Link Status Report Not Respecting Hidden Categories
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Gerard
When using the Link Status report and filtering using "Visible," it's ignoring the fact that the parent category is hidden. I believe this should also apply when the parent category is hidden.
Currently, visible articles under a hidden parent category still appear on the report.
This incorrect inflates the number of broken links, especially for docs that are intended to be archived and under a hidden category.
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Vidhya
Hi Gerard
Since the articles and categories are validated irrespective of the visibility, even hiding individual articles will be considered for link analytics.
As mentioned previously the visibility of the article is only considered on the user website.
Gerard
Vidhya: thanks Vidhyai think that should be a product enhancement then
Caroline Tabach
Vidhya Hi, I request you to consider the use case to find a solution to not check links for pages which are deprecated or archived but still not deleted, where we do not required link checking.
Vidhya
Hi Gerard
The articles and categories are treated as an individual entries from link status. if an individual article/category is hidden we displayed it as hidden. we are validating all the articles inside the documentation section irrespective of visibility option.
Visibility is only for the user website .
Vidhya
Hi Gerard
The articles and categories are treated as an individual entries from link status. if an individual article/category is hidden we displayed it as hidden. we are validating all the articles inside the documentation section irrespective of visibility option.
Visibility is only for the user website .
Gerard
Vidhya: Thanks Vidhya.
This makes the Link Status report a little more difficult for us to use because when we archive articles, we don't hide individual articles, but we have a hidden category and put the articles there.
So is the only solution right now to hide every single article we archive so it doesn't show up on the report?
Caroline Tabach
Vidhya: Maybe there can be a setting - check links on hidden pages, that if we need we can turn off?
Vidhya
Caroline Tabach: We will definitely share your suggestions with our Development team and make the necessary enhancement at the earliest.
Caroline Tabach
The link checker checks pages not yet live, and hidden pages, which means that pages we need are not checked