EB Routing Priority... Team Blog then Category
By Andy on Friday, 20 May 2016
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Just getting back to EasyBlog after a year or two away.. loving the advances, but one feature seems to be gone .....

I used to be able to set the blog routing behaviour so that if there was a Team Blog Menu Item, that would be used for the blog entry.... otherwise the category menu item would be used.

That doesn't seem possible anymore.. it seems to be a setting to either enforce Team Blog OR Category.. and the fall-back is always to the blog home page.

Is that right? or can I achieve what I used to have with old EasyBlog and still need?!

Hope that makes sense. If not here's an example....

Imagine I have 3 menu links...
http://www.mysite.com (EasyBlog Home Page)
http://www.mysite.com/teamblog (EasyBlog Team Blog Page)
http://www.mysite.com/computers (EasyBlog Category Page)

If a member of the teamblog writes a team-blog post in the computers category, I want the URL to be...
mysite.com/teamblog/blogentry (the team-blog branding is priority 1)

..but if a non teamblog person writes a post in the computers category I want the URL to be...
mysite.com/computers/blogentry
Hey Andy,

In Easyblog 5, we already simplified the routing behaviour regarding this, because in Easyblog 3.x we allow user to configure the ordering which view (category/blogger/teamblog and etc) need priority to look for first from the routing, so that you can achieve this URL format (mysite.com/teamblog/blogentry) in Easyblog 3.x.

But a lot of customers confused regarding this and having a lot of issues with these settings thus we decide to remove the ‘ordering’ feature and simplified it the routing behaviour in Easyblog 5.
Arlex Wong
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Friday, 20 May 2016 12:27
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Oh that's such a shame to hear. Makes the URL's and pages look unprofessional on a big multi-dimensional site. I understand bringing it back won't be easy.... but I'll add a Voices request for it. Certainly need it on my site to keep good control over how the blogs are routed and just as importantly, displayed with different site templates.

Here it is people... please vote for this feature to be restored! http://stackideas.com/voices/easyblog/item/1203
Andy
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Friday, 20 May 2016 20:15
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Hey Andy,

I am really appreciated that you understand this, we will see what we can do in the future version.
Arlex Wong
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Saturday, 21 May 2016 12:16
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