Sitecore Broken Links warning dialog
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Even in the era of Content Management (emphasis on the “management”) broken links or references continue to plague content authors. Sitecore is kind enough to provide a “links database” which is a specialized search index that handles all sorts of management tasks, but also will have a record of incoming references to a content item. If that item is about to be deleted, the user is prompted and given a number of options of how to alter or ignore all the incoming links to that item before being allowed to delete it.