Link Title Issue

[Timothy M.]

@aditus and my joint story Diego's Dance with Death is now complete so I wanted to change the status. This gave me an error related to the Link Title: https://gayauthors.org/story/timothy-m/diego’s-dance-with-death/

When I first posted the story, the Automatically use title box was ticked. I didn't think about the warning below: This is the title used in URL to the story. Only letters, numbers, and dashes allowed.

So the Link Title now has the word Diego's in it. When I wanted to change the status to Complete, I got an error, saying: That value is not allowed.

Can I just remove the ' from Diego's in the URL or will this cause problems ? 

 

[Timothy M.]

Removing the ' in the Link Title worked, but of course now any links to the previous version of the story give an error. Like the one in @aditus new status update.  Sorry, Adi.

[Myr]

The ' is back in the link for the moment, so the old links work.

Do not edit it again for right now.  I've reported the bug to the programmer.  Always use the automatic link title.

The bug, by the way, is that the link title is supposed to strip punctuation on its own.

[Timothy M.]

8 hours ago, Myr said:

The ' is back in the link for the moment, so the old links work.

Do not edit it again for right now.  I've reported the bug to the programmer.  Always use the automatic link title.

The bug, by the way, is that the link title is supposed to strip punctuation on its own.

Thanks, Myr. I don't have to touch the story again, since it's complete. I only removed the ' because I couldn't change status otherwise. However, the problem (and the subsequent teasing from @droughtquake ) did cause me to write a short epilogue to the delight of the readers. Every cloud has a silver lining, eh?

I'm glad you say the Link Title should have removed the punctuation on its own, since I felt a little foolish for not heeding the very clear warning below the box.   The strange thing is I didn't get a warning about the Link Title when I posted the story initially.

Sorry about digging out all these weird bugs.

[Myr]

I'll probably remove the link title option altogether going forward.  It was there for legacy reasons. A simple ' shouldn't crash the system. lol.