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CardName: Automatic Link Tracing Cost: Type: Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: It would be neat if each card page automatically detected which other cards has comments which linked to that card, and then provided a "Cards that link here" note near the top. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Multiverse Feedback None

Automatic Link Tracing
 
 
It would be neat if each card page automatically detected which other cards has comments which linked to that card, and then provided a "Cards that link here" note near the top.
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Updated on 21 Jan 2015 by Link

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2015-01-21 15:58:28: Link created and commented on the card Automatic Link Tracing
on 21 Jan 2015 by Link:

I don't know anything about programming/coding. I fear this might be a lot of work. It just seems like it might be a neat feature.
This can sort of be done by hand already, of course. I didn't know what color to make it.

on 21 Jan 2015 by Alex:

Mmm, "backlink search", aka "what links here". Makes sense.

The way to do it would be to make it that when anyone creates or edits a comment linking to other cards, at that point I go and update the other cards' lists of "what links to me".

It is indeed possible to do this manually, by searching comments for the card name or the card number, but quite a bit more fiddly.

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