[opencms-dev] How to move content properly

[Stephan Hartmann]

Internal links could be tracked in an additional table as it was in 
OpenCms 5. Maybe this concept has been dropped due to overhead of 
maintenance and access rights (when an editor moves a resource you have 
to check if he has the rights to edit the pages that link to it).

Daniel Wiesner schrieb:
> I think the first option is the better one. The kind of internal links 
> in this style: "/en/projects/overview.html" istead of 
> "page?id=4532534..." includes additional information for users and 
> searchbots.
> Maybe there is a way to rewrite internal links after moving a page in a 
> new module under admin/content-tools?
> 
> Daniel
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> Peter Birchmeier schrieb:
> 
>> Hi
>>
>> to be honest, I also wonder about the content addressing mechanism 
>> used by OpenCms. In my opinion, it is one of the main tasks of a CMS 
>> to take over the automated linking between content objects.
>> I think there exist two ways to go:
>>
>> 1. Content objects (xml content, jsp/html pages, ..) are further 
>> addressed by its VFS file name. Whenever an object shall be 
>> renamed/moved, all other objects linking to the previous should be 
>> adapted. A good solution would be to store additional infos for each 
>> content object, infos containing a list of all objects linking to the 
>> specific one. Thus instead of starting a complete search over a wide 
>> range of objects to find all linking objects, only the objects in the 
>> list have to updated.
>>
>> 2. More complicated but more effective: content objects are only 
>> addressed by its id.
>> Disadvantage: Building and maintaining JSP files manually is nasty 
>> since links (includes, ..) contain ids instead of comprehensible file 
>> names of objects.
>> Advantage: objects can be renamed, moved, whatever you like to do with 
>> it. If there is enough support in automating the process of linking 
>> (e.g. inserting a link: OpenCms asks to chose a file (= object) and 
>> inserts its id), it is the way to go.
>>
>> kind regards, Peter
>>
>>
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