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Title: Concept: Paths, Aliases, and URLs
Section: Basic Page Management
File name: content-paths.txt
Covers: What is a Drupal path (node/1) and an alias (about => node/1) vs. the full URL

Attributions information

See https://userguide-drupal.redesign.devdrupal.org/guidelines/guidelines.ht...

Adapted by https://www.drupal.org/u/diana.lakatos[Diána Lakatos] at http://pronovix.com[Pronovix] from
https://www.drupal.org/node/120631["URL aliases"], and https://www.drupal.org/node/31644["Understanding Drupal paths"]
copyright 2000-2015 by the individual contributors to the
https://www.drupal.org/documentation[Drupal Community Documentation]

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- Does it follow the template?
- Have the comments and placeholder text been removed from the template?
- Is everything the topic was supposed to cover included, and nothing extra?
- If there are @todo notes, are they clear?
- If there are images included, do they include instructions for how to redo them in a comment? (Note: Screenshots do not need to be perfect. Just make a rough cut.)
- Is attribution provided?

Comments

jhodgdon’s picture

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Note: As of July 27, the "DripDocs" team is planning to work on this issue, so for anyone else, unless you have *really* strong desire to do it, if this date is not too far in the past, you might pick another topic. Thanks!

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jhodgdon’s picture

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Thanks for taking on this topic! Adding checklist to issue summary.

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Thank you!
I adapted https://www.drupal.org/node/120631 to our guiding scenario.

jhodgdon’s picture

Status: Needs review » Needs work

Looks pretty good, thanks!

A couple of things to fix before I think this is ready to go into the guide:

a) When I read the "What is a path?" section, it doesn't actually tell me what a "path" is?

b) Please take out the task-oriented information -- the part that tells me how to do things (like how to add an alias to a page). We are trying to keep the topics separated into concepts and tasks, and this one is a concept topic. The page alias creation is listed as part of the coverage in the "content-create" topic, so that would be a good follow-on topic.

Come to think of it, we need to change the order of these two topics so that this concept comes before that tasks. I'll take care of that in the spreadsheet and book outline now!

c) The index entries need attention. You have:

(((Paths, Aliases, URLs, overview)))

This will not work the way you think it might... What we need is separate entries. Each index entry is:

(((Primary,secondary)))

So we need something like:

(((Paths,overview)))
(((Aliases,overview)))
etc.

d) Regarding Path Auto, we have plans to add this to the book (see "Configuring Automatic URLs"). The problem is that the Pathauto module is not available yet for Drupal 8, so we have delayed this topic. So could you add to the Related Topics list a @todo that says to link to this topic if or when it becomes available?

jhodgdon’s picture

Oh wait, regarding Path Auto, we do have a file set up for this already, so you can link to the "structure-pathauto" topic as "related".

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diana.lakatos’s picture

Status: Needs work » Needs review
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Thank you! I updated the copy based on your feedback, and also added one more source to the attributions information in the ticket summary.

jhodgdon’s picture

Status: Needs review » Fixed

Excellent!

I've added this to the guide source... I will get it up to the site in a while.

diana.lakatos’s picture

Status: Fixed » Needs review
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I just noticed a small mistake in the formatting of the first list when checking it out on the user guide page. I fixed it, please find it attached.

jhodgdon’s picture

Got it, thanks!

diana.lakatos’s picture

Status: Needs review » Fixed
jhodgdon’s picture

Oops, yes forgot to update status. ;)

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed - issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.