Friendly URLs

Question

Hello everyone,
I'm working with the URLs, so it looks more friendly for the final user. I found some docs on that matter: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E26180_01/Platform.94/ATGProgGuide/html/s1402urltemplates01.html
For what I could understand, ATG uses the IndirectTemplate for web spiders and bots, which use the info on that URL for search indexing or something like that. And the DirectTemplate is the actual URL shown for the final user. This URL from DirectTemplate is the "dynamic" one as I could understand, wich has all the query parameters.
For example, this is a fragment of CategoryDirectTemplate.properties:
# Url template format
urlTemplateFormat={item.template.url,encode=false}?categoryId\={item.id}This shows the following: /catalog/category.jsp?categoryId=cat123.
And this is a fragment of CategoryIndirectTemplate.properties:
# Url template format
urlTemplateFormat=/jump/{item.displayName}/category/{item.id}This shows the following: /jump/My-Category-Name/category/cat123
I want to change the "dynamic" url (DirectTemplate, the one shown to the final user) to something like www.mysitedomain.com/My-Category-Name. I think it would work fine if I just changed the urlTemplateFormat.
My only question is: Does the DirectTemplate affects anything on the info collected by web spiders and bots, or only the IndirectTemplate is used for that?
Hope I made my question clear to understand.
Thanks,
Lucas

Answer 1

Hi,
According to your post, my understanding is that you want to get Friendly URLs in SharePoint 2013.
The following code snippet for your reference:
public List<string> GetPagesUrls() {
//list for saving the urls
List<string> retVal = new List<string>();
//current web
SPWeb web = SPContext.Current.Web;
//check if the current web is a publishing web
if (PublishingWeb.IsPublishingWeb(web)) {
//get the pages list id
Guid listId = PublishingWeb.GetPagesListId(web);
//retrieve the pages list
SPList pagesList = web.Lists[listId];
foreach (SPListItem item in pagesList.Items) {
//retrieve the terms used for the navigation (this can be multiple terms)
IList<NavigationTerm> terms = TaxonomyNavigation.GetFriendlyUrlsForListItem(item, false);
string url = string.Empty;
//check if the pages has terms associated with it
if (terms.Count > 0) {
//use the GetResolvedDisplayUrl to retrieve the page friendly urls
url = terms[0].GetResolvedDisplayUrl(string.Empty);
} else {
//if the page does not have any terms get the normal url
url = item.File.Url;
retVal.Add(url);
return retVal;
More information is here:
http://msftplayground.com/2013/01/retrieve-the-friendly-url-of-a-publishing-page/
Best Regards
Dennis Guo
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