What articles link to a specific article
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Auri Poso
I sorely need to know what other articles link to a specific article that I'm about to delete (especially in the absence of an archive function). Either it doesn't exist or I can't find it in the UI - in either case I need it to be possible.
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sridhar joshi
This is such a wonderful thing to have.
Stephen Kairys
This is a great idea. I'm going to be deleting a few articles soon (because of redundant content) and it would be great to be reassured that nothing links to the deleted doc. Proactively rather than reactively.
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Auri Poso
So when I delete an article, I first delete or edit the links to that article from any other. For example, "Create X" might be linked from "Setting up X and Y", "X options", "Create Y" and so on.
If I don't do this, then the links from the other articles break. There's a space of time when I have to go to the link management section to fix all the links I missed. This takes time, and in the meanwhile users are getting 404s.
I want to be able to proactively edit the links so that when the article gets deleted, it no longer has any incoming links.
Mohamed Shakheen
Hi Auri, Thanks for sharing the feedback.
Could you please elaborate this usecase?
Caroline Tabach
Mohamed Shakheen From time to time we might remove an article, but that article might be linked to from other articles,
If we delete it, we will break lots of things in the system
It would be great if there was a warning that the article is linked to, and a list of articles where it appears. We can then remove the link, or use a different one. This also shows the full implications of removing an article.