Friendly URLs
Friendly URLs make it easier to publicize areas of your website. Occassionally URLs generated by a CMS can be long and not particularly user friendly. Jadu Central lets you set up your own Friendly URLs via the Utilities module.
Navigating to the Friendly URL area
- Click the Utilities icon in the left navigation bar. The Utilities menu will open.
- Click the Friendly URLs link in the first group of links. The list of "Friendly URLs" will now be shown.
Friendly URL fields
| Field | Notes | Required? |
|---|---|---|
| Friendly name | This is the friendly name that can be added to the end of your site address to access the web page in question (e.g. www.jadu.net/mobile). | ✅ |
| Actual address | This is the actual address of the page that the Friendly URL points to. | ✅ |
Illegal characters should NOT be used within a friendly name. For example @, £, #, >, *. Also, spaces between words should NOT be used.
If either are used then it will create error messages on your website and in effect, break it. Only letters and numbers can be used.
Reserved and Excluded Friendly URLs
Some terms are reserved by Jadu Central to display out of the box functionality, and are not available to create friendly URLs.
In addition, friendly URLs must not replicate a term that is used as a Galaxies site shortcut or a URL slug.
Reserved terms include:
| Friendly term | Usage in Jadu Central |
|---|---|
account | Used by site account functionality to display a registered site visitor's activities. |
arcgis-map | Used by the Jadu Central ESRI ArcGIS integration. |
councillors | Used to display a list of councillors from the councillor content type. |
events | Used to display a list of events from the events content type. |
form | Used for displaying forms when built using the classic form builder. |
jadu | Used to display the Jadu Central administration panel. |
logout | Used by site account functionality to close a site visitor's session. |
meetings | Used to display a list of meetings from the Meeting & Minute content type. |
news | Used to display a list of news articles from the news content type. |
redirect | |
register | The site account registration form. |
services | Directory for A to Z service exports. |
Bulk import
Friendly URLs can be imported in bulk into your system using a CSV file. 5000 friendly URLs can be imported in each upload.
To bulk import friendly URLs, try the following:
- Navigate to the Friendly URL management area.
- Click the Actions menu, and select Bulk import from the available options. The Bulk import panel will open.
- Locate the CSV file on your computer using the Browse... button, and select the Import action. You can either replace all friendly URLs with the uploaded content, or add the friendly URLs to those currently in Jadu Central.
- Click the Import button to trigger the import. If the file is large, it may take some time for the URLs to be imported.
- After the file has been successfully imported, a success message is shown. Click the Done button to continue.
Your CSV file should use the following format:
originURL,shortcutURL
http://10.105.2.172/events/event/1/farmers_market,farmers_market
http://10.105.2.172/downloads/download/1/city_map,city_map