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[Aaron Wells <1270683@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

As discussed further on in that forum thread, a number only gets
appended when a page of the same title already exists.

Well... sorta. What happens in the code is we call View::new_title()
and/or Collection::new_title(), in lib/view.php and lib/collection.php
respectively. And these run a query like this to find out if there are
any pages with "the same" title:

SELECT title FROM {view} WHERE owner=? AND title LIKE ? || '%';

The "LIKE" portion of that query means that we look for whether you have
any pages that have a title that starts with or exactly matches the
requested title. So, the requested title "Untitled" would match
"Untitled 1", "Untitled Sonata", etc. Potentially this could cause
numbers to be added unexpectedly, like if you were copying a page titled
"Air" and you had another one called "Airlines of the 1950s", then "Air"
would get turned into "Air 1".

Hm, actually, I wonder if that's what's causing the intermittent results
for the user?

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1270683

Title:
  Don't append a number upon first copying of a page

Status in Mahara ePortfolio:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  When you have turned off "Copy of..." for pages ($cfg->renamecopies =
  false;), each page still gets a number appended even if that page /
  collection title does not yet exist in the user's portfolio.

  It would be better if a number would only be added to the title if the
  exact same title already existed.

  Tested on Mahara 1.8.

  See https://mahara.org/interaction/forum/topic.php?id=6013

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