Umbraco 7 - Alternative URLs

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I am using Umbraco 7 and I need to achieve something which I am not entirely sure of the best way to approach it.

Basically I have vacancies on a website that have URLs currently such as this:

/vacancies/a/almighty-school/live/first-year-teacher/

What I want is for the URL to NOT show the /a and /live part (which are needed for structuring in the administration area), so basically the above URL would be:

/vacancies/almighty-school/first-year-teacher

I am not entirely sure of the best way of doing this, I know about URL Rewriting but am not sure if that could do this and if it could I really am not that clued up on the regular expressions needed to create it.

Any ideas anyone??

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2 Answers

7
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Add a property called umbracoUrlAlias, type Textstring, to your document type. Set the value to be "/vacancies/almighty-school/first-year-teacher".

This is a "magic string" that will then allow the document to be accessed via an alternate URL.

You could also set up a ContentService.Saving event to automatically set the value of this on the given node according to some preset rules.

0
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I think the best way to tackle this is to create your own Segment Provider:

When the URL is build up, umbraco will convert every node into a segment. Each published Content has a url segment.

The documentation for manipulating these segments can be found here: http://our.umbraco.org/documentation/Reference/Request-Pipeline/outbound-pipeline