removing a book page (not deleting)

I also have been trying to remove a webform from a book, without deleting the form itself - it takes a while to add lots of form components, so preserving the webform would be desired.

seems to me you can visit the nodes, click on the outline tab, reset the book dropdown to none and it will be removed from the book but left as a node.

I just looked, and the none option does not appear in the list of a child book page, at the second level.

However, a button "Remove from book outline" does appear.

The other Webform I mentioned above, was finally removed using such a button. I didn't see it - oops - and was looking instead in the drop-downs for book and parent.

- this is with Drupal 6.10

which means this can be marked as fixed.

Removing book page.

I can't seem to work this out. I don't have any of the options above. I 've been to the book hierarchy, the node outline tab and the edit tab with the book outline entry. I can't see any button or none in drop down. I'd remove the whole book if I could find where to delete it.

Can anyone help?

Thanks

Same problem here.
I can add nodes to a book, but I see no way of removing a node from a book unless I delete the node.
In the book outline of the node edit page, I'm getting a list of existing books, but no option for 'none' or "remove from book outline"

Hello Community,

I have the same problem with a Drupal 6.14 installation. During the creation of content is a option available in the "Book Outline" section.
After the node is created, this option disappears and I can't remove a node from a book without delete it. Is there any possibility or work around
to get a node out of a book? This is also true if I come from the "Re-order book pages and change titles" page and want to edit a node witch belongs
to a book. The option in the "Book Outline" section isn't available. Also if I delete the top-level page in a book, the child pages only switch to the top level and i can't get it out of the book.

Many thanks for any help.

The simple solution for anyone else like my:
Remove a content typ from book outline:

The only possibility to remove any content type from a book without delete the node is the following:

- Visit the node as Admin

- Choose the tab "Outline"

- Click the Button "Remove from book outline"

- do this for any node to remove

This issue can also arise if your content type is not check as one that can be used in a book format.
If you dont see the "remove from book" button try checking the book setting and make sure the content type is part of the settings allowing it to be a book.

I have a site running Drupal 6.19 and I have the Book and the Forum module enabled (among many others). In addition to the default User roles, I have added Admin and Editor.

On the Admin->Users->Permissions page I have:

access printer-friendly version Yes/Yes
add content to books Yes/Yes
administer book outlines Yes/Yes
create new books Yes/Yes

For Admin and Editor

In Admin->Content->Books->Settings

I have:
Allowed book outline types: only Book Page is checked
and Default child page type is set to Book Page

A user with the Editor role created a Forum topic. Apparently, the Book Outline section appeared on the Node Add page for the Forum Topic and a Book title was assigned by the Editor (by mistake).

This book shows up in my list of books and I have no way to remove it. I'm logged in as the site admin (User 1 - not a user with my Admin role). When I try to edit the node and select the Outline tab, I do not see a button for removing the node from the book. Then I went to the Admin->Content->Books->Settings, checked Forum Topic as an allowable book outline type, and returned to the Outline tab on the node edit page. Still no button to remove the node from the book.

How can I remove the book without deleting the Forum topic? Also, functionally, I thought that only site admins see the 'Book Outline' section for Node add/edit for content types not specified in Admin->Content->Books->Settings. This editor should not have even seen the option to add the Forum topic to a book even though that role can create a book and administer the book outline.

This bug is still active. Is it gonna be solved?

The issue isn't marked as a bug. I can't explain why I have the option to remove from the outline that others don't find.

I'll look in to it

As a temporary workaround, one can get to the outline functionality for a particular node by visiting node/[nid]/outline, where [nid] is the node id for the node you wish to change. You should then be able to click the "remove from book outline" link.

also reported here against 7.x

Thanks @PeterErnst! I didn't realize that I had to be Admin to Remove a book from the outline. I thought having an Admin role would be sufficient.

The workaround in #16 doesn't work for me.

Judging by all the people in here (including me) experiencing this, there is clearly something wrong here.

I have no blank entries in the book parent dropdown and no "Remove from book outline" link in the outline tab.

Sorry :( The cause of this, in my case, was that the page in questions had child pages. Ofcourse you cannot remove a page without reassigning its children first. Perhaps this might have been the case for some of the other reporters as well? The "Remove from book outline" appeared on the outline tab once I got that sorted out. In hindsight, some of the comments clearly seem to be caused my insufficient permissions (being user 1 is not necessary).

@fuzzy76, I'm logged in as user-1 and have all permissions for everything and all content types and content.

@wingflap, my settings permissions are already set correctly:
access printer-friendly version Yes/Yes
add content to books Yes/Yes
administer book outlines Yes/Yes
create new books Yes/Yes

@chicagomom, I tried your workaround and it finally worked! I do have the "remove from book outline" button available to me at the bottom of the form. Thanks for the suggestion!

This bug has reappeared in Drupal 8.

This has been fixed in 8.0.5, closing this issue again.

I think it's just sort of easy to miss. See this screenshot http://screencast.com/t/KzhZilZPyal

In D7, for some reason I can't access node/[nid]/outline but I can access node/[nid]/outline/remove and that worked for me.