Hallo Markus, hi Jim, Publishing SEO friendly and human-readable file names (urls) is a constant challenge facing RedDot users.
I've recently written a plugin that has fairly sophisticated interface that allows admins/editors to configure a "rule" for a content class so that pages' file names(url) and their title tags can be automatically generated, either in batch fashion or page by page. The rule setting is a visual drag and drop interface that allows all conceivable data fields that pertain to a content class template -- headline, page id, guid and etc -- to be concatenated into an aggregate meaningful string. In addition, this plug in also allows one to add arbitrary "constant" string segment as part of the concatenation. A simple RQL script that grabs the headline and turn it into file name is easy to write; but devil is always in the detail. What do you do if there are i18n chars in the headline? Are you gonna keep all "noise" words in the url? (a, an, the, of and etc) Issues like that and a whole slew of other character escaping, grammatical stemming and word sanitizing are all gracefully, automatically handled by this plugin. A url like this http://www.chefsbest.org/no-sugar-added-premium-vanilla-ice-cream-award-winner-2400.htmand all the other thousands of file names are all handled with this plugin. All the content managing staff needs to do is to come of with nomenclature logic and click a few button to configure a rule to reflect that nomenclature. The plugin does all the dirty work. Unfortunately I am not able to share this plugin with you as the client invested heavily in it. But I just want to emphasize that Drupal style "path-auto" is doable in RedDot. And with due effort, you can take it as far as your imagination leads. Cheers, Henry Lu On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 8:38 PM, markus giesen <[email protected]>wrote: > > Hi Jim, > > with some RQL you can create a Plugin, which sets the filename > automatically to your page headline and still let's you manage to edit > this manually. > > The extensions can be changed in the project variants or as global > setting in the project settings. > > Cheers, > > Markus > http://www.reddotcmsblog.com > > On 28 Jul., 01:41, JimV <[email protected]> wrote: > > What is the best way to handle file names for published files in > > RedDOT. I believe the options are to: > > 1. Use the GUID > > 2. Use the page ID > > 3. Enter a normal name for the file. > > > > We are currently using option 3, so that we get realistic names for > > the files on our website. But this appears to require that the > > properties for each page be opened when a page is first created. Is > > there an automatic way to get the file name from the headline. > > > > Also, we currently need to have our files saved with a .php extension, > > though in the next 3 months or so, hope to have them all as .html. > > What is the best way to handle the extension? > > > -- 646-807-8683 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RedDot CMS Users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/RedDot-CMS-Users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
