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    Issue: Categories and Autolinking problem after changing replacement character

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    1. issueid=2585 January 18, 2012 11:05 AM
      tommythejoat tommythejoat is offline
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      Categories and Autolinking problem after changing replacement character
      The upgrade was set up with + for the replacement character but old links required _.

      When we did our upgrade, the plus character was selected as the space replacement character. However there we many links spread throughout our forms that referenced headlines inside of articles and these stopped working because the substitute character was underscore when they were created.

      I changed the space replacement character to underscore to get the old references to work again.

      Now many of the entries in categories do not appear unless the category links in the articles are deleted and re-entered. In addition we have some "partial" autolinks. e.g. There is an article North American Watch Co. and another article American Watch Co. In most cases this links properly to North American Watch co., but in one instance the link was created to American Watch Co. with the word North just hanging out there to the left.

      The forum post with the weird behavior is http://mb.nawcc.org/showthread.php?8...153#post622153.
    Issue Details
    Issue Number 2585
    Issue Type Bug
    Project VaultWiki 3.x Series
    Category Non-Wiki Threads / Posts
    Status Won't Fix
    Priority 7 - Minor Features / Enhancements
    Affected Version 3.0.16
    Fixed Version (none)
    Milestone (none)
    Software DependencyAny
    Users able to reproduce bug 0
    Users unable to reproduce bug 0
    Attachments 0
    Assigned Users (none)
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    1. January 19, 2012 5:25 PM
      pegasus pegasus is offline
      VaultWiki Team
      As mentioned in the description text for the replacement character setting: After changing the replacement character, you need to rebuild Page URLs - AdminCP > VaultWiki > Wiki URL Manager > Rebuild Page URLs. I suspect you have done this already, since you're not complaining that pages are missing.

      This fixes most issues, but doesn't fix saved category links or BB-Code links. There's really no way of doing this aside from saving the articles again. You might be able to fix them all at once with the Legacy Code Conversion process, but first you would need to create your own legacy tag in vault/class/bbcode/legacy/mediawiki.php that would affect all your articles - maybe have it do something simple like place a COMMENT tag at the beginning of all articles. It needs to change something, because if no changes are detected, the article won't bother generating a new revision.

      Another way to avoid this issue in the future is to edit the Category pages before changing the replacement character. Once you edit the Category page, it will generate a Category ID number, rather than relying on how other articles have entered its name.

      This will not be a problem in VaultWiki 4 because you can no longer add Category tags for Categories that don't exist. Adding the tag also creates the Category if you have permission; if you don't, you can't add the tag.
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