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Is there a natural way to relate cases to a wiki page?

I created an outline of cases for a new feature that I'm working on. Part of that feature requires me to make changes to the database. I had been putting my notes about db changes right into the cases, but I realized that the it was hard to parse my notes to figure out exactly what I had done.

I decide to create a wiki to document the process and came up with a great set of pages to track the changes I needed to make to the database. This is working really well and is much better than adding notes to a bunch of different cases.

Now, however, I want to "link" my cases to the wiki in a way that says "documentation for these cases is at this wiki page" and vice versa, "this documentation is related to these cases."

I suppose I could create notes with hyperlinks in cases and the wiki so that they point to each other, but I'm wondering if there's more integrated way to accomplish this task.

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The wiki editor's Insert->Link menu item allows you to add a link to a case to your wiki article. A link back to that article will then automatically be added to the case.

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Ooh magic. That's pretty much exactly what I was looking for. Do you know if DevMental's solution offers an advantage over what you get out of the box? – Ben McCormack♦ Nov 12 2010 at 22:45
@Ben: Apparently, their plugin gathers all the case references into the sidebar of the wiki editor, and there appears to be an option to add a reference to a case with the click of a button. Kinda neat, but I don't know that it's worth paying for. You can just keep a list of related cases at the top (or bottom or wherever is convenient) of your wiki article for easy access to them all. By the way, if you remove the link to the case from the wiki article, the link to the article disappears from the case just as "magically" as it appeared. I'd say you already have what you're looking for. – Greg Saven♦ Nov 12 2010 at 23:16
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 To expand on what @Greg said, you could also play around with some javascript wizardry in the BugMonkey plugin to search for a standard "list of relevant cases" block. Once you have it, you can easily pull them out and do whatever you want with them...like put them in the side-bar. – cdeszaq Nov 15 2010 at 19:19
@cdeszaq, any idea how to find the "list of relevant cases" in BugMonkeyScript? – Avi D Jan 6 2011 at 10:45
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It looks like there's a plugin for that. The Wiki Article: Case Relationships plugin.

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 It should be noted that DevMental Software does charge a fee for this plugin. – Greg Saven♦ Nov 12 2010 at 16:48

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