In N2CMS, can you disable the prompt to 'Update links leading to' the item you just edited?

Question

I am using N2CMS to manage the content of my site without using the page routing from N2. Hence when I edit a piece of content, it's quite useless when N2 asks me: "Update links leading to..." "Add permanent redirect at previous URL?". Can I disable this behaviour?

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 01 '13 at 17:34

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Converting Page into Part is inherently bad idea. It may be temporary fix for the problem you have, but it will bounce back at you in a bad way.

Instead, you can do this

Turn LinkTracker off in web.config

linkTracker enabled="false" permanentRedirectEnabled="false"

Copy CommandFactory.cs from N2 Source into your solution, and rename it to MyCommandFactory.cs. Add Service replacement attribute
```
[Service(typeof(ICommandFactory), Replaces = typeof(CommandFactory))]
```

In a constructor, change this line

updateReferences = new MyUpdateReferencesCommand();

Write your own empty Update reference command class

public class MyUpdateReferencesCommand : UpdateReferencesCommand
{
    public override void Process(CommandContext state)
    {
    }
}

edited Apr 01 '13 at 17:34

Michael Celey

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answered Jan 30 '13 at 09:11

Dejan Milicic

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In my project, I am not using any of the N2 routing or templating. I have written my own wrapper classes to get the content from the N2 object model and place it in existing pages. It seems to make no difference whether I use [PageDefinition] or [PartDefinition] apart from the interface used to edit them (actually [PartDefinition] is more appropriate interface for the content in question). Can you tell me what problems I might face in the future going down this route? – Tom Bull Jan 30 '13 at 13:08
Well, that depends on extent of your replacements. If you replaced most of the functionalities of N2 with your own, then you will probably have no problems. – Dejan Milicic Jan 30 '13 at 13:23

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 28 '13 at 16:57

As far as I can see from the source code, N2 expects always to show you the "Update links leading to..." page if the ContentItem is a Page (i.e. [PageDefinition] attribute or .IsPage = true) and the address has been updated. The solution in our case was to make the 'page' in question into a 'part' using [PartDefinition].

In N2CMS, can you disable the prompt to 'Update links leading to' the item you just edited?

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