# @autodocs create broken links for aliases

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/autodocs-create-broken-links-for-aliases/121522>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** documenter\
**Created:** [October 21, 2024, 6:17am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/autodocs-create-broken-links-for-aliases/121522 "2024-10-21T06:17:24Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 21, 2024, 6:17am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/autodocs-create-broken-links-for-aliases/121522/1 "2024-10-21T06:17:24Z")

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Hi, I wonder what is the good practice for documenting aliases and using Documenter.@autodocs. Let say I export both `outer` and `⊗` such that

```julia
const ⊗ = outer

```

I don’t want to add a docstring to `⊗` because I want users to get `outer`’s docstring in the REPL when searching `⊗`, and I don’t want to duplicate their common docstring.

But I want both names to appear in the “exported names section” created by `Documenter.@autodocs`, and I would like that `⊗` links to `outer`’s docstring in the html page, or otherwise, that it does not link.

The issue is that currently, the link of `⊗` is broken (because the symbol has no docstring I guess).

I don’t even know if I can filter `⊗` from @autodocs as `===(outer, ⊗)` is true.