[opencms-dev] How to move content properly

Stephan Hartmann hartmann at metamesh.de
Mon May 2 11:55:53 CEST 2005


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Daniel Wiesner schrieb:
> So in OCMS 5.0 internal links are corrected automatic?
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> Stephan Hartmann schrieb:
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>> 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:
>>>
>>>> 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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