A co-worker of mine create an article as a test, and subsequently deleted it. However, it didn't disappear from our live page.
I have tried creating another article, with the same UID and archiving it, as you can see below.
I am unsure how to proceed, and would appreciate some help!
Hello @lucas
Welcome to the Prismic community, and thanks for reaching out to us.
We had already discussed this issue before and addressed it in the following thread:
https://community.prismic.io/t/when-does-cache-expire-uid-history/874/2
Please check my colleague Levi's response and let me know if you need further assistance.
Thanks,
Priyanka
Hey @Priyanka
I did as instructed on Error: This value is already used by another document
Issue is -- 0 documents show with slug "test", even so, "test" article still lives on the blog.
Second screenshot is a test to troubleshoot, I can find another article w/ slug.
The test slug however doesnt seem to exist
Hello @lucas,
I apologize for the late response. I was out of the office last week.
I have checked your repository and found that you don't have any test UID documents, so API is returning 0 documents which is correct because you already have removed, & unlocked an old UID value from a document. The URL is still live with this UID means we save all the previous UID values of a given document so that your old links won’t be broken on your site when you change a UID value.
Setup a rerouting system (recommended)
For this, you need to make a check in your routing system. If the UID used isn’t the current UID value, something like this:
if (uid !== document.uid)
Then redirect to the url that uses the current UID.
This will ensure that old links aren’t broken and that all old links will redirect to the current one.
I hope this answers your questions.
Thanks,
Priyanka