I seem to have stumbled across a problem, I don't know if its an error on my part or if its just the module, hopefully someone may be able to shed some light on my issue.

I have setup pathauto to generate aliases for my pages, I have used the following pattern for my page content type
[menupath-raw]
which works well and generates the alias if the page is in a menu, and for second-level menu items etc which most of my pages are.

My problem is if i create a page (same content type) and it doesn't belong to a menu, an alias cant be created so i am stuck with a page with no alias.

Any suggestions?

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jami3z’s picture

jami3z commented

No help?

FlemmingLeer’s picture

FlemmingLeer commented

How many menus do you have ?

Frank Steiner’s picture

Frank Steiner commented

This is normal behaviour: If you tell pathauto "create an alias from the menu path" and then you create a page without a menu, what kind of alias do you expect to get???

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greggles
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Status: Active » Fixed

Thanks for the answer, Frank Steiner.

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

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

jami3z’s picture

jami3z commented
Status: Closed (fixed) » Closed (won't fix)

Sorry, but I have been away and unable to check up on this. I understand what the pathauto is doing, thats not my issue. I probably should have explained it a little better.

In the settings for pathauto, under "Node Path Settings" I currently have [menupath-raw] for all page paths, this because I need aliases created for when a menu item is added to a parent item so I get the alias like http://domainname.com/parent-item/menu-item

but, as the above setting is in use for all page paths, when a normal page node is created, which does not belong to any menu etc, it is stuck at being http://domainname.com/node-id.

So I need to be able to set it up somehow so that when a page node is created and added to a menu or submenu the url path is generated, and also be able to generate an alias for a node that isnt associated with a menu etc.

Any help would be great, this is driving me nuts.

Frank Steiner’s picture

Frank Steiner commented

That would be a conditional pattern, discussed sometimes before, but hard to implement I guess.
I'm not sure, but can't you chose the menupath without the last element? I though there was such an option, I can't take a look at the moment.
And then add the page title? Assuming that the page and menu title are somehow similar, you would always get a alias, either the pagetitle alone or with the menu path below.

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chriscalip commented

Sure would be nice to have the option [menupath-raw-or-title-raw]

If menupath doesnt exist then provide title-raw instead token.

Prolly with custom tokens?

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greggles
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Yes, prolly so.

There are so many "it would be nice to have X token" but the generation of all these Tokens is bad for site performance.

See the Token Starter Kit for details on how to do it if you are not sure.