Redirect Article- possible?

Hi,

we are using Discourse as KnowledgeBase. As articles evolve we frequently merge some tickets. But obviously links from other articles exists to both articles.

Is there a way to redirect from one article to another?

I mean, yes of course I can simply create the link as content of the old ticket linking to the new one but I am thinking of an autmated redirect (invisble for users)

Is it possible?

/KNEBB

Hi! check out your admin page at yoursite/admin/customize/permalinks

It should do just what you want (we love it)

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Did we clarify the UI here @techAPJ so people don’t think this can be used to redirect one Discourse topic to another?

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Hmmmmm…

# Oops! That page doesn’t exist or is private.

Were you not logged in? Or are you not an admin on the site?

We didn’t. Added on my list to do so. :memo:

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Ok guys,

got it so far. I am on the page you told me. But looks like I am too dumb to use it.
Again, I have an thread with the following URL:
https://help.domain.com/t/old-thread-title/6418

It has outdated content on it and I want it to link to a newer thread with URL:
https://help.domain.com/t/new-thread-title/11345

So I enterd in the admin’s permalink site on the left the first URl from above and entered the thread-ID of 11345 in the second field.

Trying to access the URL still shows old contend. Tried with a second browser where I am not logged in and did a “Reload” as well. Still old content.

Any ideas?
Thanks!

/KNEBB

Did I get it right now? I can not use this feature to redirect from “inside” Discourse? Well, this explains why it is not working.

In this case back to my original question:

I have a topic which is outdated. I need to replace. I have a new article which replaces the old one. There are several links in the forum to the old article. I want these (internal) links now to point to the new article.

Is this possible?

Note: Yes, I can edit the old thread and just place a link to the new one there… but that’s not really nice…

Thanks again!

/KNEBB

Then you should probably use Replace a string in all posts to change those links.

But then the old article can still be accessed by people who use their local browser bookmarks.

Still, not a really usable solution.

Further ideas?
Honestly, I am surprise this appearing to be so complicated. Am I really the only one needing such thing?

Thanks

/KNEBB

Done via:

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/ed70595314f02e89c341287fac2fa56a81d2de05

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Hi,

ok, you fixed the description, right? So no one should complain any further about permalinks not working on internal links.

But the issue is still unresolved, with this change, right?

So there is no way to replace an existing article by a new one?

Thanks!

/KNEBB

Just edit and replace the text?

スレッドを乗っ取らせていただきます。私も全く同じことをしたいからです。また、私が(同じ会社で)knebb氏の元の計画に従っているので、knebb氏が怒ることはないと思います。

私の理解では、パーマリンクは次のようなリダイレクトを行うはずです。
https://help.domain.com/t/old-thread-title/6418
から
https://help.domain.com/t/new-thread-title/11345

しかし、実際には行われません。最初のURLのブラウザ呼び出しを2番目のURLに転送したいのです。記事への内部リンクの直接アクセスではなく。
knebb氏と同様に、この単純なリダイレクトがあまり頻繁に要求されず、明らかに不可能であることに少し困惑しています。

このタスクを解決するためのヒントがあれば、どんなものでも教えてください。DirkS

解決策が見つかりました。重複(私の例では old-thread-title/6418)を削除し、パーマリンクを使用する必要があります。そうすれば、管理者はリダイレクトに気づきません。なぜなら、管理者は削除されたトピックも表示するからです。通常のユーザーにとっては、リダイレクトは機能しています。

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