Links to Help - Version ...6 7 8 ... 9 ? -> latest (Wish)

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currently i am updating some teaching documents and i came across some old links to rhino 6 and 7 help… lot of work to fix - and it would be really great to have
“latest” and not only “8” in the url… so my work would be consistent also for V9…
Wish
https://docs.mcneel.com/rhino/latest/help/en-us/user_interface/rhino_window.htm
current
https://docs.mcneel.com/rhino/8/help/en-us/user_interface/rhino_window.htm

And as already mentioned somewhere else - please make

help.mcneel.com
mcneel.com/help

to be linked to the rhino help/documentation would be nice as well.

@theoutside you ask a few month ago, how to help teacher - above would be nice. thanks.

kind regards -tom

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will write this up thanks!

-K

RH-86129 updated documentation with “latest” not version number

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thanks.
ok to be precise … and thinking about it:
let s look at it with 8 being the current / latest version:

7 → should stay in the commandline
8 → should forward to “latest” (with some .htacess ?) - otherwise nobody will copy the “latest” address from the address-bar.
9 → should be “9” as long as it is WIP.

maybe this needs more tinkering then I thought initially.

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@Tom_P
I’m sorry. We can’t make the change because many existing hyperlinks on the web and in Rhino rely on the version number.

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Dear @kelvin
thanks for digging in.
it should be possible for the old / existing hyperlinks to function.

i want some level on top for example the line command - i would love to use - and this should be the address visible in the address field of the browser:

https://docs.mcneel.com/rhino/latest/help/en-us/commands/line.htm
                              ^^^^^^

currently in 2025 with Rhino 8 this should be the same as

https://docs.mcneel.com/rhino/8/help/en-us/commands/line.htm
                              ^

As long as Rhino 8 is the current version, there can be a redirect from

7 -> 7 (no redirect for older versions)
8 -> latest
9 -> 9 (no redirect for future versions)

As soon as the next version Rhino 9 comes out the redirect will change to

9 -> latest
5,6,7,8,10 -> no redirect

and internally the latest stuff gets archieved to Version 8

i am not a everyday webdeveloper but with the little knowledge i have about .htaccess - it would think this should be easy to implement.

thanks for having a detailed look at this - this would be a nice support for teaching / documentation.

please also see my second initial wish to have:

thanks

kind regards -tom

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@Tom_P

We have tried to redirect …latest… to …8… Unfortunately, it did not work as expected.

The current url to a topic looks like these:
https://docs.mcneel.com/rhino/<version>/help/<language>/commands/save.htm
https://docs.mcneel.com/rhino/<version>mac/help/<language>/commands/save.htm
<version> can be 4 to 9. <language> can be one of 13 languages.
There are many other documents stored in the <version> folder. I’m afraid it will take a lot of work to make everything function properly.

Many text editors, such as the free Notepad++, can find and replace text strings in files. You can replace /6/ and /7/ with /8/ in all files in just a few seconds. Perhaps you could give it a try.

-Kelvin