Feature suggestion: detect broken links
Resurrecting this suggestion from over a year ago:
https://help.tenderapp.com/discussions/suggestions/247-feature-sugg...
I've really been liking writing KB articles on Tender, but I worry that as we change and move articles, I'll have broken links in my articles. It would be amazing if Tender could help detect broken links within articles so I could keep them up-to-date.
This has happened to us as well. With mulltiple people working on evolving FAQ content over long periods of time, it's almost inevitable that pages will be moved and information reorganized. (I know -- "Cool hyperlinks don't change" -- our FAQ just isn't that cool. So it changes.)
A tool to help this would be super helpful. Here's how I see it:
Tool to "Detect broken FAQ links". Run it manually and it scans all your FAQ pages for FAQ links and verifies they exist. In the end it shows a report listing each page that had broken links, and a list of broken links on each page. Link from this report to view/edit each page.
When first opening a page for edit, Tender scans content for broken FAQ links. At the top of the page it lists these broken links and makes suggestions for what it thinks you wanted based on matching keywords in the broken link with active FAQ entries. It's then up to the admin to fix the markup with proper links.
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1 Posted by Hobson on 15 Sep, 2010 03:29 AM
There are many easy solutions for checking the links on web sites, so developing and providing such tools ourselves would be a duplication of effort. It's not something we are likely to provide as built-in functionality. I'd track down one of the many public tools available for this and just use those.
Hope this helps,
-hobson
2 Posted by dkamins on 15 Sep, 2010 05:26 AM
Thank you for clarifying your position and pointing us in the right direction.
Assuming we're using a 3rd party tool to identify broken links, can you suggest the most expeditious way to figure out what they were intended to point to? (In the scope of FAQ-to-FAQ links within our Tender site)
E.g. we could remove all the hyphens (-) from the URL and type it into the FAQ search box, but this only works sometimes, and maybe there's something more efficient? This is sort of what I was getting at with # 2 in my suggestion above, but perhaps there is another way already to assist in this task if you don't plan to add anything like this.
Will closed this discussion on 25 Sep, 2010 03:17 AM.