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Posted October 21st, 2009 by troy_cantrell
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Has anyone worked with wCM long enough and have multiple site where the navigation is in folder structures and causing long URLs with duplicate folder names?  See below, the site name wcmdemo is listed once for the navigation and once for the content, can this be changed?  I have setup a second app server and single site in IIS to host it at a native URL without the need for the site name so that will help, but it still adds more to the URL then is necessary and will impact the nice clean URLs that wCM should have.

 

Any help would be great.

http://ecm-test/imis15/wcmdemo/About/wcmdemo/About.aspx?hkey=9876bfa3-a6...

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Troy:See this article for

On October 22nd, 2009 Eric Means says:

Troy:

See this article for an explanation of the WCM URLs. As noted in that article, I have some ideas on ways to improve it, but I don't know when those will happen. If they're important to you, please bring them up to your favorite PM; the more they hear it from customers, the higher priority it will get. :)

.NET 4.0 will add some very nice features for using clean URLs without having extraordinarily complex behind-the-scenes code (like we have now), which should also help quite a bit.

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Better URLs

On October 22nd, 2009 troy_cantrell says:

Thanks Eric, I will pursue from this end to help the cause.  It seems like someone would have considered that, with url's like that I wonder how it will affect search engine results and search indexing.

We are able to get them pretty clean by setting up an IIS SITE to run it so we will end up with

tourism.visitcalifornia.com/About/tourism/About.aspx?hkey=9876bfa3-a6...

 

We will have to be cleaver with our folder and document names to help make it look cleaner. 

Do you know if wCM was built from scratch or was it acquired? 

Have you seen or done anything on the backend to re-write the URLs

 

Troy Cantrell Director Information Technology California Travel and Tourism Commission

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WCM was built from scratch,

On October 22nd, 2009 Eric Means says:

WCM was built from scratch, as a ground-up ASP.NET replacement for eCM.

I haven't tried doing any URL rewriting; WCM does a certain amount internally, although I'm really hoping to clean that up a lot with .NET 4.0's really clean support for URL routing.

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Any timeline

On October 22nd, 2009 troy_cantrell says:

Do you know of any timeline for the changes?  And who is the PM for wCM?

 

 

 

Troy Cantrell Director Information Technology California Travel and Tourism Commission

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The timeline depends

On October 22nd, 2009 Eric Means says:

The timeline depends entirely on the priorities assigned by PM.

You probably want to talk to Brian Lindsey; if he's not the PM he can point you in the right direction.

Eric Means
System Architect, ASI

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