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Jason Koskimaki User is Offline

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Nuke Wiz
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5/10/2006 12:45 PM
It might be nice to expand this module and/or the core to allow additional URL customizations such as your News Articles which lets you append the article title to the end: http://www.ventrian.com/Resources/Articles/tabid/213/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/261/Configuring-Users-Online-for-DotNetNuke.aspx Could this be a core enhancement where perhaps in navigateurl or somewhere you could choose to set a flag to do this? I would sure love it if on my site I could have: mysite com/events/eventid/55/golf-lessons.aspx mysite com/forums/fid/44/anybody-interested-in-playing-golf.aspx mysite com/blog/bid/46/my-european-vacation-journal.aspx Jason

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5/11/2006 5:54 AM
You can do this today, with the default provider, there is a call to the friendly URL provider to specify page name, that's what I use for news articles, so it depends on the module.

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5/11/2006 8:01 AM
I did not know that. Cool! I guess I assumed since you were doing all this url rewriting you had figured out how to do it on your modules too. Can't wait to try this out.... Jason

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5/11/2006 7:36 PM
Yep, just take a look at how news articles does it, it's actually part of the provider API

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6/06/2006 11:55 AM
I am a little late to this party, but I am trying to solve the same issue. I extract data from an external source, and end up with urls such as http://z.nu.nl/Home/tabid/57/hmod/detail/news_id/12333843/pr/957759/type/portal/default.aspx Where as I'd like to make sure the actual article title gets shown on the URL... When you mention the 'default provider' are you referring to the default DNN friendly URL provider, or to your Friendly URL module. I'd appreciate an extra pointer, I am new to this part of DNN. Thanks, René

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6/06/2006 4:44 PM
The default DNN friendly provider, the following would work:- http://z.nu.nl/Home/tabid/57/hmod/detail/news_id/12333843/pr/957759/type/portal/MY-ARTICLE-TITLE.aspx As the article title is already in the URL, if you want to replace all of it though, that's a different story

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6/07/2006 12:01 AM
That is one of the things I am hoping for with Friendly URL's. Currently in NewsArticles it does not really work. What I want is the URL to appear as: http://www.smallbizserver.net/articles/my-article-name.aspx and nothing else in it...

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6/07/2006 6:16 AM
Mariette, The only way to do this is to mod the news articles module, and add a custom http module to rewrite the request.

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6/07/2006 2:57 PM
Well, isn't that a great improvement of NewsArticles? From a SEO stand point it is.

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6/07/2006 3:15 PM
Posted By Mariette on 6/07/2006 12:01 AM That is one of the things I am hoping for with Friendly URL's. Currently in NewsArticles it does not really work. What I want is the URL to appear as: http://www.smallbizserver.net/articles/my-article-name.aspx and nothing else in it... This really isn't practical as 1 - You could not have duplicate article names 2 - You could not have certain characters in your article titles 3 - It would take a bigger performance hit 4 - Code to do it would be difficult I would think Jason

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