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@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@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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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@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:
- 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@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@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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I'm probably not the only one who is reading Organic Groups here. Have you looked at that?
Or maybe http://drupal.org/project/domain? Nancy
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. -- Dr. Martin L. King, Jr.
From: Gerald Klein
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.
Hi and thanks, I am not sure how that applies to this, maybe it's just me but looks like an interesting module that I need to look into.
thanks
--jerry
On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 4:38 PM, Ms. Nancy Wichmann nan_wich@bellsouth.netwrote:
I'm probably not the only one who is reading Organic Groups here. Have you looked at that?
Or maybe http://drupal.org/project/domain?
*Nancy* Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. -- Dr. Martin L. King, Jr.
*From:* Gerald Klein
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.
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