With Scrivito, editors don’t need to worry about links and their up-to-dateness as the CMS manages them automatically. For example, when creating a page from within a navigation, the page can afterwards be moved to a different location without having to manually adjust the links pointing to any page involved in this operation. Linking a piece of text to a page is as easy as selecting the text and choosing the target via the Content Browser.

Developers can easily have sortable navigations generated automatically. See the Scrivito.ChildListTag documentation for details, or the tutorial on Building a Child Navigation Widget.

For those of you wanting to construct links programmatically, here’s an overview of Scrivito’s built-in support for handling them.

Scrivito has two attribute types for maintaining links, link and linklist. link is intended for maintaining single links, while linklist lets you create and maintain “see also” link lists, i.e. classical “related links” pointing to pages recommended for further reading.

Note that references to CMS-internal objects, be it pages, images or the like, can be maintained more efficiently using attributes of the reference and referencelist types since they’re not packed with mechanisms for handling URLs.

For dealing with the contents of a link attribute or an element of a linklist, Scrivito provides the Link class whose instances have the following attributes:

Note that obj and url are mutually exclusive as links can be either internal (obj) or external (url), not both. In addition to its attributes, a Link instance has two boolean methods for checking whether it’s an external or internal link, isExternal and isInternal, respectively.