How to Avoid Broken Links

[Julie Tholen]

Dear Confluencites,

I have been advised that in order to avoid broken links, I should link to the Page ID of a page versus the Page Name / Title. Is this true?

If so, it seems to be fairly cumbersome, as so far as I can tell, I have to have two sessions open, go into page history, copy the Page Id and then and paste that into the URL. However, I find that I am then linking to the Page History and not Page View (I did find some code that will deal with this issue, but it looks like I would have to paste it in on each page, but not sure about that.)

So in short, I need to know if it is worth the effort OR is Confluence smart enough to retain links when pages are moved or reordered.

Your help is greatly appreciated.

[AnnWorley · Accepted solution]

If you insert the title from the insert link dialog and choose the title then the title will change automatically on the page - no need to use the pageId:

Here are the pages before and after the moves/reorders and title changes:

Thanks,

Ann