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I am entering entries with the same titles (they are events with the same names). When I click Publish I get the error “Duplicate Page URI”. I don’t want to have to manually add a random number on the end of the auto-generated Page URI each time.

Is there a way for the auto-generated Page URI to be unique each time?

It seems logical that the system should check whether the Page URI has already been used (like Wordpress)

It seems this is not to do with the “URL Title” field on the Publish tab, but the “Page URL” field on the Structure tab, which defaults to blank.

I will see if I can hack Structure to copy the “URL Title” field value

Here’s my solution for Structure 1.3.0 (the bug may have been fixed in v2 but that costs $65 and v1 was free):

in /system/extensions/ext.structure_ext.php line 773:

Change:

if (in_array($data['uri'], $uris)) {                    

            $errors[] = $LANG->line('duplicate_page_uri');
            
        }

For:

if (in_array($data['uri'], $uris)) {
            
            global $IN;
            
            $i = 1;
            
            while( in_array( ($IN->GBL('url_title', 'POST') . "-" . $i) , $uris) ){
                $i++;
            }
            
            $data['uri'] = $IN->GBL('url_title', 'POST') . "-" . $i;
            
            
        }

It seems logical that the system should check whether the Page URI has already been used

It does for regular entries, but with the Pages module it assumes you have a certain structure in mind. Still might make for a good Feature Request, perhaps?