[support] using real path aliases

[Earnie Boyd]

The pathauto module might help, there may be modules for books; you
can search at http://drupal.org/project/Modules.

You may need to create a custom module to handle it though.

Earnie

On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 11:31 AM, Daniel Germer <daniel at triple5.org> wrote:
> Hi, I had trouble generating path aliases for nested documents.
>
> I am creating a book within my site and I want the pathauto alias to be
> generated with the path reflecting the chapters,
>
> for example I have created a page:
>
> example.com/book
>
> Now, when I create a subpage of book (e.g. the chapter: introduction) I
> want it automatically named:
> example.com/book/introduction
>
> when I go there and create a subpage acknowledgments that I appears the
> alias
> example.com/book/introduction/acknowledgments
>
> and so on,
>
> ideally, when I move a page between chapters this would also be updating
> the path alias.
>
> any hints for that? I have installed transliteration and pathauto so
> far, when I use the pattern for current path:
> [current-page:url:relative]/[node:title] it creates something like
>
> example.com/nodeaddbook/acknowledgments
> So I used the wrong pattern, it should have been:
> [node:book:parents:join-path]/[node:title]
> as replacement pattern, this can be found under the alias settings:
> /admin/config/search/path/patterns
> content > book...
>
> So this works.
>
> Now when I decide to move a page between chapters I have to do it in the
> edit tab and then move down to change the book outline, if I was going
> to move the page with the tab "outline" above the page (next to edit) it
> changed the automatic alias to fixed, so the path alias won't reflect my
> page move.
> This behaviour is good for keeping links working.
>
> The better solution would be to automatically create a redirect to the
> new page, so let's see what happens when adding the redirect module here...
>
> although I have set the module to add a redirect when url-alias is
> change this did not affect the automatic change when moving a page. Also
> the url-alias does not change when I do the move from the outline tab
> above my book-page.
>
>
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