Automatic URL generation issue

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10/13/2010 11:50:56 AM
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Automatic URL generation issue

My site administrators are having problems with the automatic URL generation. What happens is it sometimes takes a few seconds for the generated URL to populate and they end up saving a page before the URL field is populated. This problem is noticed most often with blog posts, because the URL defaults to blank and they end up with a blog post that looks normal in the list of posts, but when they click the post, they are taken to the home page (URL gets saved as ~/).

My thought is that blog posts need to have a default URL other than blank, and/or there needs to be a warning if the URL is blank, or validation that it has a value. I've tried to train site administrators to wait for the URL to get populated, but I even find myself forgetting this and saving pages without a URL.

10/15/2010 8:04:00 AM
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Re: Automatic URL generation issue

Hi,

For the next release I have added logic so if you save a blog with a blank url it will generate one server side based on the title.

I would have thought that in most cases this would not be a problem because when you create a new blog post the title has the focus first, so if you enter the title first then it would be expected that by the time you finish with the body of the post would be plenty of time for the javascript to suggest the url from the web service.

Best,

Joe

10/18/2010 11:58:20 AM
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Re: Automatic URL generation issue

Thanks! That sounds like a good solution. I find that users often put in their blog content before specifying a title. And in my experience, if there is a way for users to break software, they will find it. :-)

 

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