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Changing Name in URL does not reflect links

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In the Episerver CMS: changing "Name in URL" after the page has been published and linked to doesn't seem to work. Links still use the old URL. Even after remove/add.

Previous links refer to the old url which doesn't exist anymore, but the new url however does work.

What gives? I'm on Episerver.Cms.AspNet 11.3.4.0

#192022
May 03, 2018 16:04
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Hi Peter, I tested this with Alloy with the EPiServer.CMS NuGet package version 11.5.4 (so EPiServer.CMS.AspNet is also 11.5.4) and couldn't reproduce.

I created two pages, page-a and page-b. Then I create a link in tinymce from page-b to page-a. I also added the Button block so there is a content reference property to page-a. Then I changed the address of page-a to page-a-modified. The link in TinyMCE editor content on page-b was correctly updated and so was the content reference based link in the Button block.

Are you using any add-ons to track page URL changes and then to automatically create a redirect from old address to the new address? How are you creating these links that don't work? In the TinyMce editor (which version 1.x or 2.x)? Using a content reference property? Something else?

#192030
May 03, 2018 19:30
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How are you linking the page and in the view how are you rendering the link?

#192040
May 03, 2018 23:38
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Hi all thanks for the interest in helping.

I'm not using addons.

Creating links:
On a page I have a block which is rendered in its Xhtml MainBody property (dragged).

This block has a property: EPiServer.Url DetailsUrl, in EPiServer/Cms I click "Create Link" and choose the page.

In the View.cshtml I'm rendering it like so:

<a href="@Model.Current.DetailsUrl">@Model.Current.ChangeContactsText</a>

Where Current is the block type which is populated in the controller Index from the currentPage parameter.

EPiServer.Cms.TinyMce version 2.1.1.0

When hovering the link in the browser, the link says

<a href="/link/a2ef561e1b324b668dbcb3fd6a5c12dd.aspx">Ret kontakter</a>

When clicking the link I am referred to the old Url which is now gone, so I get HTTP Error 404.0 - Not Found. I did reload the page.

Changing the url back to the original in EPiServer/Cms makes the page link work again.

I did try re-adding the link after URL change in the "Create Link" page.

#192047
May 04, 2018 8:46
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Hi Peter, you should be using the @Url.ContentUrl(Model.Current.DetailsUrl) to render the friendly url of the page.

#192048
May 04, 2018 8:56
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Hi Antti that works!

Thanks!

A bit odd the old link is referred to when not using @Url.ContentUrl. Seems like the original url has some special meaning.

#192049
May 04, 2018 9:03
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In your case since you did not use @Url.ContentUrl but wrote out the value directly the link will be the in internal permanent guidbased format. There is a special route that handles those permanent links but that route will do a permanent redirect to the FURL. So in your case you had probably visited that page before and therefore had the browser cached the redirection (which was with the old segment)

#192051
May 04, 2018 9:16
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