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Hello. I’m having an issue with creating path names that make sense. I think it’s just the way I’ve created my template groups but I’m not sure. Perhaps this will be obvious to someone with more experience.

Below are the three paths that are created when you navigate to the Cheetah Safari page. Cheetah Safari is a trip available under Eastern Africa which is listed under Africa.

Here’s what I have currently:
http://localhost:8888/bigplanet_test/continent/africa
http://localhost:8888/bigplanet_test/continent/country/eastern-africa
http://localhost:8888/bigplanet_test/continent/trip/cheetah-safari

What I would rather display is this:
http://localhost:8888/bigplanet_test/africa
http://localhost:8888/bigplanet_test/africa/eastern-africa
http://localhost:8888/bigplanet_test/africa/eastern-africa/cheetah-safari

I’m using related entries to pull in the countries and trips.

Here’s some sample code that I have in the index page of the Continent template group:
{exp:channel:entries channel="continents" limit="1"}

<h1>{title}</h1>
{contient_description}

Countries

  <ul>
  {related_countries}
  <li>{title}</li>
  {/related_countries}
  </ul>

{/exp:channel:entries}

Is this an issue that’s handled at the template level or is it category related? Excuse me if this is an obvious noob issue as I’m still trying to wrap my head around EE.

Thanks!

You could use your default template group’s index template to display relevent content.

{!-- home page --}
{if segment_1 == ""}

  Home page content

{/if}

{!-- test for non home page --}
{if segment_1 != ""}

  {!-- continent level page --}
  {if segment_2 == ""}

    {exp:channel:entries channel="continents" limit="1"}
    <h1>{title}</h1>
    {contient_description}
    <h2>Countries</h2>
<p>    <ul><br />
    {related_countries}<br />
    <li><a href="http://{path={segment_1}/{url_title}}">{title}</a></li><br />
    {/related_countries}<br />
    </ul><br />
    {/exp:channel:entries}<br />
  <br />
  {/if}</p>

<p>  {!-- country level page --}<br />
  {if segment_2 != ""}</p>

<p>    {exp:channel:entries channel="countries" limit="1" url_title="{segment_2}"}<br />
    <h1>{title}</h1><br />
    {country_description}<br />
    {/exp:channel:entries}<br />
  <br />
  {/if}</p>

<p>{/if}

Something like that would give you a URL structure of http://www.site.com/continent/country - may need a tweak but that’s what I’d look at first.