Managing links in LiveSite

We have TS721 and will start to implement LiveSite. One business requirement is make it easier for end user to manage links (URLs). Say user has documentA and it is first placed in folderA in TeamSite. On a LiveSite page, user add a static link to documentA. Then later user moved documentA to folderB in TeamSite. Is it possible to implement static links on LiveSite page so that after the file is moved, the link does not break?

I noticed that files submitted with LiveSite workflow has an EA: TeamSite/LiveSite/Id. I suppose this ID can be used to uniquely identify an asset in LiveSite. Even so, how can we make it easy for end user to create links without having to remember the LiveSite Id.

SharePoint 2010 CMS claim to have a new feature that allows moving of assets within the repository without breaking links. Wonder if LiveSite can counter that.

Thanks!

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RonaldV

Your teamsite version has a undocumented feature called 'dependency manager' which could be just what you are looking for.

See f.i. my blog post http://www.contentdokter.nl/cms-blog/view/teamsite-dependency-manager/ for more info.

Migrateduser

Thanks RonaldV. Dependency manager is certainly very nice to have. We do have TeamSite 7.2.1, but I don't see it on the GUI. Is it undocumented and hidden?

RonaldV

I think you have to select a file and then locate the menu option 'related files'.

Adam Stoller

I think you have to select a file and then locate the menu option 'related files'.

The menu option is under the Actions menu in CCPro.
I don't know if it's available within CCStd (I doubt it)

See the information starting on page 170 of the CCPro Users Guide (ts_72_CCpro_ug_en_rev2.pdf) for more details.

There's also an issue of migrating dependencies if your backing store started with an older (pre-7.2) version of TeamSite - for that you want to look at the information starting on page 102 of the Web Solutions Authoring Components Installation Guide (ts_72_author_install_rev1_en.pdf) for more details.

As near as I can tell, the dependency management feature only works with respect to DCRs and SP Page files - not for static HTML files.

Migrateduser

Great, thanks!