[Pier] Internal Link Problems

[Dominique Dutoit]

Hi,

I agree with you about the issue you are raising. In fact, it's the  
only reason why I am holding back my plan to upgrade to the latest  
version of Pier.

We use a slightly customised Pier to manage our intranet and it was  
relatively easy to explain to the users that if they want to create a  
link to a structure, they just have to put the title of the target.

The situation was not that smooth when we were using Plone and custom  
CMS. Even after a while, a large portion of our user base still had  
troubles to make the difference between the name of a structure and  
its title when it came to create links. The consequence was that the  
sites produced during that period contained a lot of endless pages  
and very few links.

So far, we get a better balance between cross-referencing and page  
size, thanks to the sheer simplicity of the way Pier manages its  
links. I fear that we will lose this simplicity if we introduce back  
the same concepts that didn't performed that well during our previous  
attempts.

Regards,
Dominique

Le 08-mars-06 à 15:55, Thomas Froeb a écrit :

> Hi,
>
> since the structures have a "name" beside the "title" it's very
> difficult to create internal Links when you renamed (rather  
> "retitled")
> a structure.
> You have to always remember the name you gave the structure first
> because if you want to create internal links you have to use now this
> name else the link is broken. I don't think thats a good Idea  
> because no
> one can guess the hidden "name" of structures....
>
> Regards,
> Thomas