As stated in this comment the Backlinks view that ships with views2 does not seem to work.

I enabled the backlinks view in views 2, i checked the configuration to make sure it looks "ok". I have wiki pages that i've created that link to each other, but the backlinks block shows up empty. When i add the nid of the wiki page that has links to it into the argument field on the view edit / preview screen I also get no results.

I ran cron.php and checked site configuration > search to ensure that the site has been indexed.

I am not sure if this problem relates to using the freelinking module with the wiki (which uses the double bracket convention for creating links from one page to another) but it would seem that since this view was originally created for just this sort of application, that it would not matter how the link was created.

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dawehner’s picture

dawehner
Primary language German
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could you please try out the links with real links, < a href

i think here is the problem, not sure how to search system works here.

Additional could you please export your view, thx!

GregoryHeller’s picture

GregoryHeller commented

I checked and it is indeed the case that the backlinks view (default view that ships with views 2, no changes) DOES work if you use normal <a href="/some-node-here"> links.

It DOES NOT work with freelinking and the [[double bracket]] links.

Any idea if there is a way to fix this within the backlinks view, or more specifically the argument "Search: links to this node"

merlinofchaos’s picture

merlinofchaos commented

I think that would require freelinking (or maybe something on behalf of freelinking) implement hook_search to translate freelinks so that search gets the right information. Actually it's probably nodeapi $op = 'search'. Once search has the right information, Views can take advantage of it.

GregoryHeller’s picture

GregoryHeller commented

i created this issue over in the freelinking queue http://drupal.org/node/457776

eafarris’s picture

eafarris commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

Closing this. It's a problem with freelinking, not views. See the issue in #4.