[Question] Custom Alias with hidden parameters v7 or v8

Victor Hugo Garcia asked on April 14, 2014 13:53

Hello friends,

I'm dealing with an issue in how to make something to work correctly in Kentico, here is what I have:

I'm consuming a Web Service that retrieves external products and each product, so we would like to generate a template where we can access those products using an alias like this: /products/name_of_product

Since the web service is external, we can only filter by Product ID, so I was wondering what is the best approach you suggest to display those products from external service and make them using pretty URLs like the one mentioned above.

Note: we are not storing anything in Kentico.

I was thinking if possible to create 1 content and 1 alias assigned to it like this: /products/{name} and then setup somehow a hidden parameter where I can refer and retrieve the product ID in the template, to display the details of the product.

Any help or suggestion is always welcome.

Thanks

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John Flores answered on April 14, 2014 13:59

I am also having the same problem. any suggestions are welcome

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Brenden Kehren answered on April 15, 2014 06:44

The key would be to have that mapping of ID and unique URL key already setup on your external service. For instance: the-fancy-name-of-your-product = productID 876109234

You could have 2 parameters in your URL for instance /products/the-fancy-name-of-your-product/876109234. This will allow you to get some SEO as well as still get the ID as needed

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Victor Hugo Garcia answered on April 15, 2014 11:17

Well, then seems there is no other way.. I'll see if I can match that by using the Alias as unique ID.

Thank you!

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Brenden Kehren answered on April 15, 2014 16:39

Personally I like the second option better as it gives you both items although not the most clean URL. I think both will work, the first option will involve more work though.

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