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Feature #91018
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Automatically convert Links with "external" URLs to same site to t3-links (page,file, etc.) in RTE transformation / link wizard / command?
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Accepted
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Should have
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Category:
Backend API
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Start date:
2020-04-14
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Description
I think it is a common phenomenon, that editors copy URLs out of the site and use it for the links. This may be especially true for large sites where it is tedious to click through the page tree in the link wizard.
The downside is:
- these links will break if the URL changes. Even if there are redirects, it is not necessary to redirect in this case and it does have an unnecessary performance and load impact.
- these URLs are more permanent. The page id will not change, the URL may change.
- will not work for translated pages, e.g. when the content is translated you have to change the links. If these were page links they would automatically already point to the translated page
There is already an extension which does these conversions but it currently does not work for RTE: https://github.com/georgringer/uri2link/
Also, I am wondering, why do this at a later point? Why not do it when the link is created:
- e.g. in the Link wizard. Either automatically convert the external URL link to page link in the link wizard or via a button. Make this configurable if this should always be done, be done in control of the editor or not at all.
- or, on RTE -> DB transformation
The conversion should work for RTE field and non-RTE fields.
In any case it would be good to additionally have a wizard or command line tool which does the conversion for old content.
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