Something we would like an ability to do is insert a relative link in Composer. This is useful when we're linking to a story with the same Website URL segment and structure.
For example, rather than having to have unique absolute links that include the domain (https://www.example.com/news/2019/10/23/my-example-url-segment-here), I would like to just insert a relative path to the link (ie. "/news/2019/10/23/my-example-url-segment-here"), which would allow that link to work on all of our group's sites if the story existed on them.
Currently, a red box appears in the "Enter link address" field if the full path isn't entered, it seems. Our current workaround may be a raw HTML block for the moment.
Thanks!
Troy Blevins
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We shipped this in our Composer 2.2 release that went to Sandbox on August 29th and Production on September 3rd.
Hello, thank you for checking in. The prior updates predate my time at Arc but I can say affirmatively that this is slated for our roadmap for the first half of this year. I welcome any additional feedback or insights to better understand your unique use cases!
Hi - any update on this since last year when it was targeted for Production in March 2021?
Thank you for the update!
Troy
Hi Troy,
We are planning to ship this to production by the end of March.
Thanks
Ryan
Hi there,
I'm looking to see if there may be an update on this Arc Idea. I see it's in the "Planned" stage, but wasn't sure when we may be able to anticipate this in an upcoming release.
Thanks!
I'd like to add a little more context to this issue to bump in up in consideration. We struggle with this issue daily. We have a content team that creates shared content for multiple (60+) websites, but can't properly link to older content or pages on the websites because Composer doesn't allow for relative URLs via a hyperlink or in the Interstitial Links field. We don't want to send all site visitors to a website that they aren't even visiting. We want to keep them on the website where they are reading the article. We created a hack for some of our websites, but it's not going to work for our new ones due to limitations of not being able to customize the code.