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Hi there,

I’m trying to find out if there’s a way to set the template group in link paths dynamically. Let me explain:

I’m building a site that has three main sections, which are divided using three different channels and three different template groups.

When linking from an article, I can simply specify the template group like so:

<a href="http://{url_title_path=/get-the-know-how/article}">

{exp:tag:entries inclusive="yes" orderby="entry_date" sort="asc" limit="20" paginate="bottom"}_      <div class="full-story">_       <div class="full-thumbnail">_        {if image_square_thumbnail != ""}_         <a href="{url_title_path='/get-the-know-how/article'}">_          {exp:ce_img:single src="{image_square_thumbnail}" width="150" height="150" crop="yes"}_         </a>
        {if:else}
         <a href="http://{url_title_path=/get-the-know-how/article}">_          {exp:ce_img:single src="{image_large_image}" width="150" height="150" crop="yes"}_         </a>
        {/if}
       </div>
       <div class="full-info">
        <h2><a href="http://{url_title_path=/get-the-know-how/article}">{exp:low_widont}{title}{/exp:low_widont}</a></h2>
<p>        Date: {entry_date format="%d/%m/%y"}  |  Author: <span class="orange">{author}</span></p>

<p>         Tags: <span class="orange"><br />
          {exp:tag:tags<br />
             entry_id="{entry_id}"<br />
             backspace="2"<br />
             orderby="tag_name"<br />
             sort="desc"}<br />
             <a href="http://{path=}tag/{websafe_tag}">{tag}</a>,{/exp:tag:tags}</span><br />
        {exp:low_widont}{introduction}{/exp:low_widont}<br />
        <a href="http://{url_title_path=/get-the-know-how/article}class=read-more">Read more</a><br />
       </div><br />
      </div><br />
     {/exp:tag:entries}

Moved to Community Help forum by Moderator

Hi Tom,

Do your channel short names match the template group names, i.e. “get-the-know-how”?

If so, you could use {channel_short_name} to construct your links.

Just an idea.

Cheers,
S.

Hi, Tom. Since you’re asking about a third party add-on, I’m going to move this to the Community Help forum for additional community support.

Thanks for the assist, Steve!

Thanks Steve, brilliant suggestion.

My template groups and channels now match, but I’m getting an error from the link.

Code is as follows:

{url_title_path="/{channel_short_name}/article”}

Am I using the wrong path type (i.e. url_title_path or path etc.)?

Hi Tom,

It might be worth building your links manually, rather than using url_title_path, see if that sorts the issue first, i.e.:

<a href="/{channel_short_name}/{url_title}">

Cheers,
Steve.

Worked a treat, thanks Steve.

Do you know what url_title_path does? I don’t understand why you wouldn’t just build links the way you have above as they’re still dynamic surely?

Generally I do always tend to manually build links, but it very much depends on each person’s situation and how you build your templates.

One thing to keep in mind is that with the automatic links, should you decide to change index.php (hide it, change it’s name) or other similar changes, the path= or url_title_path= will update automatically. With your manual links you’ll need to change them yourself. Not a common occurrence in most cases though I suspect.

Glad you got sorted though.
Cheers,
Steve.