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Menu and Endpoints

Learning Objectives

We will also learn about Menu management.

System requirement

• Ubuntu Linux Operating System
• Drupal 8 and
• Firefox Web browser

You can use any web browser as per your choice.

• Endpoints are URL paths which display a particular content.
• By default in Drupal, the endpoint of a node is node/[node:id].
• Sending this to a server will display the contents of the node.
• A number in the ID is not human readable.

• That is, we cannot easily associate a particular content with say, node/278162
• A human readable endpoint is available by creating an alias.
• Alias is an alternate URL path for the same content.
• We can use either the original or any one of several aliases, for displaying the same content.

• For example node/278162 and content/drupal-camp-mumbai-2015
• Both return the same content.
• The second one is easy to remember.

Here, you will notice that Pathauto requires Token and CTools.

Once you have installed these these modules, turn them on.

Down here on the left hand side, under the SEARCH AND METADATA section, you will see URL aliases.

Click on the Patterns tab.

Click on the Add Pathauto pattern button.

Here we can create separate patterns for Forum, Content, Taxonomy term and User.

In the Path pattern field, we have to provide the pattern template.

They are dynamically generated for each entity.

When you see Browse available tokens in any input form, you can insert pre-defined tokens.

Type content/.

Then click on the Browse available tokens link.

The token for the title of the page is under the Nodes section.

This will insert [node:title]at the cursor location in the form box.

Then select the token again.

Let us select all the types so that this pattern is default for all of them.

Example: we can create usergroup/[node:title]and apply it only for User Group.

Here, we can check the new pattern we just created.

But it will not create the URL aliases for existing contents.

Select Content type and click on the Update button.

It can take a while depending on the number of existing contents.

We can see that the URL aliases for our content.

The newly generated URL alias is there in the first Alias column.

You have to do this each time you create a new Content type.

• Use lower case words
• Do not give space between words
• Separate words by hyphen and not underscore
• Use meaningful, human readable words in the URL for search engine optimisation (SEO)
• Use date tokens for contents classified by time

Here we can see default Separator, length etc.

This is to keep the endpoint compact and meaningful.

Pathauto and Token modules allow us to

• set up URL patterns
• delete aliases and
• bulk generate aliases

at any time.

We have six menus, to be exact.

So click on Edit menu.

Once done, click Save.

Let’s click and drag Events to the top and then drag Upcoming Events to the right.

This will create a sub menu.

Click Save and take a look at our front page.

Bartick theme is one of them.

Drag Upcoming Event back over here and click Save.

All the nodes that start with that letter, will show up.

But we want /forum here, which is a link to the Forum.

Let’s just double check if that works and indeed it does.

With this in our menu system, it will be easier to create Menu item for a View or a Content Type.

Summary

In this tutorial we learnt about

• Setting up URL Patterns
• Menu management

Acknowledgement

• adapted from Acquia and OSTraining
• and revised by Spoken Tutorial Project, IIT Bombay.

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Acknowledgement

• NMEICT, Ministry of Human Resource Development and
• NVLI, Ministry of Culture

Government of India.

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