Find out where a document is used

Experience Manager (PaaS/OnPrem)
1

Hi,

Is it possible to find out on which sites (with url) a document is used?
How can I do this?

Kind regards
Peter

2

Hi,
if with sites you mean channels, then the easier way is to use the view button in the document editor [1]

About the url, you can print the document url (aka HST link [2]) directly in your in templates.

For more advanced usage of document urls, you can play with the HST link creator [3]

[1] https://www.onehippo.org/library/concepts/channels/view-a-document-in-a-channel.html
[2] https://www.onehippo.org/library/concepts/links-and-urls/hst-2-urls.html
[3] http://javadoc.onehippo.org/12.0/hippo-site-toolkit/org/hippoecm/hst/core/linking/HstLinkCreator.html

3

giacomolm

    November 17

Hi,

if with sites you mean channels, then the easier way is to use the view button in the document editor [1]

bit more info, [1] is using a call to [3] to find all the possible URLs for a document

Regards Ard

4

Thanks @giacomolm and @ard.schrijvers. But if I use the method which is described in [1] and call f.e. http://127.0.0.1:8080/site/_cmsrest/documents/8f5a3a3c-3abb-41e8-8c43-8dfc10e237fc/channels I get this error:

Cannot proceed _cmsrest request: header 'X-CMS-CS-ID' missing

What do I need to do to get this working?

Thanks.
Peter

5

Hey Peter,

you can only use that rest call in the context of the cms (you need an SSO)

Most likely you want to get all the URLs for a document in your site webapp code, right? In that case you need to use the HstLinkCreator api (something like get all canonical links)

HTH,

Regards Ard

1 Like
6

Hi,

thanks for your information.
A colleague already opened an issue in the JIRA Board. The answer was that there is no way to get all URLs where a document is used except the document is the primarydocument of the page in the channel manager.

Is there no other way to get the URLs?

Kind regards
Peter