Ok title maybe a bit shady, but this is whats going on.

When someone creates a node (in the forum is where i get this) with a title like ??? or ... and maybe also with other characters (not tested). There is no path generated.

I use the the following path for forum items

forum/[term-raw]/[title-raw]

Anyone got an idea how to fix this, and is this even addressed, couldnt find it in the issues

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greggles
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Status: Active » Closed (duplicate)

This seems like a duplicate of #631460: Prevent pathauto_cleanstring() from creating empty components which I just gave a better title.

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Michsk commented

Yes it looks like a kind of duplicate of that issue. The thing is that it's not really a bug tough, it's got to do with the settings. I set them to delete punctuation and question marks. But if the title only exists of those characters there should be some kind of fallout.

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Well, your problem is with the punctuation, there problem is with the strings to remove, but ultimately the end result is the same: If Pathauto is about to clean a token down to nothing it should insert a stub of some sort.

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check_markup in core, for example, uses "n/a" when there is no text at the end of its processing.