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Critical Bug: SEF urls in Joomla 3.2 not working reliably for Cobalt Category Menu items

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hwdevteam VIP
Total posts: 76
17 Dec 2013 00:21

  1. Joomla will not allow the : charactor to be in a URL now, so all Category Links are broken. (existing links don't work and new/edit menu links cannot be saved.

  2. Manually adding a Category link is causing the wrong selection of Menu Items (permissions and such). It seems to relate to the inability to add an Alias to an external link (for a Cobalt Category).

I think it might be time to give users who want to display a Category list, a proper drop down link for categories in the Menu Selection process (and update the router?), the pasting of Category links manually is unreliable now in Joomla 3.2

Cheers,

Pete

Last Modified: 27 May 2015

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hwdevteam VIP
Total posts: 76
01 Mar 2015 11:55

In Short? Yes, and No.

The issue is that you cannot add a Cobalt Category Menu item - it has to be added as an External URL link manually, and even then that stoppped creating correctly formatted SEF urls. Redirecting them once generated incorrectly introduces overhead (301 redirects) and should not be needed.

I fixed my issues myself, but it needs fixing in Cobalt for everybody. Working around it is not the right way for a product as good as Cobalt to be left with.

Cheers, Pete

geojoomla Sorry to bump in, but for whoever really wants "pretty" URL's - can't you simply REDIRECT?

Either original Joomla com_redirect, or more flexible ones, like ReDJ (?)

Just saying...

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Sergey
Total posts: 13,748
02 Mar 2015 11:32

peter.needham I fixed my issues myself, but it needs fixing in Cobalt for everybody. Working around it is not the right way for a product as good as Cobalt to be left with.

How did you fix it.

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hwdevteam VIP
Total posts: 76
14 Mar 2015 12:37

Sergey

peter.needham I fixed my issues myself, but it needs fixing in Cobalt for everybody. Working around it is not the right way for a product as good as Cobalt to be left with.

How did you fix it.

I modified the router to work for me, and also created 2 menu .xml files so I can

  1. select categories as well as sections.
    1. Create a preconfigured filter URL that automaticalle reverts to its SEF name (without the long string) but still filters.

When I say it nees fixing, I mean it needs you to code it your way, rather than using my fix.

I offered the code to everybody who contacts me in the addons section.

Cheers, Pete

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hwdevteam VIP
Total posts: 76
24 May 2015 05:29

So no change since 2013 I see. Sergey - Is the SEF router being modified in Cobalt 9 to work properly ?

I asm still having to use my patched up Category compatible router in any Cobalt based sites..

It looks like in your code you got half way there.. (by storing the Menu SEF URL in the record for speed I assume :)

Cheers, Pete

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Sergey
Total posts: 13,748
27 May 2015 16:08

Show me your patch and I can include it into next release.

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