By auxone on

I am struggling with a seemingly common task. I have a View block with a teaser list at 'example.com/home' which displays articles from various sections of my site. On this page certain other blocks are present. When clicking the teaser I am taken to 'example.com/node/X'. When I'd prefer to go to 'example.com/{section name}/node/X' or something like that. This is so I could set the blocks active to the URL 'example.com/{section name}/*'

What I want is the illusion that clicking on the teaser in the sidebar block loads the node in the content area of the section it belongs to. I thought I could accomplish this with "URL path settings" of the node, but even if I made my block show up on '{section name}/*', I'd have to set each node's URL to something like '{section name}/this-is-an-article/'. I'd like to avoid this because the people actually writing articles have been trained to select a certain taxonomy term to determine which section it will appear in. I think it would be very error prone to have them include the {section name} in each URL.

Is there another way?

Thanks in advance,
Tyler

⋅ Categories: Drupal 5.x

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Jeff Burnz commented

Use the Pathauto module to write your URL's for you. You can configure the alias for nodes to include the taxonomy term precisely how you want it.

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