Help Wanted: Document the option to use _redirect in place of team name in a post permalink

[mickmister]

Previously we needed to include the team name of the post when constructing a post's permalink. Since Mattermost version 5.16, we can use "_redirect" in place of the team name.

Below are two post permalinks. One has the team name "core" and the other uses "_redirect"

https://community.mattermost.com/core/pl/jcj11chi1pg85jpp8difhsj4eh
https://community.mattermost.com/_redirect/pl/jcj11chi1pg85jpp8difhsj4eh

This is useful for integrations because they don't need to fetch the relevant team whenever they want to create some post's permalink.

[haardikdharma10]

This indeed needs to be documented, thanks @mickmister. Can I get help with the file to be modified? (/cc @cwarnermm, @justinegeffen)

[cwarnermm]

Great question, @haardikdharma10! I've asked this question in the Mattermost Hacktoberfest 2021 community channel.

[cwarnermm]

@mickmister - It's not immediately clear to me where this documentation update would live on developers.mattermost.com. (One thing this site really needs is a search mechanism!) Would you be open to adding details to this PR on the specific page(s) of the site that would benefit most from an update?

[mickmister]

@cwarnermm I'm thinking we should add a new "Tips and Tricks" page in the "Development Guides" subfolder https://developers.mattermost.com/integrate/admin-guide. This can be the first and only tip on the new page for now 🙂 What do you think?

[mickmister]

Note that this applies to basically all integration types (basically anything that could be creating permalinks to posts). So I would make it something like "When you need to create a permalink to a post..."

[cwarnermm]

Love it, @mickmister! Are you open to creating the PR for this update?

[mickmister]

I'll leave as help wanted for now