From: "David E Jones" <d...@me.com>
On Dec 15, 2009, at 2:15 PM, Jacques Le Roux wrote:
Yes, but those links were supposed to be more portable.
According to who or what?
I did not well expressed myself. I thought they were more portable because, as you say below "They were supposed to be a unique
identifier for the page so you could get to it even if the name/title of the page changed"
Or did I misunderstand at some point and they are only interesting for emails?
Else I would never have used them outside of emails since they are not easier
to get
In my opinion they're not even good for emails. I hate blind clicking,
personally.
In case there is http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/x/ at the head of the link it's not so blind and sometimes convenient. Look for
instance at those awfull permalinks Jira generates! Anyway it's just my opinion ;o)
They were supposed to be a unique identifier for the page so you could get to it even if the name/title of the page changed.
However, if the unique identifier didn't transfer over to a new system, maybe it's not even that helpful.
So true :/
Also, if you go to a page whose name has changed confluence will automatically try to figure out which page you meant, and usually
does a good job of helping you find the page.
Yes this a nice (optionnal) feature
For internal links, ie to another part page in confluence, it's really silly to use the external short links when you can refer
internally to the pages by name, and confluence will update those links whenever names change.
I totally agree! [my page|SPACE:my page title] is the better solution internally, for sure! SPACE:my page title being optionnal if
you are in the same space then [my page title] is enough. Anyway this is well described and handy in Confluence when you edit.
Jacques
-David
From: "David E Jones" <d...@me.com>
On Dec 15, 2009, at 1:52 PM, Adrian Crum wrote:
David E Jones wrote:
Well, hopefully we've learned our lesson...
"One thing man can learn from history is that man doesn't learn from history" or "Never assume a URL is eternal" - one of those
lessons?
Yes, exactly... which is one reason I like URLs with more information in them, like the space and page name in normal confluence
URLs. It's also nice to have an idea about what you're going to get when you go a URL (I personally don't like blink
clicking...).
-David
