How do I Use Permalinks?

If you don't setup any permalinks to your manuals, buckets or spaces then the ids for those items will be used in the url. In the image above you can see a url that has not permalinks, only ids.

1. Your account name.
2. The id for the space.
3. The id for the manual

In this example we have added a "screensteps" permalink to our space and a "screensteps_live" permalink to our manual.

First off, you don't need to use permalinks. They are totally optional. But, they do make your urls much more meaningful/descriptive.

There are also situations where they can be very useful. Look at the following scenario:

1. We have a manual with a permalink of "our_super_product".
2. We prepare to release version 2 of our super product so we have to completely redo the manual.
3. All of the links to our manual point to a manual with a permalink of "our_super_product". We now want those links to go to the new manual.
4. All we do is remove the "our_super_product" permalink from the old manual and apply it to the new manual. All of users will now see the new manual.