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In addition to the friendly URL, a content item can also be navigated to from a second friendly URL that omits the friendly URL separator. For example, if the friendly URL separator is a dash (-) and the friendly URL for a page is gx-products.htm
then the above page is also available at the friendly URL gxproducts.htm
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Page Title Uniqueness
In XperienCentral it is not required that all web pages have a unique title. Because the friendly URL is determined based on the title of a page plus its location in the navigation structure, two or more pages can have the same title and not have friendly URL conflicts. For example:
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| Parent Page Title(s) | URL Title | Navigation Title | Page Title | Friendly URL |
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| GX/Sales | Contacting | Contact | GX/Sales/Contacting.htm | |
| GX/Sales | Contact us | Contact | GX/Sales/Contact-us.htm | |
| GX/Sales | Contact | GX/Sales/Contact.htm |
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Content Item Title Uniqueness
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In XperienCentral, when two pages/items attempt to resolve to the same friendly URL, the conflict is resolved automatically. The mechanism for resolving friendly URLs is fully described in How Friendly URLs are Constructed.
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In XperienCentral, it is possible for two or more pages/items to resolve to the same friendly URL as a result of your website's structure. This can occur, for example, when through a combination of URL titles, navigation titles, and/or item titles, the calculated friendly URL for two or more pages/items turns out to be identical. Naturally, only one item can claim a specific unique friendly URL if this occurs. All other items that try to claim a friendly URL that is already claimed (in use) will be automatically assigned a different friendly URL in order to resolve the conflict.
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- Accept the friendly URL as assigned by XperienCentral.
- Rename the title (URL, navigation, page) of the current page/content item that is attempting to use the claimed friendly URL to a desired, unclaimed friendly URL.
- If the title of the page or content item itself conflicts with a claimed friendly URL but you nevertheless want to continue using it, add an unused navigation or URL title that does not produce a friendly URL conflict. For page title conflicts, you can also make use of an alternate URL path to avoid the conflict. Alternate URL paths are described in detail in Using Alternate URL Paths.
- Release the URL from the page/content item that is claiming it so that it can be used by the current page/content item. See Releasing Claimed Friendly URLs for complete information.
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Maintaining Friendly URLs
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| Heading | Description |
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| id | An internal identifier for the friendly URL within XperienCentral. IDs are assigned in the order that friendly URLs are created, beginning with 1 and incrementing by 1 for each new friendly URL. |
| URL title | The title of the friendly URL as derived from the URL title, navigation title, or page/content item title. |
| Normalized URL title | The friendly URL title after it has been normalized. Normalizing URL titles is necessary in order to ensure that they are valid for browsers. The normalizing of friendly URL titles is described in detail in the section URL Title Standardization. Note: The normalized URL title as it appears in the exported list does not preserve case usage and does not contain the separator symbol that is substituted for spaces in the friendly URL |
| Querystring | An internal string that XperienCentral uses to retrieve pages, content items, and external database objects. The query string syntax for each item type within XperienCentral has a unique form, for example:
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| Current URL Title | Specifies the identifier (from column 1) that is the current friendly URL for this item. If an item contains an entry in this column, it means that it is no longer an active URL: When this friendly URL is navigated to, the visitor will be redirected to the friendly URL referenced by the id in 'Current URL title' instead.See Maintaining Items with More Than One Friendly URL for more information. |
| WebsiteID | An internal identifier that refers to the web initiative that the page belongs to. Content Repository items are assigned the value "-1" because they can appear in any web initiative in the configuration and therefore do not belong to a specific one. |
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As a result of many factors, it is possible that a page or item can have a claim on more than one friendly URL. This can occur if the URL, navigation or page title of a page or content item is changed or renamed or if a page is moved from one location to another in the navigation structure. Whenever a page or content item is saved, a friendly URL for it is calculated — if any changes occur to the friendly URL of a page or content item, it receives a new friendly URL based on the current circumstances and also keeps the previous URL(s) it once had which now act as redirects. This is explained in more detail in Maintaining the URL History of Pages and Content Items.
To generate a list of all items that are claiming more than one friendly URL, follow these steps:
- Navigate to Configuration > SEO.
- On the [Overview] tab, select "All items with more than one friendly URL" from the drop-down list. The list is generated. Each item with more than one friendly URL is shown against a light gray background with its currently active friendly URL. Each of the other friendly URLs being claimed by the item is listed below it. In the middle column the item sort is indicated (page, content item, or database object) along with its ID.
- If you want to release one or more friendly URLs that an item is claiming to make it available again on your website, select "Delete" next to the URL(s).
- Click
[Apply]. The friendly URLs will be released and can now be used by other items on your website. This task can also be performed on individual content items and pages. For more information, see Deleting URLs from a Page or Content Item's URL History.
Maintaining Items That Want to Claim the Same Friendly URL
When a content item or page is created that attempts to use a claimed friendly URL, it is assigned a unique URL based on the title of the URL it wants as described in Friendly URL Claiming. To see the items on your website attempting to claim a friendly URL that is already in use, follow these steps:
- Navigate to Configuration > SEO.
- On the [Overview] tab, select "Items that want the same friendly URL" from the drop-down list. The list is generated,
The friendly URLs with multiple claim attempts are shown against a light gray background. Below that, the page or content item that currently has the claim is listed followed by the other page(s)/content item(s) that want the same friendly URL and the language the page/content item is in. In the middle column the item type is indicated (Page, Media item, or database object) and in the fourth column the ID of the item is listed.To navigate to an item, click its link in the far left column. The item will appear in the Workspace where you can further examine it. See Releasing Claimed Friendly URLs for information on how to change which page/content item has the claim on a friendly URL.
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- Navigate to Configuration > SEO.
- On the [Overview] tab, select "All pages without friendly URLs". The items without a friendly URL are listed. If any items appear in the list, you can manually recalculate the friendly URL for some or all items on your website.
- Click the [Friendly URLs] tab.
- Select the type of recalculation to be performed:
- Calculate the friendly URL for all items which have no friendly URL yet. A friendly URL will be assigned only to the selected items currently lacking a friendly URL.
- Recalculate the friendly URL for all items. A friendly URL will be calculated for all the selected items belonging to the current web initiative. Note: The URL history for pages and content items will be preserved.
- Select the items for which the friendly URL calculation will be performed: "Pages" or "Content Repository items".
- Click
[Calculate]. Items with no friendly URL will be assigned one.