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Field Input-Type string-url-path

Use this field type to manage url-paths which you'll usually use to identify an item. For example, if you have a blog and each post has a url with the name, this is the field that you need to match the url to the item. It stores a string/text data. It's an extension of the basic string field type.

Features

  1. ensure that only url-safe characters are used
  2. automatically generate a url based on one or many other fields when editing the first time
  3. keeps the generated url stable later on
  4. also allows manual editing if needed

Configuring a String-Url-Path

This shows the configuration dialog:

  • Auto Generate... here you can build a template how the url should be auto-generated
  • Allow Slashes this let's you choose if slashes are desired in this url-fragment - in most cases you don't want slashes

Read more

  1. Read this post & watch the video when we introduced it

History

  1. Introduced in EAV 4.0 2sxc 8.3