When copying course content created in Canvas to a new course, we are seeing some link URLs substituting $WIKI_REFERENCE$ after the base URL before the exact page when the page is copied. Sometimes the link no longer works when this happens. Can anyone shed light on why this happens?
Nancy, hmmm... I haven't heard of this before. I'm going to share this with the Canvas Developers and Canvas Admins groups in the Community to see if they can help answer this question. Something else you might consider is submitting this to Canvas Support to see if they can help figure out what's going on.
We have had things like that happen on imports when you do a Selected Content import. So if you import a page but not all the pages it links to or if there is a link to a file but you don't import files.
We have noticed this too even when you export the content and import it into a new shell. It seems only to affect Wikipedia more than any other item.
Were you able to find an answer to your question? I am going to go ahead and mark this question as answered because there hasn't been any more activity in a while so I assume that you have the information that you need. If you still have a question about this or if you have information that you would like to share with the community, by all means, please do come back and leave a comment. Also, if this question has been answered by one of the previous replies, please feel free to mark that answer as correct.
Robbie
In the end, we had to manually recreate the links and the next time the course copied, the links were correct. We wrote it off as a cyber-glitch and moved on. Thanks all who took the time to answer. This case can be closed
In the end, we had to manually recreate the links and the next time the course copied, the links were correct. We wrote it off as a cyber-glitch and moved on. Thanks all who took the time to answer. This case can be closed