Auto-update hyperlinks when replicating articles across workspaces
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Lavender Swordfish
When replicating articles from one workspace to another, hyperlinks within the replicated content continue to point to the original workspace instead of updating to the corresponding articles in the destination workspace.
This is a significant issue for organizations that maintain multiple workspaces for different customer bases. Readers who only have access to the destination workspace (workspace 2) cannot access the linked content because the hyperlinks redirect them to the source workspace (workspace 1), which they do not have access to — even when the linked articles have already been replicated to workspace 2.
Example:
Article A is replicated from workspace 1 to workspace 2
Article A contains hyperlinks pointing to Article B in workspace 1
Article B has also been replicated to workspace 2
However, the hyperlinks in the replicated Article A still point to Article B in workspace 1
Readers in workspace 2 cannot access workspace 1, so the links break for them
Expected behavior:
When an article is replicated to a destination workspace, any hyperlinks pointing to articles that also exist in the destination workspace should automatically update to point to the correct articles within that workspace.
Impact:
This is causing a poor reader experience for customers who are scoped to a specific workspace and do not have access to the source workspace.
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Mohamed Shakheen
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Mohamed Shakheen
Hi Lavender Swordfish
Thank you for laying this out so clearly.
When articles are replicated to a destination workspace, internal hyperlinks that still point back to the source workspace create broken experiences for readers who are scoped only to the destination - even when the linked articles have already been replicated. The content is there, but the links don't know it.
The expected behavior you've described is the right one: replication should resolve hyperlinks to their corresponding counterparts in the destination workspace wherever a match exists.
We'll evaluate this and sharean update here.