[support] Multiple path aliases?

Sat Jun 2 19:21:59 UTC 2012

Hi and thanks for the post, I have created the content in views blocks so
that isn't my actual issue. The issue is that if joespage appears in more
then on section I have to duplicate the page to ensure that when the user
looks at joespage in sectionthis that the right side tertiary menu's will
still show the content links for sectionthis. So the content is covered
what the problem is, is the repetitious pages. I have approx 16 employees
and they are in each 2,3, sometimes 4 sub groups within the company. this
makes for a lot of duplicated pages, think also like I have to work on a
specific page? I might have to open 3 or 4 before I hit the right one
instead of adjusting or adding content via a block on the blocks page and
using the URL as a filter on the one page. You are saying though that
multiple aliases plays hell with menu's? I was getting to the point of
writing a module to manage this. In this case though these page could be
kept from the main top navigation and be handled by "view" style side
navigation. I am using that for the secondary and tertiary menu's as the
action of adding or changing a group affilliation will also manage those as
these are clones of the member groups which I am using tags to create the
group affiliations, so by adding a member or changing/adding a member to a
group the menu will automatically change. These groups are already third
tier in the hierarchy of the menu so they won't be in the main nav. I
appreciate the help and the warning about the aliases any further thoughts
are welcome.

thanks

--jerry

On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 1:53 PM, DTH <david at hartster.org> wrote:

> Using the core path module it's possible to set up multiple aliases
> for the same node art admin/build/path/add [assuming D6] (e.g. foo/bar
> and baz/bar can both be aliases to node/4). Where the problem lies is
> that this doesn't play well with  menus, so if you want to have both
> foo/bar and baz/bar in a menu it's not going to work as going to
> baz/bar will trigger active trails to foo/bar as well.
>
> Depending on your site structure/number of cloned pages/how often
> content changes etc, the way I've handled this in the past includes:
>
> 1. If there's only a few pages or if the content never/rarely changes
> just suck it up and quickly copy over the contents to a new node
> 2. Use views (e.g. create a node called bar, and views with paths foo
> and baz that take bar as an argument)
> 3. Either on the same content type or a new content type called Cloned
> Content etc, have a node reference field and then configure your
> display/templates to show the referenced content, so your workflow
> would be: create foo/bar and then if  the same content is needed
> elsewhere, create a new node and choose foo/bar as the node reference,
> and then save it in the appropriate place in the menu as baz/bar.
>
> This last one is what I do currently (after somebody mentioned it on
> the list a while back when I asked a very similar question).
>
> > From: Gerald Klein <jk at zognet.com>
> > Subject: Re: [support] Multiple path aliases?
> >
> > Hi and thanks for the post, this is a great module but doesn't serve my
> > purpose. This module just redirects to another URL, I need something that
> > allows the setting of multiple aliases for the same page and the URL
> > remains intact after load. I want for example:
> > http://somesite/project1/bill
> > and
> > http://somesite/project2/bill
> >
> > to point to the same content.
> >
> > But thanks for this module I can see it's usefuleness.
> >
> > thanks for help and in advance for anyone who knows the answer to my
> > problem.
> >
> > thanks again
> >
> > --jerry
> >
> > On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 6:39 PM, Steve Edwards <killshot91 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Try PAth Redirect.
> >>
> >> http://drupal.org/project/path_redirect
> >>
> >> Steve
> >>
> >> On Jun 1, 2012, at 4:38 PM, Gerald Klein wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi, I have a site that I am working on that employees appear in a number
> >> of areas. To make the nav complete I have to recreate their pages
> multiple
> >> times. I have loaded the actual content into blocks and cloned them so I
> >> can solve that problem, but it would be much cleaner if I could simply
> >> apply multiple path aliases to a sinble page. Does anyone know how this
> can
> >> be done?
> >>
> >> thanks in advance for any help.
> >>
> >> thanks
> >>
> >> --jerry
> >>
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