FUP, Ventrian NewsArticle and print url

Hello

I have tried to investigate this point a little bit further and I have found that when testing the print link in FUP's test feature, parts of the url are rewritten (according to the rule we have defined for News Articles urls and that is already in place).

It seems that the News Articles module does not convert the print link into a friendly url when rendering this link.

Sebastien

Hello Sebastien,

It's entirely possible that Ventrian doesn't pass the url to the DotNetNuke rewriting framework but rather writes it directly. In this case there is not much that can be done; FUP interacts with urls that are fed into the rewriting pipeline but cannot reach out of the pipeline to change other urls.

Your best bet would be to contact the Ventrian community to see if there are workarounds to the problem: maybe there is another token that is rewritten, or maybe the token system can be used to somehow force the print url into FUP.

Best regards,
Samy

Hi Samy

Thanks for your answer.

I found a similar case for links inside the content of an article.

For example if in the content of an article there is a link to another article and if behind this link you have the raw url of the article:
- when you hover over this link you will see the raw url (when you hover over other links (in News Articles Latest module for example) you see the friendly url): probably also because the DNN rewriting framework is bypassed in that case
- but when you click on this link you are redirected to the article with the friendly url (because we have enbled option "301 redirects" in FUP)

A solution to this (to see the friendly url when hovering over the links in the content) would be to associate the friendly url to the link. But if doing this you will have broken links if you change the title of an article without refreshing the links in the other articles.

I will try to get in touch with the Ventrian support

Thanks

Sebastien

Well your findings are consistent with the way DNN handles structured content vs free content.
Free content (e.g. the content of a HTML module) is not rewritten, so any url that you write in the HTML module is left as is. Structured content (e.g. the Links module) is rewritten. The "Latest" module sound like a structured content module, hence the rewriting. An article is - of course - a free content module.

If i may suggest a possible solution for the print link, perhaps you could use a small custom skin object that builds the print link from the current url and displays it rewritten; then place it using css and/or js where needed, this way the link will be rewritten, yet look like its originating from the template to the end user.

Best regards,
Samy