Duplicate Alias Bug - trying to avoid with NewsPublisher Extra

Hi,
there has been reported a bug that since 2.4.1 - Revo is creating a duplicated document or a NewsPublisher Resource using the same alias, and there is no warning to the user:
https://github.com/modxcms/revolution/issues/12687

In NewsPublisher by Bob Ray you can avoid duplicate alias names by aliasprefix property: prefixing alias with a timestamp. As I have to store even minutes because of plenty ressources, that's getting pretty long.

I was looking for a way to prefix (or to append) an id to the alias, this way avoiding ugly timestamps and date formats.

Does anybody (Bob?) see a way to do this?

Or has there been found another solution I may miss? Thanks!

Yea, seems to be a serious problem.
MODX should not allow it in the very first place, within the same context

NewsPublisher - http://bobsguides.com/newspublisher-tutorial.html

&aliastitle — (0/1) Use this if you want an automatic alias for your resources (a hyphenated, lowercase version of the pagetitle).
&aliasprefix — (string) prefix for aliases, used only if alias is empty. Alias will be prefix + raw unix timestamp, unless &aliasdateformat is set.
&aliasdateformat — (string) Format for alias timestamp. If alias is empty and this is set, the alias will be the prefix (if any) + a formatted date/time. It's strongly recommended to include minutes and seconds in this to avoid duplicate aliases.

[ed. note: donshakespeare last edited this post 8 years, 3 months ago.]