Broken links in migrated documents within SharePoint library

Question

Hello, We are about to migrate documents from one SPO tenant to another, however the source site has many documents with embedded links pointing to another document within another library. For example a document might contain an embedded like (https://xyz.com/sites/test/Shared%20Documents/test.docx?d=we5bd2c83f34440fb9992223c8402aec4). Now once migrated, the destination sites document id would change.

For the first part of the URL, we could set up a local redirect, however the ID will be different and will end up as a broken link. We have numerous such cases and manual fix might not be a solution.

Do we have any solutions for this problem?

Thanks

Pradeep

Answer 1

Document ID is automatically generated by system in each tenant when the document is uploaded. It is unique and cannot be changed by users.

So, I suggest you use embedded link, such as https://xyz.com/sites/test/Shared%20Documents/test.docx in the document.

To bulk edit embedded link in the document, you could try to use VBA.

Please start a new discussion with Office Development so that you can get dedicated support on this issue.

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