Incorrect permalinks

[medienbaecker]

The markdown field inserts permalinks in a different structure compared to the textarea field:

This is a problem in the frontend, where page links are not correct:

It also does not help to run permalinksToUrls() on the field.

[medienbaecker]

FYI: because this issue is quite the big deal in a current project I've fixed it like this for now:

src/components/Buttons/Link.js

submit: (values) => {
	this.input.$panel.dialog.close();
	delete values.title;
	values.text = values.text || contents || null;
+       values.href = values.href.replace('/@/page/', 'page://');
	this.insertLink(values);
}

Of course a better solution would be to reuse the textarea dialog but I generally have no idea what I'm doing.

[medienbaecker]

After some time studying Kirby's code I think I know now why/how textarea and writer insert different links:

• The link dialog's submit method manually replaces file:// with /@/file/ and page:// with /@/page/. The writer uses this component without touching the submit method.
• The textarea however extends the link dialog in the toolbar component and overwrites the submit method, removing the .replace.
• Currently the markdown field uses the $panel.dialog.open() method to open the dialog as it is. Extending the link dialog like the textarea does is not that easy, though. There seems to be a way to configure kirbyup to allow importing components from the Kirby code but for this to work I think we have to update kirbyup first and that didn't work out for me.

Maybe this helps someone in understanding the problem at hand. Or future-me at least.

[medienbaecker]

Update: the LinkDialog.vue got changed again and now the current language gets prepended.

I had to change my hacky fix to this:

submit: (values) => {
	this.input.$panel.dialog.close();
	delete values.title;
	values.text = values.text || contents || null;
-       values.href = values.href.replace('/@/page/', 'page://');
+       values.href = values.href.replace(/.*\/@\/page\//, 'page://');
	this.insertLink(values);
}

[medienbaecker]

Keeping this here for reference: https://forum.getkirby.com/t/how-should-plugins-handle-the-link-dialog-with-uuids/31887

[fabianmichael]

@medienbaecker Thanks for your contributions, are there any news on this?

[medienbaecker]

@fabianmichael Unfortunately not. I think you'll either have to build your own link dialog or overwrite the submit method (fully).