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Features / Usability


Using Namespaces along with Backlinks

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Hi there!
I'd like to ask for help in the following matter:
I'm trying to use WYSIWYG editor, namespaces and backlinks, but some problems arise:
Let's say I have a page A:_:Home

Then I edit that same page creating a wiki-link to the not-yet-existing page "B". In source code this corresponds to
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((B))
.

Once I've finished editing A:_:Home I save and click on B link. This way Tiki automatically creates A:_:B page. This is a pretty useful features since it allows even not-skilled users to create new pages with the correct namespace.
However once A:_:B page has been created, no backlinks are present in there.

I've noticed however that if now I edit page A:_:Home adding a wiki-link to "A:_:B" (in source code this corresponds to
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((A:_:B|B))
) , the link works fine and moreover a backlinks from A:_:B to A:_:Home is generated.


Of course it is a bit too much to ask a non-skilled user to perform the following procedure:
- Create a wiki-link from A:_:Home to B
- Click on the link to create automatically page A:_:B
- Go Back in page A and edit the link, pasting as wiki-link the full name of page B, "A:_:B", instead of just "B".

Do you see any way of obtaining the result I'm trying to achieve (easiness of pages and links creation along with backlinks working correctly) in a way that even a not-skilled user can do and would possibly be willingly to do?

I think one possibility would be to edit backlinks plugin to recognize B as well as a valid link to A:_:B (in this context, taking into account the namespace of the page on which the link reside).

Another possible solution would be to have WYSIWYG plugin work in a little different way: if I am in page A:_:Home and I write a link towards page B it should automatically translate the link in B.

Thank you very much