Currently, menu trail tokens (mostly used in pathauto configuration) are built using the titles of menu item parents. Often, however, the parent item has a path alias that differs from the menu titles. E.g., a parent item may have an alias built with CCK field tokens or manually coded.

The attached patch adds a new token, ['menu-trail-parent-alias']. This token will be set to the alias (or, if there is no alias, the original path) of the menu trails parent item of the node's type.

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#1 menu-trails-parent-path-token.patch1.42 KBnedjo

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new menu-trails-parent-path-token.patch1.42 KB

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Status: Active » Needs review 
+++ menutrails.module	19 Feb 2010 19:45:13 -0000
@@ -359,6 +359,17 @@ function menutrails_token_values($type, 
+      $alias = drupal_get_path_alias($href);
+      $tokens['menu-trail-parent-alias'] = check_plain($alias);

@@ -367,6 +378,7 @@ function menutrails_token_list($type = '
     $tokens['menutrails']['menu-trail-parents-path-raw'] = t("The menu trail leading up to but NOT including the node -- RAW");
     $tokens['menutrails']['menu-trail-parents-path'] = t("The menu trail leading up to but NOT including the node");
+    $tokens['menutrails']['menu-trail-parent-alias'] = t("The path of the node's menu trail parent");

Hm - why an alias and not the path?

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The main use I have in mind is for pathauto, where we want aliases and not system paths.

Say I have a panels node with the title and menu item title "My landing page for articles." I don't want such a long alias, so rather than using a title token I manually set an alias of "articles". I set this node's menu item as the menutrails parent for nodes of type article.

Now I can configure pathauto for articles to use ['menu-trail-parents-path']/['title-raw']. If I create an article with the title "Some article", if we used the system path for the alias, we'd get node/123/some-article. By using the alias, we get what I want: articles/some-article.

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Xart commented

Thanks for ptach. I'd like this feature to include to de module.

It's useful...

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Xart commented

I'd try it and not function for me...

Has anyone using this patch?

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SophieG commented

Thanks it's working !!

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alexgreyhead commented

Unless I'm doing something wrong, this isn't working for node types which don't have a default parent set in the menutrails settings; I was hoping it would be able to pick up the path of the page's parent according to the menu system, but that's probably a project for another day. Oh well :)

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linneawilliams commented

This patch doesn't seem to be working for me. I'd like to use the node's parent's path as the base for the automated alias. Like so:

[menu-trail-parent-alias]/[title-raw]

And the [menu-trail-parent-alias] can be a hand-written/arbitrary URL.