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| 5/28/2006 5:37 PM |
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Because I use TabPath, it already concatenates the SpecialsOfTheWeek part unfortunately. The code might be able to be modified to insert a - before each capital letter (except for the start).
There is no option to make it all lowercase currently, but it would be an easy change, is there a reason to do so? |
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| 5/28/2006 5:46 PM |
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Thanks! I guess you are right, there is no "real" reason for all lowercase ... just looks better  .
Any news on the File Manager issue?
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| 3/28/2007 4:50 AM |
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Posted By smcculloch on 5/28/2006 5:37 PM
Because I use TabPath, it already concatenates the SpecialsOfTheWeek part unfortunately. The code might be able to be modified to insert a - before each capital letter (except for the start).
There is no option to make it all lowercase currently, but it would be an easy change, is there a reason to do so?
Scott, I have just tested the URL Rewriter module and - being impressed with it - I have decided to use it on my live DNN site. Many thanks for this excellent addition to DNN!
This (old) thread touches upon the only aspect of the Friendly URL rewriter that I think can be improved (and should be improved as it would have a very positive impact on the ability of a search engine to index any DNN page which has more than one word in the 'page name' or TabPath). I am of course talking about introcuing the possiblity of a hyphen being kept in the firendly URL. Have you had a chance to look into modifying the code to - as you state above - insert a hyphen before each capital letter (except for the start)?
As for the other point (making it all lowercase) I do not see any need for this, certainly in the eyes of the serach engines who do not differentiate between URLs that have the same path but different capitliastion of some letters in the URL.
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| 3/28/2007 6:09 AM |
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There is probably only so much we can do with the TabPath before going to a user assigned URL.
For example, putting a hiphen in, you would imagine that PropertyAgent becomes Property-Agent (using a capital to insert a hiphen)
The problem occurs if you had a page called IT, it would become I-T, which is probably not correct.
I believe I can assign URLs that are assigned by a user/admin as page alias's, similar to portal alias's. This would definately be the most flexible. |
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| 3/28/2007 6:09 AM |
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I second Eoghano regarding its a great solution and inserting the hyphen.
Though it sounds like the best solution would be to see if the operation of the TabPath in the core can be altered. Trying to work out where to put the '-' based on capitals is looking for trouble. Imagine if the page name is something like "ABC News".
Scott which way do you think this issue should be taken?
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| 3/28/2007 8:31 AM |
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Hi Tom
Nice little hack, but I agree with your comment its only really viable for small sites. I am wanting to get the functionality happening on about 30 sites so it would take a bit tooo long for me to implement. I'm probably too lazy as well ;-)
I am thinking lobbying the Core to get the Tabpath changed is probably the way to go.
My thought is that it could be changed so that it operates as it does now (so it doesn't break anything existing) but also checks a setting stored in say web.config which stores the character to replace the space with.
Taking this to the next step you could build in other options this way, such as converting to lower case.
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| 3/28/2007 9:25 AM |
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| Yes Anthony, that's probably the way to go, but I'm afraid it will take a long time for the core changes to be made. |
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| 3/30/2007 7:35 AM |
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I am 100% for the hyphen in URL. I understand the problem with capital letter (I personnally have something similar to ABC News). Why not letting people decide if they use this system (and find a trick to change the name ABC news to something else), or to be able to specify by ourself the new friendly url ??? Like the example above (Hacking Hyphens into DNN URLs) ??
For me, this feature is ESSENTIAL, because it is the key of good indexing in search engine...
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| 3/30/2007 8:56 AM |
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OK where do you find the reference in Google about using a hyphen in place of a space, anyone got a URL?
TIA
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Posted By webpc on 3/30/2007 8:56 AM
OK where do you find the reference in Google about using a hyphen in place of a space, anyone got a URL?
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It's here on the blog of Matt Cutts, a senior member of Google's anti-spam team:
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| 3/31/2007 10:56 AM |
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| See above DV. By the time Scott "grabs" TabPath the space has already been stripped. |
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| 3/31/2007 3:54 PM |
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| That's by design. The dash gets stripped just as the space does. |
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| 4/10/2007 5:56 PM |
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This may be going too far, but can we not run a process that modify's the tabpath value in the table? Is this something that can be dones as a scheduled event, on the fly, something like that? The thought being compare the tab name to the tab path to identify the spaces.
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Posted By tkraak on 3/28/2007 8:15 AM
Me too. Hyphens based on caps won't cut it.
If you don't mind getting "dirty", give this a try and let me know what you think.
Hacking Hyphens into DNN URLs
Hello,
Running DNN 4.5.0, I was very satisfied of this hack... Until I discover that as soon as I click on "setting" of any module, I have the following error:
ModuleId: 392
ModuleDefId: -1
FriendlyName: Module
ModuleControlSource: Admin/Modules/ModuleSettings.ascx
AssemblyVersion: 04.05.00
PortalID: 0
PortalName: Declic Video FX
UserID: X
UserName: XXXXXXXXX
ActiveTabID: 56
ActiveTabName: Free_HFX
RawURL: /xxxxxxxxxxx
AbsoluteURL: /Default.aspx
AbsoluteURLReferrer:
UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)
DefaultDataProvider: DotNetNuke.Data.SqlDataProvider, DotNetNuke.SqlDataProvider
ExceptionGUID: dd0718c2-8dd6-475d-a414-25efcab24037
InnerException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
FileName:
FileLineNumber: 0
FileColumnNumber: 0
Method: DotNetNuke.Modules.Admin.Modules.ModuleSettingsPage.BindData
StackTrace:
Message: DotNetNuke.Services.Exceptions.ModuleLoadException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. ---> System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.at DotNetNuke.Modules.Admin.Modules.ModuleSettingsPage.BindData()at DotNetNuke.Modules.Admin.Modules.ModuleSettingsPage.Page_Load(Object sender, EventArgs e)--- End of inner exception stack trace ---
Source:
Server Name: XXXXXXXXX
Any idea ???? If I remove the "URL link type", it goes normally...
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