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Moving a page should update links
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Hein Thet Khin Zaw
Yes. we need this! 1+
Yusuf Gungor
+1
Eve Vinclair
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Peter Uithoven
This might be a duplicate of https://requarks.canny.io/wiki/p/persistent-links
Josh Cox
@Peter Uithoven: It definitely is. I don't know about other, but I'm not personally willing to go through the extra effort to lookup ids and use them directly. I create links to all sorts of pages that don't exist yet so that creating those pages later is just a bit quicker; if I were to use page IDs I wouldn't have this convenience. I suppose if it becomes a problem I'll switch to an alternative to WikiJS.
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Thomas Nilefalk
@Josh Cox: Well. I don't think it is a duplicate of that feature request, as that seems to have been interpreted by @Nicolas Giard as being able to use ID:s in links, considering his "Completion" marking on it. A suboptimal solution since they are hard to get at, not natural, and requires you to do manual steps when inserting links in an article as opposed to using the "insert link" button.
I interpret this feature request as "when I move a page all links to it should be updated accordingly", which I think is the correct way to handle it. As @Nicolas Giard also mentioned, "title based URLs will stay the default" so I think the solution should be to use title based URLs and update the internal links in articles.
Josh Cox
I use a wikijs instance as a notebook. When starting to fill out my notebook hierarchy there were several times where I needed to update page links manually. Changing wiki hierarchies is a reasonable thing to do; without target-preserving links it'll be too big of a manual effort for large wikis.
Maxime Chambonnet
That'd be so great. Can be done purely within postgres