Highlight current doc topic in the sidebar identified by their slugs in the index

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I’m trying to define the TOC index items using only the slugs, rather then adding the topic index at the end of the URL - so I can maintain the same TOC index across environments (DEV/PROD).

This appears to work (as it navigates to the correct topic using the slug only), but the current topic is not highlighted in the menu on the left unless I also add the ID to the end of every URL. Is there a workaround for this?

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Discourse Doc Categories
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Oh that’s a cool use-case. I understand about just using the slugs, but how will you get around replacing the site URLs?

e.g. on prod

# Index
- https://prod.discourse.site/t/one-slug

then on dev

# Index
- https://dev.discourse.site/t/one-slug
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I’m using relative paths for the URL’s (t/one-slug) which seem to work fine?

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I see, so something like the following:

## Setup

* [Initial setup of your device](/t/initial-setup-of-your-device)

Gotcha. I’m working on an update for your slug request.

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Thanks Natalie! Much appreciated :slight_smile:

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I noticed there was an update for this, so I have tried it on my system - but it doesn’t appear to work. Apologies if this is still in progress :slight_smile:

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FYI- I found a way to update post-id indexes for all anchor links for every anchor on PROD using rails - so have a workaround for this now.