The choice to make internal links dynamic

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Kristian Borglund

• June 04, 2021 05:16
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UPDATED JUNE 4. How about having two kinds of linking, one dynamic and one that's not. Shift + Cmd + alt L for dynamic link, and Shift + Cmd + L for normal links? 

When a dynamic link is changed, the text of that link is updated everywhere it's used.

Let's say the bullet is called "My visits to New York Clubs". I copy the link, and insert that link at four different places in Workflowy. Later I change the text of the bullet to "My experiences of New York Clubs" instead. Then I want the links to reflect that update. 

 

 

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  Frank (Workflowy Support)

  • June 02, 2021 18:38

  Hi Kristian,

  Thank you for the suggestion... this is a tad tricky because many WorkFlowy users have asked that we don't do this... because often they want the link to fit into the context of the text it's embedded in... and that may look different in different contexts... so if we were to automatically change a title, that would not make sense to them...

   

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  Kristian Borglund

  • June 04, 2021 05:17
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  Thank you for a quick response, Frank! True. How about having two kinds of linking, one dynamic and one that's not (much like you can choose to insert a mirror or choose to paste a bullet. Shift + Cmd + alt L for dynamic link, and Shift + Cmd + L for normal links? 

  (I've updated the feature request now)

  / Kristian

   

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  François

  • June 23, 2021 15:44
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  I propose to add the possibility for mirror links so that they fix this issue.
  A forward link would be added as a child of the linking node

   

  * Context
      * Path
          * inline ((dynamic bullet))
              # dynamic bullet
                  * mirror content (or maybe no bullet)
              * Stuff about mirror linking...
          * ((dynamic bullet))
              * mirror content (or maybe no bullet)
  * Another Context
      * Path
          * ((dynamic bullet))
              * mirror content (or maybe no bullet)

   

  Mirror links would not be clickable but displayed differently

  François

   

   

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