Book, Chapter, Page URL by using id instead of permalink

[nexgen]

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Describe the Scenario

Is there anyway I can construct a url by id only instead of using slug/permalink?

Exact BookStack Version

latest

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Hosting Environment

ubuntu

[ssddanbrown]

Hi @nexgen,
We provide an id-based URL for pages.
This can be accessed via the popover when you select some page text:

This link will be a redirect though to the (slug-based) page URL, and we don't provide such a mechanism for books/chapters.

[nexgen]

I'm syncing some notes offline and for now I'm creating the link using the slug. However, whenever I rename the book/chapter/page the slug gets modified which breaks the link I have stored. It would be great to have alternative link like:

http://bookstack.com/?book=12
http://bookstack.com/?chatper=15
http://bookstack.com/?page=19
etc...

Where 12, 15, 19 or the ids of book/chapter/page

[Ionys320]

I would suggest a system with title + id in the URL, with the following format: https://example.com/hello-world-123bf79.
The advantage is that you use the id only to determine which ressource it belongs to.

Therefore, both https://example.com/hello-world-123bf79 and https://example.com/my-cat-is-awesome-123bf79 would work without any redirection stuff, only by using 123bf79 as the ID.

[nexgen]

it still doesn't solve my problem. Those are not valid links for bookstack.

[ssddanbrown]

I'm going to close this off since the original question in this support thread was answered, and since there's an existing request for similar permalinks for other content types open in #1781.

@Ionys320 I was thinking of a similar hybrid like that in my proposal in #3520, but ultimately changing URL scheme or even just adding support for another is not really something I'd deem worthwhile as per my thoughts in that thread.