Pattern Syntax: Pathauto

Overview

Drupal forms supported:

1. Automated alias settings (/admin/build/path/pathauto)

Available actions:

1. pathauto

Depends on the following modules:

1. path
2. pathauto

Valid elements for "pathauto" action

• verbose
• separator
• case
• max_length
• max_component_length
• max_bulk_update
• update_action
• transliterate
• reduce_ascii
• ignore_words
• punctuation_* - punctuation settings - use patterns for helper to get full list of punctuation elements
• node - node path settings (see below)
• taxonomy - taxonomy term path settings (see below)
• user_pattern - pattern for user account page paths
• user_bulkupdate - set to 1 to bulk generate aliases for users that are not aliased
• reset - set to 1 to reset all settings to default values

valid elements for node and taxonomy path settings:

• default - Default path pattern
• "content_type_name" - Pattern for all "content_type_name" paths
• X - Pattern for all vocab X paths (where X is vocabulary vid)
• vid_X - same as above but required in XML since element names can't begin with number
• bulkupdate - set to 1 to bulk generate aliases for nodes/terms that are not aliased
• applytofeeds - internal feed alias text

valid values for "punctuation_*" elements:

• 0 - Remove
• 1 - Replace by separator
• 2 - No action (do not replace)

prefix "pathauto_" can be left out from all the element names.

Examples

YAML

  - tag: pathauto
    separator: -
    max_bulk_update: 200
    punctuation_underscore: 1
    punctuation_hyphen: 1
    node:
      default: content/[title-raw]
      page: "[title-raw]"   # quotes are reuqired here because [] has a special meaning in YAML
      bulkupdate: 1
      applytofeeds: feed
    taxonomy:
      default: category/[vocab-raw]/[catpath-raw]
      2: articles/[vocab-raw]/[catpath-raw]
      3: products/[vocab-raw]/[catpath-raw]
      bulkupdate: 1
      applytofeeds: feed
    user_pattern: users/[user-raw]
    user_bulkupdate: 1

XML

    <pathauto>
      <separator>-</separator>
      <max_bulk_update>200</max_bulk_update>
      <punctuation_underscore>1</punctuation_underscore>
      <punctuation_hyphen>1</punctuation_hyphen>
      <node>
        <default>content/[title-raw]</default>
        <page>[title-raw]</page>
        <bulkupdate>1</bulkupdate>
        <applytofeeds>feed</applytofeeds>
      </node>
      <taxonomy>
        <default>category/[vocab-raw]/[catpath-raw]</default>
        <vid_3>articles/[vocab-raw]/[catpath-raw]</vid_3>
        <vid_2>products/[vocab-raw]/[catpath-raw]</vid_2>
        <bulkupdate>1</bulkupdate>
        <applytofeeds>feed</applytofeeds>
      </taxonomy>
      <user_pattern>users/[user-raw]</user_pattern>
      <user_bulkupdate>1</user_bulkupdate>
    </pathauto>