Automatically insert ID to the Resource-Alias

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agssl Reply #1, 15 years, 2 months ago

Hi,

there’s a little bug in Revo 2.1.2, so that I’m not able to save a few documents with the same pagetitle in the same subfolder (I’m using the Extra Autofolders). I’ve seen that this bug is already reported.

Now I need a fast workaround, so I can insert all my content.

My idea was, to automatically set the ID of the Resource as the value of the Resource-Alias. I don’t need friendly URLS in this subfolders, because that are only PDF-Attachements.

Is there an easy solution with an on-safe snippet or something. Or can I disable the friendly URLs for one folder?

Thanks in advance an sorry for my bad english

Greetings from Germany

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BobRay Reply #2, 15 years, 2 months ago

You definitely don’t want to be setting resource IDs. How about appending a timestamp to the pagetitle in a plugin attached to OnBeforeDocFormSave with something like this:

<?php

$title = $resource->get('pagetitle');
$resource->set('pagetitle', $title . time() );

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agssl Reply #3, 15 years, 2 months ago

Yes … that would exactly meet the desired purpose. The main thing there is a clear alias.
Unfortunately, my skills are not good enough for writting such a plugin.

Can someone give me help or is there already a solution for something like this.

Thanks again … and thanks for your fast response.

++
;) too fast … i will give it a try

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BobRay Reply #4, 15 years, 2 months ago

Try just creating a new plugin called AddTime and pasting this code into it. On the Plugin’s System Events tab, check OnBeforeDocFormSave and save the plugin. I amended it so it only executes when creating a new document. Otherwise, it will add the time again every time you save a resource.

You probably only want it to work on docs with a certain parent, rather than all docs on the site. The second test should take care of that. Change 12 to the ID of the appropriate parent resource. It will only work on immediate children of that resource. Let me know if you want to test for multiple parents (and provide their ID numbers).

I just tested it and it works.

<?php
if ($mode != modSystemEvent::MODE_NEW) return;

if ($resource->get('parent') != 12) return;

$title = $resource->get('pagetitle');
$resource->set('pagetitle', $title . time() );
return;

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agssl Reply #5, 15 years, 2 months ago

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BobRay Reply #6, 15 years, 2 months ago

Change 12 to the ID of the appropriate template (shown in parentheses in the Element tree).

Just don’t forget to set the template before saving each resource. wink

<?php
if ($mode != modSystemEvent::MODE_NEW) return;

if ($resource->get('template') != 12) return;

$title = $resource->get('pagetitle');
$resource->set('pagetitle', $title . time() );
return;

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agssl Reply #7, 15 years, 2 months ago

Perfect … works very well!!!

Here’s the code I#m working with.

<?php
if ($mode != modSystemEvent::MODE_NEW) return;

if ($resource->get('template') != 14) return;

$title = $resource->get('alias');
$time = $resource->get('createdon',' %d_%m_%Y %s');
$resource->set('alias', $title . $time );
return;

Thanks a lot BobRay!!!

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lx Reply #8, 13 years, 5 months ago

@BobRay: I've used the plugin that You shared and it deosn't work on Revo 2.2.7?
I've changed the template id and selected OnBeforeDocFormSave and still I get this message:
Resource 83 is already using the URI katowice.html. Please enter a unique alias or use Freeze URI to manually override it.

Here is this code:

<?php
if ($mode != modSystemEvent::MODE_NEW) return;
 
if ($resource->get('template') != 1) return;
 
$title = $resource->get('alias');
$time = $resource->get('createdon',' %d_%m_%Y %s');
$resource->set('alias', $title . $time );
return;

Did something significantly changed in Revo 2.2.7 ?

Lucas from AroundCyprus.net

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BobRay Reply #9, 13 years, 5 months ago

It might have. Do you have the auto-alias system setting on? That could be an issue.

I don't see why it wouldn't work, since that should be a unique alias.

You may have to change it to set the actual uri and set uri_override to true;

Something like this:

if ($mode != modSystemEvent::MODE_NEW) return;
  
if ($resource->get('template') != 1) return;
  
$title = $resource->get('alias');
$time = $resource->get('createdon',' %d_%m_%Y %s');
$alias = $title . $time;
$resource->set('uri', $alias);
$resource->set('uri_override', 1);
$resource->save();
return;

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lx Reply #10, 13 years, 5 months ago

Thanks Bob, but unfortunately still it doesn't work.
It seam like the alias is being checked for duplicated even before OnBeforeFormSave event occurs.

I've checked if the plugin works for generating and writing other fields ex longtitle, and it worked fine.

Lucas from AroundCyprus.net