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Hi - is there any documentation about setting Channel Path Preferences? I can’t quite get my head around what I should be setting…

For example I’ve created a channel for news articles aptly named ‘news’. I’ve also created a new template group called ‘news’, with the 2 templates named ‘index’ and ‘article’.

I’d expect the landing page, showing the excepts of the latest 10 articles at this url, using the ‘index’ template within my ‘news’ template group:

http://mysite.com/news/

To then view an article via a template in the ‘news’ template group:

http://mysite.com/news/article/this_is_my_article

So, what should the settings be in my Channel Preferences for news? Or am I going about this the wrong way??

Thanks.

Lee,

One example of using these paths is the variable {comment_url_title_auto_path} which is replaced by the URL set in the “Comment Page URL” which would be something like http://mysite.com/news/article/

{exp:channel:entries channel="news" limit="10"}
<h3>{title}</h3>
<p>{summary}<br />
<a href="http://{comment_url_title_auto_path}">Read More</a><br />
{/exp:channel:entries}

Does that help?

Hi John,

Thanks for your reply.

So, for my news channel, the other paths would be:

Channel URL: http://mysite.com/news
Search Results URL: http://mysite.com/news/search
Ping Results URL: http://mysite.com/news/ping
RSS Results URL: http://mysite.com/news/rss

Is that correct? Also, should they end with a slash?

Thanks.

Hi, Lee. No, they don’t need to end in a slash. Assuming that’s where you want your items to go… then the paths are OK.

Hi Sue,

Thanks for your reply.

I think the point is I’m not sure if that’s where I want/should have them going. In what case and how do these other paths get used?

Thanks.

When you click on a search result, you want to go to a single entry template, to just view that entry. Normally if you’re using the Agile theme, that would be a comments template.

Same with the ping url. It goes to a single entry template. Now if you’re wanting to keep track of where your hits are coming from, you could use separate templates. Otherwise, just use your comments/single entry page.

For the RSS setting, where is your RSS feed at? That’s the path for that setting.

Does that help?

Excuse me being a newcomer to EE - but I don’t understand why I would use a comments template to view an article?

Thanks.

why I would use a comments template to view an article?

While details are up to you, of course, this is quite a common setup: you have an “index” page with a list of articles, and a secondary, single-entry template that also includes a comment form. You could certainly use yet another template for that purpose, too.

Thanks for all the help with this - now I’m in the middle of my first EE build, I can see how valuable these paths are 😊

Completely ‘get’ them now.

Glad to hear it! Don’t hesitate to post again as needed.