Is it possible to update page urls on links automatically?

[cosmicsafari]

Hi all,

This is more of a general question than a problem per say.

Anyway I have been using the AssistedURL module for call to action links among other things, on the whole its a great module so shout out to the developers.

That said I just noticed that if you update a linked PW page's name/url any link field on other pages using AssistedURL don't update automatically.

If this is a limitation then thats fine just thought I would ask incase there is a setting either at module or sitewide level that I am missing that enables this to happen.

 

 

 

[BitPoet]

That's a limitation. The URL field type (which AssistedURL adds JS sugar to) doesn't store a page id for underlying URLs, so it has no way of knowing that the link is an internal one and that the URL has changed. I solved that problem by using a radio button that switches between the URL field (for non-PW links) and a regular page field. That's not perfect, but it works so far (quite a few years by now, actually) and I haven't had any user complaints.

[adrian]

@cosmicsafari - please check out my fork of the AssistedURL module: https://github.com/adrianbj/processwire-fieldtype-assisted-url

It stores links as IDs so links are updated if names are changed.

[cosmicsafari]

Good to know im not going mad and its supposed to work that way.

Both seem like good  solutions, will try both and see which works best for my project.

Many thanks! ?