Finding where a page is linked to in Umbraco
# help-with-umbracos
si26
08/17/2023, 1:40 PMHi so my colleague wants to switch a Document Type on a page which is causing a bit of a headache, and wants to keep the same url. The only way to do this (without redirects) is to set the current page name to '...-OLD', and set up a new page with the old page name. This is all fine except the origianl page is linked all over the site (over 200 pages). Is there a way to find which of these pages the original page is linked to, so all the links can be changed to the new page?
si26
08/17/2023, 1:42 PM^ sorry a bit of a convoluted question, I think it should be possible to query the database, but I'm not too sure how build the sql query string for it...
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Corné Hoskam
08/17/2023, 1:47 PMHi @si26! On the newer versions of Umbraco you are able to view the relations on the document type itself under the Info tab. For Umbraco 8 and below, you could make use of the package that inspired the actual integration for U9+ called Nexu!
https://our.umbraco.com/packages/backoffice-extensions/nexu/
This will however only show the relations, not actually allow you to change them, so if you are talking about changing 200 pages, doing so the database route may still be a valid option
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si26
08/17/2023, 1:51 PMAh nice thats really good to know, thanks Corne!
si26
08/17/2023, 2:04 PM^ out of interest have you used this on an Umbraco cloud project before? I'm pretty new to these type of projects but guessing it would be the same install process, or is there anything to watch out for?
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Corné Hoskam
08/17/2023, 2:17 PMHaven't tried this in particular on Cloud, but the proces shouldn't be different than on another host, whether you go the Nexu or the Database route! 🙂
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Amalie Wowern
08/18/2023, 8:26 AMWhich version of umbraco is it?
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si26
08/21/2023, 9:29 AM@Amalie Wowern We're on Umbraco 8 at the moment (unfortunately haven't had the chance to upgrade yet)