Path field needs better help text and validation

beeradb - March 7, 2009 - 18:58
Project:Drupal
Version:7.x-dev
Component:path.module
Category:task
Priority:critical
Assigned:Unassigned
Status:duplicate
Issue tags:UBUserTesting2009
Description

The Path field when setting up a path alias has no validation on it. Additionally the help text states "do not end paths with slash", leading some users to think that the path should then start with a slash. If the user does start the path with a slash, such as "/example", they get redirected to "http://example". Now it's extremely difficult to get back to the page, since all links to it are pointing to the wrong location.

Users might also enter in a Full URL into the path field, ending up with really crazy long aliases that don't make much sense.

We should improve the validation and help text of this field.

#2

Xano - November 5, 2009 - 16:04
Status:active» duplicate

Marking this a duplicate of #103680: Remove leading and trailing slashes in path aliases (and removing dots).

 
 

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