I have display name in URL disabled:
<linkManager defaultProvider="sitecore">
<providers>
<clear />
<add name="sitecore" type="Sitecore.Links.LinkProvider, Sitecore.Kernel" addAspxExtension="false" alwaysIncludeServerUrl="false" encodeNames="true" languageEmbedding="never" languageLocation="filePath" lowercaseUrls="false" shortenUrls="true" useDisplayName="false" />
</providers>
</linkManager>
But I can still browse to the display name. I have no custom ItemResolver. I can't figure out why I can browse to these pages by display name.
It's LinkProvider which is responsible for url generation. It has nothing to do with browsing to the url.
For browsing the url you would need to write your own ItemResolver.
Default Sitecore ItemResolver class has a method which tries to resolve item based on its display name and there is no setting which would allow you to disable it out of the box.
It is because you are just setting the Link Provider to not use Display Names when generating the links.
Sitecores Link Provider and Item Resolver use different code. In the item resolver, if the item cannot be resolved by the direct path it calls this code:
Item obj2 = this.ResolveUsingDisplayName(args);
So it will also resolve by the display name.
To change that you would need to override the ItemResovler and remove that line of code.
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This seems trivial, yet I can't find an existing answer online...
I'm using Sitecore and I have configured it to use an item's display name to generate its url (using the "useDisplayName" setting).
Now, when I have an item with display name "Test, with commä"
I would expect Sitecore's LinkManager to provide me with a valid URL:
/nl-NL/ContentPage/Test%2C-with-comm%C3%A4
However, it gives me an URL with the invalid characters not encoded:
/nl-NL/ContentPage/Test,-with-commä
Now I know I can make exceptions for specific characters, but that's not the point. I'd like Sitecore to remove ANY illegal URL characters with their encoded counterparts.
Isn't there a setting or a simple way to achieve this?
Unfortunately Sitecore does not support encoding url parts in a way you want it.
And encodeNames="true" only tells Sitecore to use what is configured in encodeNameReplacements setting.
You have 2 options:
Contact with Sitecore Support and tell them about this bug.
Override LinkProvider class and encode urls:
public class CustomLinkProvider : Sitecore.Links.LinkProvider
{
public override string GetItemUrl(Item item, UrlOptions options)
{
var itemUrl = base.GetItemUrl(item, options);
// your code to encode the url
return itemUrl;
}
}
<configuration xmlns:patch="http://www.sitecore.net/xmlconfig/">
<sitecore>
<linkManager>
<providers>
<add name="sitecore">
<patch:attribute name="type">My.Assembly.Namespace.CustomLinkProvider,My.Assembly</patch:attribute>
</add>
</providers>
</linkManager>
</sitecore>
</configuration>
We upgraded our solution from Sitecore 8.1 Update 1 to Update 2. Our URL's are generated from display name and that was working fine.
But after upgrading, the behaviour changed to URL generation from item name although ShowConfig.aspx still shows "useDisplayName="true" for .
We're using the following config:
<configuration xmlns:patch="http://www.sitecore.net/xmlconfig/">
<sitecore>
<linkManager defaultProvider="sitecore">
<providers>
<clear/>
<add name="sitecore">
<patch:attribute name="addAspxExtension">false</patch:attribute>
<patch:attribute name="useDisplayName">true</patch:attribute>
<patch:attribute name="languageEmbedding">never</patch:attribute>
<patch:attribute name="alwaysIncludeServerUrl">true</patch:attribute>
</add>
</providers>
</linkManager>
</sitecore>
Now all links only show a 404. What am I missing?
We tried on an empty solution and it's the same behaviour. So it is a Sitecore bug.
We contacted Sitecore Support. They introduced a new setting in Update 2 in Sitecore.config.
<setting name="ItemResolving.FindBestMatch" value="DeepScan" />
This setting needs to be set to:
<setting name="ItemResolving.FindBestMatch" value="Disabled" />
It was supposed to solve the following bug:
96805: Item could have been unresolved with specific encodeNameReplacement and wildcard/display name resolving logic
This is now registered as a bug with the reference number 105324.
I need to get a specific item based on it's displayname, how do I do that?
For example I want to get this item /sitecore/content/mysite/about
But on the site is translated to multiple languages and could be something like www.site.com/om (in Sitecore it would be /sitecore/content/mysite/om)
There are a couple approaches you can take. The most efficent is to leverage the Content Search API, but the challenge is that Display Name is excluded from the index by default. A simple patch file can fix this:
<configuration xmlns:patch="http://www.sitecore.net/xmlconfig/">
<sitecore>
<contentSearch>
<indexConfigurations>
<defaultLuceneIndexConfiguration>
<exclude>
<__display_name>
<patch:delete />
</__display_name>
</exclude>
</defaultLuceneIndexConfiguration>
</indexConfigurations>
</contentSearch>
</sitecore>
</configuration>
Then your code would be something like:
public Item GetItemByDisplayName(string displayName)
{
var searchIndex = ContentSearchManager.GetIndex("sitecore_master_index"); // sub your index name
using (var context = searchIndex.CreateSearchContext())
{
var searchResultItems =
context.GetQueryable<SearchResultItem>().Where(i => i["Display Name"].Equals(displayName)).FirstOrDefault();
return searchResultItems == null ? null : searchResultItems.GetItem();
}
}
This all is assuming you are on Sitecore 7. If you're on Sitecore 6, your option are limited and are probably not going to perform well if you content tree is large. Nonetheless, your function might look like:
public Item GetItemByDisplayName(string displayName)
{
var query = string.Format("fast:/sitecore/content//*[#__Display Name='{0}']", displayName);
var item = Sitecore.Context.Database.SelectSingleItem(query);
return item;
}
Please note that this will be horribly inefficent since under the covers this is basically walking the content tree.
Often, you wouldn't need to. LinkManager (responsible for generating all your item URLs) has an option to base the URLs on Display Name instead of Item.Name.
var d = LinkManager.GetDefaultUrlOptions();
d.UseDisplayName = true;
This can also be configured in configuration. Find and amend this section in your Web.config (or patch it via include files):
<linkManager defaultProvider="sitecore">
<providers>
<clear />
<add name="sitecore" type="Sitecore.Links.LinkProvider, Sitecore.Kernel"
addAspxExtension="false" alwaysIncludeServerUrl="false" encodeNames="true"
languageEmbedding="never" languageLocation="filePath" lowercaseUrls="true"
shortenUrls="true" useDisplayName="false" />
</providers>
</linkManager>
To truly do exactly what you ask is a quite involved process. If you point DotPeek to Sitecore.Pipelines.HttpRequest.ItemResolver, you can step through the ResolveUsingDisplayName() method. It essentially loops through child items, comparing the URL Part to the "__Display Name" field. You would have to cook up something similar.
Could someone please elaborate on how to implement simplemembership into an existing web application. All the blogs are very confusing and lack detail. There's one that I found that doesn't appear to work. I have an existing blog app that I've build and I'm looking for a painless way to use simplemembership..
Please help..
Thanks
If you are using MVC4, as you mentioned in tags:
1) Create new MVC4 Internet WebApplication
2) Copy from it:
a)AccountController from Controllers folder
b)AccountModels from Models folder
c)Account folder from View folder
4) Past it to your application
5)Change everythere namesoaces to your application
6)Modify web.config:
Add (you may copy it from new application):
<system.web>
<authentication mode="Forms">
<forms loginUrl="~/Account/Login" timeout="2880" />
</authentication>
<membership>
<providers>
<clear />
<add name="AspNetSqlMembershipProvider" type="System.Web.Security.SqlMembershipProvider" connectionStringName="gunselEntities" enablePasswordRetrieval="false" enablePasswordReset="true" requiresQuestionAndAnswer="false" requiresUniqueEmail="false" maxInvalidPasswordAttempts="5" minRequiredPasswordLength="3" minRequiredNonalphanumericCharacters="0" passwordAttemptWindow="10" applicationName="/" />
</providers>
</membership>
</system.web>
7) Add Aspnet membership tables to your database. Navigate to the wizard(C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework[framework version]\aspnet_regsql) and launch it. It will run special wizzard, which helps to add tables.
Urls containing language information in the url ("filePath") opened normally in Sitecore 7.
For example, opening url "mysite.com/fr-ca" used to render an item with language fr-ca. Now, sitecore is displaying "item not found" page.
I have implemented a custom url provider. Is this causing issue?
I have changed "languageEmbedding" in hope that it works, but to no avail.
How can I fix this issue? As far as I remember this should work without issues as this functionality comes out of the box with sitecore.
The first thing to check is that your site has been published in the required language?
Publishing aside, it's difficult to know what the issue is here without seeing the code of your custom LinkProvider. If you were to use the standard Sitecore LinkProvider your settings should be similar to this (the key attributes to note here are languageEmbedding="always" and languageLocation="filePath"):
<linkManager defaultProvider="sitecore">
<providers>
<clear />
<add name="sitecore"
type="Sitecore.Links.LinkProvider, Sitecore.Kernel"
addAspxExtension="false"
alwaysIncludeServerUrl="false"
encodeNames="true"
languageEmbedding="always"
languageLocation="filePath"
shortenUrls="true"
useDisplayName="false" />
</providers>
</linkManager>