Storing references for unroutable content items

Questions
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Consider the following site structure:

  • Site
    • Home
      • Page
    • Data
      • Tags
        • Tag
    • Settings

Assume that:

  • The Home content item has a Culture & Hostname configured
  • The Page document type has a Multinode Treepicker for selecting instances of Tag

In this structure, the Data and Settings content items and their children have URLs that are “unroutable”. This is typically fine, as these items should never be accessed from the front end of the website anyway.

However, this also prevents them from generating references (in Umbraco 13 at least). It would be very useful for content editors to be able to open a Tag and look at the Info tab to see where it has been used.

I can think of a couple ways to work around this…

  • Assign a Culture & Hostname to the Data and Settings items
  • Structure the website so that the Data and Settings items have valid URLs by default (e.g. make them children of Home)

… but it seems odd that this feature is tied to an item having a routable URL.

Has anyone come up with a novel way to avoid this limitation?

Aside: Does anyone know if you can disable the “Relate to original” toggle when copying a content item, or set it to false by default?