I should mention I use Pathauto, but I've set these aliases manually just to make sure there was no funny business going on with it.

I am trying to set up an Author/Blog list page. When I add User: Name as a Field, the link cannot be modified to NOT be the User's login Name.

As an example, I have a user with the user name John Smith and there are several path aliases set up for him:
/users/john_smith
/users/john_smith/tracker
/blogs/john_smith
/blogs/john_smith/feed

In Fields, when I try to "Rewrite the output of this field" or "Output this field as a link" or even "Link this field to its user," it will not change the User Name link from being:
http://mydomain.com/blogs/John Smith

(Yes, with a space in it -- John Smith is the actual user name.)

For Arguments I have : User: Name, and User: Uid
For Fields I have: Node: Has new content, and User: Name
For Filters I have: User: Active Yes, and Node: Type = Blog Post
No Relationships or Sort Criteria

In the user's profile page, there is a small link there called "View recent blog entries" that correctly
shows the link as:
http://mydomain.com/blogs/john_smith

Please patch this, or tell me how I've royally screwed up this view somehow. :-) Thanks.

~ G Piper

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gregarios commented

Oops, I forgot to give my specs too: FreeBSD 6.3, Drupal 6.10, MySQL 5.0.75, PHP 5.2.8, Apache 2.2.11, jQuery Update 1.2.6.

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merlinofchaos commented
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Because aliases always convert to an id, you should definitely be using User: UID only, not User: Name at all.

Try that.

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gregarios commented

I can get the links to show the correct path using User: UID like you suggested. However, it only works if I don't have User: Name as an argument NOR as a Field... and that means I cannot show the link itself as a Name. As soon as I disable the User: Name everywhere, the UID paths show up correctly in the links. When I enable the User: Name anywhere, the path changes into the User Name like before -- no matter what I do it seems.

As a possible solution:

In the Fields section of views, it would be REALLY helpful, and would provide a simple workaround for this problem, if "Transform spaces to dashes in URL" could have an option of using underscores instead of dashes. My Pathauto uses underscore as a substitute for spaces in pathnames, not dashes, and this would enable me to set up the real user name as an actual path that works. For me, "Transform spaces to underscores in URL" would be more preferable. (Since dashes don't work for me without re-making all the aliases on my entire 9000 node site)

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gregarios commented

Problem still exists with version 6.x-2.5.

It seems that anytime I create an Argument to be a Sort Ascending or Descending list, the list overrides any further settings from Fields, Sort Criteria, and even Basic Settings Row Style. I can add as many Fields as I want after that, and they don't even show up.

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esmerel commented
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suffering drupal commented

I have the same problem but instead of using username I'm using Taxonomy terms: [name]/[name_1]
Everything is working correctly except that the space between words remains a space in the link URL:
/en/Tourism/Monuments and buildings

while in the real URL's the space is substituted by a hyphen.
/en/tourism/monuments-and-buildings

How and where can we tell the view to substitute those spaces for hyphens in the output?
- can it be done under "Rewrite the output of this field"
- should we add additional PHP in the code of this view? Which file, what PHP?
- invent redirects from all taxonomy term URLs with spaces to taxonomy term URLs with hyphens? (allmost all...)

By the way in our case the link text does not break on the space as in the former case (gregarios). It's just that the link maintains the spaces in more-than-one-word taxonomy terms (and upper/lower case, by the way).

View settings:

Fields
Taxonomy:Vocabulary Name
Taxonomy: Term
Node: Nid
SQL Aggregation: Group By Fields

Fliters
Taxonomy: Vocabulary = Tourism
(some more)

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suffering drupal commented

Looking at the code I get with export i find these frases:

'make_link' => 1,
'path' => '[name]/[name_1]',

could the latter one be told to substitute spaces for hyphens??

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suffering drupal commented

Same problem being addressed at http://drupal.org/node/514078

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suffering drupal commented

Merlin I have the same problem as Gregarios, see the additional comments below.

Is my information the "more info" you needed?
I am sure the solution must be something tremendously simple/stupid using some PHP substitution code for the spaces. But I am newbie (even after more than 2 years of desparing trial and error) and I just don't know.

Please inform.

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dawehner
Primary language German
commented
Status: Active » Closed (duplicate)

This will be solved with #669636: Re-structure all links handlers to support advanced rendering of links