I think it would be nice to set a custom URL path for the FAQ page. Is there a workaround?

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stella commented
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Status: Active » Postponed

there's no work around at the moment. You could modify the code and change 'faq' to the path of your choice on lines 74, 125, 132 and 133 in faq.module. I'm not inclined to make this a feature at the moment, unless more people request it.

Cheers,
Stella

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Anonymous (not verified) commented

You can add me to the wish list of those interested in this. the FAQ is the only item on my website that doesnt comply with the URL format i use

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nancydru
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Would it be possible to use "Locale" for this? Create a dummy language and translate that string to whatever they want.

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stella commented

midkemia: what is the URL format you use out of interest?

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Anonymous (not verified) commented

I am using the core path module

What i have done for all major nodes is used

www.mydomain.com/my-path/my-page

with the faq module i effectively get

www.mydomain.com/my-page

with my-page being FAQ

I had 5.x 2.3 installed and tried the suggested line changes but it didnt make a difference, I now have 2.4 but not tried the changes as yet

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Hmm, I just added a URL alias for "/faq" to "/questions/faq" and it came out that way.

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Anonymous (not verified) commented

If you go to admin and set a path alias for 'faq' to say 'my-path/faq' it only works for URL 'faq'. All teh FAQs themselves still appear as faq/number with my path missing.

Now maybe if the URL alias module allowed you to set anything under the url you remap it would be a better option

ie faq becomes my-path/faq/number... but thats another story

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nancydru
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I also have URL aliases on all my /faq/# pages - and have had since 2.0 came out.

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Anonymous (not verified) commented

Can you describe how you configured the alias as i must have missed something.

By default i get

www.mydomain.com/faq/#

when i set an alias for 'faq' to

my-path/faq

i get

www.mydomain.com/my-path/faq

but for the faq submenu's i still get

www.mydomain.com/faq/#

when i am looking for

www.mydomain.com/my-path/faq/#

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Pretty simple, I set "/faq/28" to "/questions/about_us.html" and "faq/29" to "/questions/general_info.html".

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Anonymous (not verified) commented

I think if i understand correctly, your setting Alias for every FAQ item?

Which is slightly different in that i want a global 'my-path' across all faq's meaning i would not have to manually set a path alias on potentially several hundred nodes

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nancydru
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No, I only set the aliases for each page of faq's (I have 5). For those with lots of such pages, I am sure that pathauto could be set up to do what you want.

Now, I will note that when I hover over an faq link, it still shows /faq/xxx, but when you go to the page, the address bar shows the desired alias. I don't know if this has an impact on search engines.

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stella commented
Status: Postponed » Closed (works as designed)

midkemia: I think the only way to get what you want is for you to lodge a feature request again the path module so it can handle wildcards. Maybe the pathauto module can do this, not sure. Wildcards could work for the per-category faq pages, but I don't think it would be possible for the faq nodes themselves, if this is what you wanted. It still falls outside the scope of the faq module.

In fact the original request can be handled by the path module using URL aliases, so there is no reason for it to be done in the faq module at all. Hence changing this to be "by design".

Cheers,
Stella

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WorldFallz commented
Title: Ability to set custom URL path for FAQ page » pathauto does it

I have pathauto setup so that faqs get mapped to /content/faqs/[title]l and thats what appears in the address bar. It also appears on the faq page (which is /content/faq) in the title link to the individual faqs, it just doesnt show up in the summary links at the top of the categories. No biggie to me.

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stella commented

WorldFallz: what do you mean by "the summary links at the top of the categories" exactly? Which layout (both categories and questions) are you using?

Cheers,
Stella

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stella commented
Title: pathauto does it » Ability to set custom URL path for FAQ page

resetting page title back to original

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mjrider commented

I would like to be added to the list of people who request custom url option as well

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adrnand commented

I would like to be added to the list of people who request custom url option as well

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stella commented

This can still be handled using Drupal core's path module and the contrib pathauto module.