When moving a web content to another folder, the modification date of the web content is updated

Issue

• When moving a web content from a folder to another, the modification date of all versions of the web content are updated.
• Is this an expected behavior?

Environment

• Liferay DXP 7.2
• Liferay DXP 7.3

Resolution

• When moving a web content to another folder, it is expected that the modification date of all versions will be updated.
• As you can see in the code, when moving an article, all versions of this article are recovered and later, both their new folderId and their new treePath are updated:
  

  List<JournalArticle> articles = journalArticlePersistence.findByG_A(
  	groupId, articleId);
  
  String treePath = null;
  
  for (JournalArticle article : articles) {
  	article.setFolderId(newFolderId);
  
  	if (treePath == null) {
  		treePath = article.buildTreePath();
  	}
  
  	article.setTreePath(treePath);
  
  	journalArticlePersistence.update(article);
  }

• This route update is what causes the modification date update for all versions.

Additional Information

• Web Content Articles