Broken Links Report
Paligo keeps track of all relations between files automatically, including link references. This prevents you from breaking links as you could on a file system by moving files around or renaming them.
However, it is still possible to get broken links in a published output if you have links that point to content in other publications. This is because the target link is not included in your published publication and these links will be broken.
Note
Paligo recommends always checking for broken links before you Release Content.
To generate a link report:
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Select the Dotted menu (...) for the publication you want to check.
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Select Publish.
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Choose your publish settings.
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Check the box Make debug build.
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Select Publish document.
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In the output folder, open the
tmp
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Locate the HTML file that starts with "
linkreport
" and then the name of the publication. -
Double-click to open the Link Report file in a browser. You will see something like this:
The report contains:
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The title of the topic containing the broken link(s), as well as its UUID and Resource ID.
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Buttons Edit and Find to either directly open and edit the topic or to locate it in the Resource View.
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A broken link reference if the reference is to another topic and it exists, then the UUID will be hyperlinked to locate the target topic directly.
Note
The attempt to locate the target topic is based on the link reference format. There is no guarantee it exists though. If for example the target topic has been deleted, then the link to try to locate it will not work.
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Resolve the broken links.
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Republish with a new link report to verify that no broken links remain.