Duplicate an Article - same alias

This is just a very small niggle. When I duplicate an article, I get to change the title and the published status in a popup box. However, the alias doesn't change automatically. While I always remember to change the published date to today, I find it easy to forget to change the alias and now I end up with 2 articles having the same alias . . . Would it be possible to change the alias of the duplicated article to the new title at the time of duplication? Thanks.

Quote from: RuthEd at Oct 01, 2013, 03:24 AM

This is just a very small niggle. When I duplicate an article, I get to change the title and the published status in a popup box. However, the alias doesn't change automatically. While I always remember to change the published date to today, I find it easy to forget to change the alias and now I end up with 2 articles having the same alias . . . Would it be possible to change the alias of the duplicated article to the new title at the time of duplication? Thanks.

Will likely need a pull request creating for the GitHub repo for the Articles extra: https://github.com/splittingred/Articles or an issue raising on http://tracker.modx.com/

Articles is now on GitHub here https://github.com/modxcms/Articles/

and issues are here
https://github.com/modxcms/Articles/issues

Are all the original SplittingRed extras now moved into the MODX account on GitHub?

Quote from: pdincubus at Oct 04, 2013, 05:21 AM

Are all the original SplittingRed extras now moved into the MODX account on GitHub?

Yes. Actually just finished going through all the open PRs on most of the splittingred branches.

Quote from: dinocorn at Oct 04, 2013, 06:26 AM

Quote from: pdincubus at Oct 04, 2013, 05:21 AM

Are all the original SplittingRed extras now moved into the MODX account on GitHub?

Yes. Actually just finished going through all the open PRs on most of the splittingred branches.

Excellent, good to know that things are being brought up to speed! Is there any fixes in there for Wayfinder cross context links? I'll go have a look.

I think the Wayfinder issue is actually a core bug being fixed in 2.2.10. If I track down the bug ticket I will post it here

Obviously a fix in articles is the best option, but I have an extra coming out soon called SiteCheck that will list the resources with duplicate aliases and provide a link to edit them.

Quote from: BobRay at Oct 04, 2013, 05:36 PM

Obviously a fix in articles is the best option, but I have an extra coming out soon called SiteCheck that will list the resources with duplicate aliases and provide a link to edit them.

This sounds very useful, I spend quite a lot of time going through client sites and sifting through the error logs to find the resource IDs that need fixing!