Ditto and SEF URL's

Hi,

I have created an articles folder with all my article pages in there (surprise ), I have also created a main menu link to this folder. I have also created call to this page using ditto, this display the last three articles on my home page. Here is the code:

<!-- LATEST ARTICLES FOLLOW -->
<h4 class="no_margin_top">Latest Articles</h4>
[!Ditto? &amp;startID=`10` &amp;tpl=`newsChunk` &amp;summarize=`3` &amp;multiLevel=3 &amp; &amp;paginate=`1` &amp;paginateAlwaysShowLinks=`1`]]
<!-- END OF LATEST ARTICLES -->

Ok, on to my problem. When I click on an article from the main articles page, you are given the nice SEF URL, something like:

/my_new_article_1.html

However, when I click from the feed I have placed on the home page, the url doesn’t display like the above (even though it is the same page, it displays something like this:

/20

This is the content ID number. So how do I get my SEF URL’s consistant throughout the site when calling from Ditto?

Thanks
Lee

Can you clarify: is the same template used on both pages?

I suspect that the alias of document ID 20 is empty...

Hope this helps.

regards.

zi

it is not empty, it displays the url.

Thanks
Lee

What are the templates being used?

Probably doing this wrong but I have created the following chunk:

<ul class="news">
<li><a href="[+id+]"><span>[+date+]</span> // [+title+]</a></li>
</ul>

Which I simply call from my home page using:

[!Ditto? &amp;startID=`10` &amp;tpl=`newsChunk` &amp;summarize=`3` &amp;multiLevel=3 &amp; &amp;paginate=`1` &amp;paginateAlwaysShowLinks=`1`]]

It displays exactly as I would like it too, its just the urls that don’t seem to inherit their original name.

Thanks
Lee

Well that’s because ditto’s [+id+] isn’t automatically turned into the alias. (Which is a good thing, it lets me create QuickEdit links).

Try replacing [+id+] with [+alias+].html in your template and all should be well. (There is probably a fancier way too, but this will work.)

EDIT: What Ditto template are you using on the main articles page (the one that works)?

Hi,

to make the right URL be automatically generated by modx

Shouldn’t it be

<ul class="news">
<li><a href="[~[+id+]~]"><span>[+date+]</span> // [+title+]</a></li>
</ul>

:-)

Thank you heliotrope, couldn’t have said it better myself.

Thanks so much That works great.

Lee