Auto-linking with Books not working

Auto-linking with Books not working

- Dale Siggerfjell の投稿
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v.2.8.3


I have created a Glossary in a course, and have a book in the same course, and topic. I've enabled and set the following to allow auto-linking with a few default entries:

  • Main Glossary, Simple Type
  • Auto link glossary entries: Yes
  • Book Filter -- Glossary auto-linking: On
  • Site Filter - Forced auto-linking
  • Purged all cache on server and browser
  • Default Theme - More

The auto-linking does not show up in the text in the book. I've looked all around for suggestions and I'm kind of at a loss.

Any help or suggestions?

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Re: Auto-linking with Books not working

- Kevin Wiliarty の投稿

Even with those settings in place, I think you still need to tick a box on each entry that you would like it to be auto-linked. On the editing screen for a given entry look for the checkbox labelled: "This entry should be automatically linked."


checkbox screenshot

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Re: Auto-linking with Books not working

- Dale Siggerfjell の投稿

Thanks for the reply, Kevin. I have actually done that for all the entires that I put into the glossary, but still has no effect. 悲しい

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Re: Auto-linking with Books not working

- Kevin Wiliarty の投稿

I guess that would have been too easy. 笑顔

For what it's worth, I have tested this in Moodle 2.8.5 (not having a 2.8.3 handy) and found that autolinking worked correctly in a book using both Clean and More. Have you tried different browsers? Does autolinking work in your course for other kinds of content such as pages and labels?

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Re: Auto-linking with Books not working

- Dale Siggerfjell の投稿
Thanks again for your reply. I have tried on 3 browers on 2 different OS and cleared site and browser caches.


Autolinking to resources only seems to work in the News Forum for the course, and not in Pages. I feel also like in Assignments making reference to other activities or resources has autolinking working. 

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Re: Auto-linking with Books not working

- Mary Cooch の投稿
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Is it not working with pre-existing words or does it not work with any new words that you add as well? I sometimes find that I need to add new words or simply go back in and do a minor edit of previous words/terms to "kickstart" the auto-linking. Just a thought. And presumably  you have tried with Clean theme (ie standard theme)?
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Re: Auto-linking with Books not working

- Dale Siggerfjell の投稿
So I think I figured it out thanks to your help - I tried the kickstarting method that you said and nothing was happening. I could get the autolinks into assignments but nothing else.


Then I realized that the glossary and the topic was hidden, and as soon as I made it visible the autolinking feature was enabled.


Thanks so much for your patience and assistance!