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Link Shortening

Currently all Connections links are tremendously long, it would be good to have a link shortener, which would: (1) Provide links so that the community name can be "read" from URL link, making the community URL link "readable" for every user. (2) Make all links shorter but maintaining part of the original product URL.

  • Guest
  • Jul 25 2018
  • Future Consideration
01. General/Multiple Areas
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  • Guest commented
    13 May, 2020 08:24am

    Good suggestion, but I suppose that this will require a link shortener that is internal and unique to the company? I love Bitly, but it's outside the firewall. But in this case it would be similar to using Google Translate for sensitive intellectual capital.

  • Guest commented
    5 May, 2019 04:30pm

    We have to create individual shortlinks with something like ibm.biz or bit.ly and we know serviced like YouTube can manage things like youtu.be so perhaps Connections could create a conn.ect/... alternative?

  • Guest commented
    16 Nov, 2018 05:20pm

    All URL's in connections are extremely long... we have overcome this for communities by creating a redirect to the "community short URL"(which is still to long).

    Our redirect allows users to use this shorter URL  community.domain.com\communityname

    however there is still a need to provide deep links that use a shortened url  for content items like wiki pages, files,blogs,library content and forum entries

    for example:

     community.domain.com\communityname\location of content item\GUID of Content Item

     community.domain.com\KOL\wiki\Wa6c939734130_42b9_b11d_99d11c3379e9

  • Guest commented
    6 Aug, 2018 02:44am

    +1000 - the URLS are ridiculously long, and making friendlier URLs - or at least shorter ones, would be more than a small nice-to-have. 

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