Node without URL, how?

By Nick.D on 4 Apr 2012 at 21:21 UTC

I have a content type that I am using in basically a support role. It won't appear on the site without being part of a view. Besides giving it a dummy URL, is there any way to actually remove URLs being generated for this content type?

I've searched, and haven't been able to find anything...

Thanks!

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Anyone have any ideas?

Nick.D commented 16 April 2012 at 18:13

Anyone have any ideas?

entity construction kit may solve this

zilla commented 12 September 2013 at 16:26

you will be able to define a custom entity fully accessible in views, with all bundles and anything that may feel "like a node" but very useful where you want it to act like an item, as in, no comments or clear title, rather part of a list with specific fields (for example)

there's an overview on the project page: https://drupal.org/project/ECK

and a great tutorial walkthrough at: http://codekarate.com/daily-dose-of-drupal/drupal-7-entity-construction-kit

...this is sort of like hiding URL, since the idea is that you're only using the entity in some other representation and still want to use fields and everything else (including views specifically)

All nodes have a URL of

spovlot commented 16 April 2012 at 22:27

All nodes have a URL of node/nid . Otherwise, you couldn't edit it. If you have Pathauto installed, you could create an obscure URL. Or you might want to set permissions so regular users don't have direct access to that type,

Do instances of this content

LoMo commented 16 April 2012 at 22:48

Do instances of this content type actually have to be published for your use? If not, then you could have them unpublished and attempts to access their URLs (for normal users of the site) would not be successful and the content would not be listed in site maps, etc.

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Ayesh commented 17 April 2012 at 12:19

-- sorry --

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I fixed this unintentionally

Nick.D commented 20 April 2012 at 05:53

I fixed this unintentionally for now; Using pathauto, I left the default pattern blank. This makes it use node/nid... which isn't ideal, but it does get the job done for the most part.

I'll modify the permissions to make the content type inaccessible by all but admins. That should do the trick.

I could be wrong, but I think

LoMo commented 20 April 2012 at 22:12

I could be wrong, but I think that making the content type inaccessible to all but admin would also make the Views inaccessible by non-admin. Perhaps someone else can corroborate or if you have problems with this approach, you'll at least have a clue why and can look for a workaround. I've not done much with content access restrictions, myself (although others have implemented such controls on projects I was involved in). My intuition says that Views will also check the access restrictions, but there should be a way around this for your use case.

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