Checking Course Links in the Catalog

When investigating what programs/courses a specific course is linked to, the Links button within the Navigate tab will produce a list if the course is linked via a course selector to a program table or a requisite list.

The toolbar section showing tabs for Home, Navigate, Review, Publish, Versions, Security, and My Toolbar, with the Navigate tab active and icons displayed for Open, Back, Forward, Up, Subitems, Home, Favorites, Links, and Search.

Select the course within the content tree and click the Links button within the Navigate tab.

A drop down will display a list under the heading Items that refer to the selected item if the selected course is linked to any program tables or requisite lists throughout the catalog.  When an item from this list is selected, it will also be selected within the content tree and the item will open within the display window.  You can preview the item in another tab after selection to see it as it will appear published in a live catalog.

The Navigate tab view showing a folder tree with the ACC 105 item selected. The Links menu is open, displaying a panel titled 'Items that refer to the selected item' with a list of referring course list items.

The Links button will also work to see if a content page is being linked to/referenced by another page within the catalog.  This can be helpful if you are updating a Rename field and need to find where the page is referenced to update the link. Selecting the page from the Links List will open it and allow you access to the content in order to update the referenced link.

The Navigate tab view showing a folder tree with the Checking Course Links item selected. The Links menu is open, displaying a panel with items that refer to the selected item and a list of items the selected item refers to.

When using the Links button, we are only looking for items that are listed within the Items that refer to the selected item, we can ignore the list that is within the Items that the selected item refer to. This list is back end renderings and features that create the display page but do not concern us when searching for links.

If there are no items within the catalog that reference the selected item, "None" will appear within the Items that refer to the selected item list.

The Links menu opens showing a section titled 'Items that refer to the selected item' displaying none, and a section titled 'Items that the selected item refer to' listing multiple linked items.

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