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I’ve created a template group called “articles” that allows for pdfs to be uploaded with author, description, title, and a few other custom weblog fields for the publish page. Works fine so far.

However, when I use the default advanced search page in the “search” template group, it doesn’t work. When I search for an article it brings up a link to that article, but the URL is wrong which makes me think that the {auto_path} tag on the search results page isn’t working properly. On click it sends me to site.com/entry but should send me to site.com/articles/entry.

Any thoughts on what I might be doing wrong?

Thanks!

The auto_path variable uses the path specified in ‘Admin- Weblog Admin- Weblog Management’- edit each weblog- and in the ‘Paths’ section, make sure the search path points to the template you want to use for each individual weblog when displaying search results.

See if that’s the issue.  The path should be the full url with a trailing slash- and EE will add the url_title for the single entry.  So if you want the search going to articles/entry?  You’d use http://mysite.com/index.php/articles/entry/ and it should send you to the articles template group, entry template- with the appropriate single entry indicator on the end.

Thank you so much, Robin! That did it!

Unfortunately, I’m having the same problem with the permalink at the bottom of the post! I looked in the path preferences for that weblog but there is nothing about the permalink there. I’ll keep looking. If someone knows the answer to this as well, I’m grateful!

Can you paste the code, or give us a link, to where you mean, so we can see it? I suspect there’s something like title_permalink pointing to an incorrect template.

Alright, I’m officially a dunderhead. What a rookie mistake! Oh wait, I am a rookie. 😊 At the top of that template was the following: {assign_variable:my_template_group="site"}. It should have been: {assign_variable:my_template_group="articles"}.

Thanks, Lisa, your post made me look at the code! Sorry for wasting time!

No worries at all! I’m happy you spotted it because I wouldn’t have known you changed the main template group. We would have found it but after a bit more back and forth.

Most, though not all, items are handled in the template, so that’s often a good place to start looking. =)