Prompt before creating redirects or updating subpage slugs

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We’ve been discussing the current behavior of autoCreateRedirects and autoUpdateSlugs in TYPO3. Right now, TYPO3 automatically creates redirects and updates all subpage slugs immediately after a slug change — and only afterwards offers the option to revert those actions. This can sometimes lead to timeouts when many pages are affected, and it doesn’t feel logical that TYPO3 performs such extensive operations before asking whether they’re actually desired.
Would it be possible, either through configuration or as a new feature, to introduce a prompt that appears after changing a slug, asking whether to:

  • Create redirects, and/or
  • Update all subpage slugs?

That way, editors could confirm or cancel these operations before TYPO3 executes them.

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Hi @antonbrixtoro!

This sounds like something you should open an issue about.

Optimizations that work well for smaller data sets don’t always work well when subjected to very large data sets. I know the page tree has been faced with similar issues throughout its lifetime.