When a page is renamed, update links to it in other pages' files?

[morrowwm]

I'm working on cleaning up the structure of a ~2000 page wiki I've just imported into otterwiki.

Part of that effort is renaming pages, including moving some to be subpages under a "master" page.

When a page is renamed, any links to it in other pages are not currently updated, correct?

I can look at the effort of adding something for this. At least list pages that contain broken links after a rename. I'm not sure how painful this will get with git source control.

Is there code anywhere which goes through the content of every page?

Renaming is a relatively rare occurrence. So could be handling the links automatically behind the scenes is a bad idea, if the aim is to keep otterwiki minimalist. Leave it up to the editor to manually search for and repair the links.

[redimp]

Hey @morrowwm,

there is no such feature in An Otter Wiki (yet).

I thought about implementing this feature for multiple covering:

a) the links to attachments on the page itself (and other pages, using the same attachments)
b) the links to the page form other pages
c) corner case: When renaming attachments, the links shoudl be updated, see #65

Have I missed a case?

So could be handling the links automatically behind the scenes is a bad idea, if the aim is to keep otterwiki minimalist.

I would make this an option when renaming pages, so that you have to check a box, when you want links to be auto updated. There are cases, where users rename pages on a regular basis and don't want the links to be updated.

[morrowwm]

Have I missed a case?
Nothing else I can think of.
users ... don't want the links to be updated
OK, I can see that.

My server takes about 2-3 seconds to rebuild the index page, going through 44.000 lines of text, 4.2MB. This feature would take a bit longer.

P.S.: @redimp , what is your preference for us to ask questions on working with the software? For example, how do I restart flask(?) to have otterwiki pick up a change to the LOG_LEVEL environment variable? I'm happy to research this on my own if you have the slightest concern on getting overloaded.

[redimp]

what is your preference for us to ask questions on working with the software?

Using github discussions is the perfect choice. Bous points for marking the discussion as question.

For example, how do I restart flask(?)

This depends on how you deployed An Otter Wiki. Via docker-compose, just add the varibale to the environemnt: block and rund docker compose up -d which will restart the docker container.

[morrowwm]

I'm happy if you close this for now. I think it's not a high priority (to me).

[redimp]

Created an issue from this #228