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#29596 URL Redirection copy

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Latest post by on Wednesday, 30 May 2018 17:17 CDT

Thursday, 26 April 2018 23:29 CDT

roger
Hello,

I'm using admin tools URL redirection feature.

When checking one or more of the active and working redirection rules (using the checkboxes to the left) and pressing the "Copy" button, I get the error "You must specify the existing URL".

I thought this would create a copy of the selected redirections, as the standard copy article, or menu item, etc. in Joomla.

Am I doing something wrong, or maybe the Copy button is designed to perform a different task?

Thank you.

Best,
Roger.

Friday, 27 April 2018 02:51 CDT

nicholas
In hindsight, we shouldn't have added the Copy button there. You can't make an exact copy since you'd have the same source twice which is impossible. We can't make a copy with an empty source or empty target either because that also does not make sense. Only creating a new entry makes sense with the redirection feature.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

Friday, 27 April 2018 03:42 CDT

roger
How about creating the copy, but in an unpublished state?

This could speed up the process of creating similar redirections for different languages, where the only difference is the language code.

You can copy the existing URL several times, and then change the URLs on each of the copies, to then publishing each of them.
Edited by roger on 2018-04-27 03:43 CDT

Friday, 27 April 2018 05:01 CDT

nicholas
Yup, that works. Thank you for the suggestion! I have applied this to our code and it'll be published next week, on or after May 2nd (May 1st is a bank holiday here).

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

Friday, 27 April 2018 06:59 CDT

roger
Thank you for taking it into consideration!

Monday, 30 April 2018 04:32 CDT

nicholas
Thank you for making the proposal! Sometimes it's the obvious, easy things that we completely miss :)

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

Wednesday, 30 May 2018 17:17 CDT

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