Come together with the global Drupal community in Rotterdam, 28 Sept – 1 Oct 2026. Sessions, contribution, connection, and Early Bird savings until 8 June.for those people familiar with the old (drupal 5) location of the path auto configuration settings, the new location is a little obscure (admin/build/path/pathauto).
I would recommend making this change MORE OBVIOUS on the project page and in the handbook page, and go as far as to recommend a link from the admin/by-module entry for path auto (since there are already two links under it that point to the permissions and a "get help" which also does not point to where you can actually configure the path auto settings.
Comments
Comment #1
gregglesThanks for the feedback. This change was motivated by Gábor Hojtsy in #250235: Usability: Integrate with URL alias page and align with Drupal 6 "terms" with the intent of making it easier to find for new pathauto users and also feedback in irc from JJeff. I'm sensitive to the fact that it is harder for people used to pathauto to find, but there's not a lot that we can do (see below).
The new location is mentioned in the upgrade notes that are linked from the project page. It's also in the README.txt. I'm hesitant to put the upgrade notes onto the project homepage. That page is meant to serve a lot of different people and cluttering it with information makes it less usable.
The handbook pages are largely user contributed. I don't like documenting things in three places (As you can see, I barely keep up with documenting them in one place...). If you want to change it, you've got the permissions.
6.x-1.x is in string freeze. We made a big deal about this back in June so that translators could do their work and know that we wouldn't change strings on them again. So, we can't change the help text in that branch.
To get a link to show up on admin/by-module the link must be a menu "normal item." It cannot be a local task (i.e. a tab). So, it's impossible to add to that page.
So, we can add it to the help text for 6.x-2.x.
Comment #2
gregglesAlso, I'm very open to being corrected on those points above, but wanted to lay out the constrictions that we're working within.
Comment #3
GregoryHeller commentedthanks for the explanation greggles. I just have to wonder what the point of the section for pathauto on "administer by module" is if it doesn't provide any useful links for administering the path auto module at all.
As you point out though, the problem i experienced is mostly due to the fact that i did not RTFM for the d6 version.
Comment #4
gregglesThat page is generated automatically without the ability for a module to exert much control. As you noted, it links to permissions and help so that provides some value, but the lack of a way to add more links is, IMHO, a core bug or at least a core feature request which would be very nice.
Comment #5
dave reidD7 includes the ability to add a 'settings' page location in .info files and we've done the best to document this for D6, so I don't think we can do anything else.