gocept.linkchecker 3.0a7

Check links in your Plone site using a link monitoring server.

What is gocept.linkchecker?

gocept.linkchecker is a Plone product which both monitors the availability of links (URLs) within the content of the site and shows which objects are referencing each other.

High level overview

A coloured and grouped list of all links of the site gives a detailed and high level overview on the status of the links.

Author and object level overview

Additional reporting is available to the content authors who can see their personal link status page (My links) as well as an overview over all links in one object (Links tab of object).

Referenced by

A portlet shows whether an object is referenced by another object (due to HTML anchor or img tag).

Replace functionality

Directly edit URLs of (broken) links from the overview without having to locate the link deep in a document.

How to install or upgrade

Use the general Plone installation mechanism that you’re familiar with (Control Panel or Generic Setup).

Acknowledgements

The initial development was sponsored by the Bertelsmann Foundation (http://www.bertelsmann-stiftung.de/) in late 2003.

The bi-directional reference management was sponsored by the Land Office of Criminal Investigation of a German state in 2004-2005.

The upgrade to Plone 3 including eggification was sponsored by Syslab in 2008.

Maik Derstappen of Inqbus has contributed by asking questions, hiring us, and providing patches.

What? Problems?

If you encounter any problems there’s a public bugtracker .

Commercial support is available from gocept. Contact us via email or by phone: [phone].

Changelog

3.0a7 (2011-02-22)

• Force hashing a URL to encode to utf-8 first so that the md5 hexdigest can be applied.

3.0a6 (2011-02-14)

• Significant performance improvements for displaying the overview statistics and browsing links by status.

• Significant improvements on continuous re-retrieving script for whole site.

• Readability improvements when browsing links by status.

3.0a5 (2011-02-08)

• Fix for dealing with objects that are being created from a portal factory.

3.0a4 (2011-02-08)

• Remedy another brown-bag release: CHANGES.txt was missing in the manifest after restructuring in a3.

3.0a3 (2011-02-08)

• Fix manifest to include .py files from non-Python-package directories.

• Update setup.py to include a somewhat sensible long description.