Altus PermaLinks

In the case where you would like to link to content in docs from an external location and you want to not have to change your link as the content moves around, you are encouraged to use an Altus PermaLink. These links are in the form:

https://altus.to/keyword

where the keyword part of the URL is a unique identifier.

To register your Altus PermaLink proceed to the Altus Altus Permalink table:

This screen displays the configuration of a Permalink

This service works by:

  • The altus.to DNS zone currently with NameCheap is pointing to this Azure FrontDoor Service in the AltusLOB subscription
  • The FrontDoor service is set to receive the GET requests and rewrites the URL sending it to an Azure Function written in NodeJS.
  • The Azure function calls the Util-Permalink Flow in the ALtus Prod Dataverse.
  • The Flow queries the Permalink table for a matching record, and then responds with a 200 and sets the Location response header to the contents of the URL
  • The Azure function then changes the Status Code from a 200 to a 301 and finally responds to the user.
Edit this page