[opencms-dev] How to move content properly

[Daniel Wiesner]

So in OCMS 5.0 internal links are corrected automatic? 


Stephan Hartmann schrieb:

> 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).
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> Daniel Wiesner schrieb:
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>> 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?
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>> Daniel
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>> Peter Birchmeier schrieb:
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>>> 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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