[support] taxonomy categories: adding keyword messes up url?

[will hall]

hi greg, thanks for your reply.
i have de-selected the update option in pathauto.

it seems to be working better now.

i am not sure i understand exactly what you are saying here,

  but that can cause problems on the other side
 > (e.g. why does the URL contain a term that is not selected for the
 > node?).
 >

and wonder if i have compounded the problem with this fix?

-- will

Greg Knaddison - GVS wrote:
> On 1/26/07, will hall <will at theicarusproject.net> wrote:
>> hi so when we have a node and add a keyword from the taxonomy module it
>> changes the url of the node. then we get very strange urls, and multiple
>> keywords just leads to chaos. makes it hard to link to the url if it
>> changes.
>>
>> any suggestions?
> 
> It sounds like you are using pathauto with the category as part of
> your pattern.  I'm going ot assume that for my response.  If it's not
> the case, then we'll need to know what contributed modules you do have
> installed to be able to diagnose the problem.
> 
> There are several options in the "general settings" of pathauto called
> the "update options".  You can set it so that the paths don't change
> when a node is updated but that can cause problems on the other side
> (e.g. why does the URL contain a term that is not selected for the
> node?).
> 
> If you want the URL to stay in sync with the category on the node,
> then you have several ways to keep old links still working.  One way
> is to use a redirect from the old URL to the new one.  The path
> redirect module makes that pretty easy to maintain.  This is a manual
> process now but hopefully someone will have time to make it one of the
> update options for pathauto (there is already an issue for it in the
> pathauto issue queue).
> 
> Another option (depending on where your links are) is to use the
> internal drupal path to the node and let the menu module and/or php
> and/or the internal link module to create your links to the current
> name of the module on the fly.  That is slightly more expensive for
> performance, but only slightly.  This issue has been discussed before
> and the result of the discussion was the internal links module, so I
> suggest you investigate it and see if it will help your problems.
> 
> Regards,
> Greg