Auto links

**Alan_SP** · March 25, 2011

How does auto link feature works?

I understood that if I have article with a name MMS (I have) and somewhere in the post (I enabled auto links in CMS, blogs, forum and wiki) someone mentions word MMS, it would become link that points to article MMS.

Article is in default namespace (I don't have other namespaces), language is Croatian, but I don't have links pointing to article, even if I change language to Croatian, English, as far as I can tell auto links doesn't work.

Do I need to setup something else too?

**pegasus** · March 25, 2011

If "MMS" is less than the Minimum Characters for Auto-Links (default: 4), then it will not be linked, because VaultWiki will only look for words that are at least this long to save time. You can change this value in Settings > Options > VaultWiki: General Settings.

**Alan_SP** · March 25, 2011

Yes, I realized that just a moment ago. It was 4, now I put 3. When should MMS become link? After I post it, or is it solved through some cron task?

**pegasus** · March 25, 2011

After you post it. Anything that is already cached won't become a link unless you expire the cache or update the post.

**Alan_SP** · March 25, 2011

Thanks, I cleared article post cache in Wiki Maintenance Tools and here it is. That was it... Now I have links to article.

I'm just looking at old posts. Is it possible to include links to articles in all old posts without editing them?

**pegasus** · March 25, 2011

You would have to clear the vBulletin post cache if you want to do that.

**Alan_SP** · March 25, 2011

Do you mean that I need to use this:

AdminCP->Maintenance->Update Counters->Rebuild Post Cache

Or something else? I don't know for option to just clear post cache.

**pegasus** · March 25, 2011

That is the correct option, but I believe it runs through every post in the database and re-parses it. If you have a large forum, this is not an advisable option. Instead it may be better just to run the SQL query:

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