Re: Links break when you archive; what are work arounds?

[Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>]

"Emin.shopper Martinian.shopper" <emin.shopper@gmail.com> writes:

> Thanks, that sounds like a good idea. But how do you use ID links? I
> see an option for descriptive links and literal links but not id
> links. I have org-mode version 6.34c, is that too old?

I'm not sure if that is too old but I don't think so.  You need to
customize the variable 'org-modules' and enable org-id which generates
globally unique ids.

This automatically adds the property id entry when you create a link for
a task using 'org-id-get-create'

-Bernt

>
> Thanks,
> -Emin
>
> On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 10:14 AM, Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca> wrote:
>> This works for me when I use id links.
>>
>> I created two tasks
>>
>> ,----[ todo.org ]
>> | * Test task
>> | * TODO Test target
>> `----
>>
>> Then linked test task to test target by doing C-c l on '* Test target'
>> and copying the link into the body of '* Test Task' with C-c C-l
>>
>> This gives me this
>>
>> ,----[ todo.org ]
>> | * Test link
>> |   [[id:c517f8d3-9cf3-4d86-b92d-b544874ef0af][Test target]]
>> | * TODO Test target
>> |   :PROPERTIES:
>> |   :ID:       c517f8d3-9cf3-4d86-b92d-b544874ef0af
>> |   :END:
>> `----