.name))
          
          
	def before_rename(self, old, new, merge=False):
          		if merge:
          			frappe.throw(_("Sorry, Serial Nos cannot be merged"))
          
          
	def after_rename(self, old, new, merge=False):
          		"""rename serial_no text fields"""
          		for dt in frappe.db.sql("""select parent from tabDocField
          			where fieldname='serial_no' and fieldtype in ('Text', 'Small Text')"""):
          
          
			for item in frappe.db.sql("""select name, serial_no from `tab%s`
          				where serial_no like %s""" % (dt[0], frappe.db.escape('%' + old + '%'))):
          
          
				serial_nos = map(lambda i: new if i.upper()==old.upper() else i, item[1].split('\n'))
          				frappe.db.sql("""update `tab%s` set serial_no = %s
          					where name=%s""" % (dt[0], '%s', '%s'),