I really like the facility in wikis where you can create links to nodes before the nodes exist. then, you click on the newly created link, and instead of getting a 404, you goto a blank page where you create the node/page for which you previously had created the link.

For example:
1. you are writing text in a page/node. You decide you need a new page called "More About Bob"
2. inside your text, you would create the link for this (in wiki it might look like: "... [more about bob]..." ) and then when you save the page, you have that link available.
3. click the link and since no page yet exists, you goto a blank page, which you edit and save.

would be a great way to write content fast, b/c you could just layout all your needed links, then go make them.

thanks,
m

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rport’s picture

rport commented

Perhaps you are looking for the Drupal module wikitools that appears to offer the features you are looking for. One such feature of wikitools is Custom wiki 404 pages: pick and choose from links to create, links to search, and an inline node add form.

Russ

rport’s picture

rport commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)
silurius’s picture

silurius commented
Status: Closed (fixed) » Active

Wikitools appears to support this only if the path begins with the string 'wiki'. It would be wonderful if the path could be anything you wanted. This would be especially useful, for me anyway, during site deployments and conversions.

Are there comparable modules I might have missed? (Freelinking, as another example of something close but not close enough, requires the use of CamelCase as opposed to standard hyperlinks).

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AmrMostafa commented
Category: feature » support
Status: Active » Fixed

Drupal core already provides the foundation for this feature, which is the ability to have custom 404 pages. For an example of how this is already utilized check the search 404 module. It will give you an idea of how this feature can be utilized (and in the same way search 404 module uses it, you can also use it to implement what you are describing).

For more informaton, please consider asking in the appropriate forum.

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.