Carol, Eliot, or anyone familiar with the inner workings of the Long-Short display mod.

Link-rot is the problem... even though we are using a modified long-short display mod on our site, I think what I found affects everyone using the long-short display mod.

The problem is how the short-display record links are being created. The way the links are created there is no reference to the actual record ID, the short list links are a dynamic link that changes every time a new record is added.

This creates a major link-rot problem if someone form another site links to a short-list link. Actually, it is a problem even if a site links to the long-record display because the long record link is calculated dynamically also.

If I have my thinking cap on straight, I believe all that needs to be changed is to add a reference to the actual record ID when the links are created. However, as with most problems it usually isn’t as easy as you first think.

I am ready to start working on the code, but thought I would first get some feedback and see if anyone had already corrected this.

Cheers!

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Larry "NgtCrwlr" Mingus
www.makeitsimple.com