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Page not redirecting on mobile phone

5/25/2017 11:34 AM

Stephen

Joined: 7/29/2012

Posts: 403

Re: Page not redirecting on mobile phone

A further observation. I've just noticed that the page I deleted the duplicate entries for is now working. So it seems deleting duplicate entries does work, but it didn't work immediately after deleting the duplicate entry.

So I need to try out the duplicate entry deletion a bit more to see when that works exactly.

5/25/2017 2:11 PM

Aderson Oliveira

Joined: 12/28/2009

Posts: 1011

Re: Page not redirecting on mobile phone

Hi Steve,

As in DNN there are usually many ways to perform the same task what I'm about to describe may not apply to how you are copying the page but here I go:

On DNN 8 when you use the "Copy Page" option under the "Pages" menu you can just select the page to be copied and then flip the tab to "Page Details". There you can remove "- Copy" and name the new page anything you want.

This way the newly copied page will be already created with the correct name you want to give without any redirects.

On DNN 9 you have the "Duplicate Page" under page settings where you can also rename the page to anything you want.

Does that make sense or I'm way off here?

Cheers,

Aderson

5/26/2017 12:13 AM

Stephen

Joined: 7/29/2012

Posts: 403

Re: Page not redirecting on mobile phone

Hi Aderson,

Thank you for your reply.

That is how I made the copies. I did rename the page, but it's the URL that gets generated with hyphens.
I tried putting in the desired URL when making the copy but that is ignored and a generated URL created instead.

The hyphens are caused because it's using the page names in the hierarchy, some of which contain spaces.

So there seems to be no way to create a page with a 'clean' URL other than having to re-edit the page which causes a redirect.

I'm using DNN 8 by the way.

Steve

5/26/2017 7:14 AM

Aderson Oliveira

Joined: 12/28/2009

Posts: 1011

Re: Page not redirecting on mobile phone

Hi Steve,

On my dnn8 site I am seeing a different behavior as compared to what you are reporting. When I'm coping a page, during the process and before saving I go and rename the "Page Name:" to what I want, it does NOT create a redirect with dashes from me. It just saves the page with the new name. I don't even have the need to change the page URL cause it gets created automatically with the name I set on the "Page Name" field.

Sorry, just having a hard time reproducing the problem you see.

Aderson

5/27/2017 1:01 AM

Stephen

Joined: 7/29/2012

Posts: 403

Re: Page not redirecting on mobile phone

Hi Aderson,

I'm sorry if it's not clear, I think this warrants an example.

I've created a page and taken the actual values.
I gave the page the name 'Day 18'. It will sit in the following menu hierarchy in where 'Blog' is a top level menu item:
Blog > The Hike > Week 3 > Day 18
This is the text as displayed in the menu, i.e. the page names.

When I created the page (via page copy), I leave the page url blank, it is generated from the menu page names as follows:
/Blog/The-Hike/Week-3/Day-18

I then go to page settings again and change the url to be:
/blog/thehike/week3/day18

But now I've created an entry in the TabUrls table and therefore the page is redirected, which I'd like to avoid.

If I enter the 'page url' when creating the page, it's overwritten with the above hypenated url.

My point is that I can't create a page with the desired URL without having a redirect.

I hope this is clear. If not I can create some screenshots :-) I'm not sure why you're not seeing this behaviour, do your page names have spaces in them?

Steve.

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