Default value for url with multiple wildcards

Hi Justin

You simple need to make wildcard URL for both the case's

if subcategory available your wild card URL,

/faq/{category}/{subcategory}

else

/faq/{category}

Thanks

Happy to help you

Hi Prashant, thank you for your response.

Unfortunately this doesn't work just yet, if i add the alias without the subcategory like you mentioned, it throws a 404 error when visiting the detailpage through /faq/Category1/SubcategoryA. The /faq/Category1 now seems to work, but still does not render with a default, even when i use these aliases:

/faq/{category}/{subcategory;SubcategoryA}

/faq/{category}

What am i doing wrong / missing?

Hi Justin,

Can you please share the wildcard URLs snapshot.So I can check what's missing.

But as you said you are using this page alaises

faq/{category}/{subcategory;SubcategoryA}

It seems your Url pattern is not correct.Please check documentation for url patterns. It should be like this /faq/{category}/{subcategory}

@Prashant, the url pattern i previously posted, included the default value which is mentioned at: https://docs.kentico.com/k10/configuring-kentico/configuring-page-urls/wildcard-urls

Here is a screenshot of my current situation:

@Brenden, you might be right that it looks a little complicated. But essentially there is only a single FAQ/Overview page and a Detail page, the purpose of the overview is to guide the user to a subcategory (in the user interface, a user is able two switch categories via javascript and select a subcategory). When a user selects a subcategory, he reaches the detail page which shows the questions from the selected subcategory, and in a sidemenu he/she is able to switch categories/subcategories. So there is no real subcategory page, as this should be the Detail page with a default 'subcategory' fallback, i hope you guys understand.

The way i interpreted the documentation (Wildcard URLs documentation section: Default wildcard values) you should be able to set defaults/fallbacks for when there is no wildcard value, so when a user visits /faq/Category1/SubcategoryA and switches to /faq/Category2/, i want it to load /faq/Category2/{first default subcategory}. But i'm unable to get default value working...

Hey Justin,

For first default subcategory You need to do some other settings.

Step 1: Go to your subcategory parent page in document tree then select navigation from properties tab.

Step 2: Then you need to set the option called redirect to first child.

Conclusion : After apply those setting whenever user go to specific subcategory parent then by default it redirect to first value.

Do same setting for other subcategory.

Thanks

I agree with Brenden: drop your details page and implement appropriate template for category and subcategory pages, so they are details page for itself.

Thanks a lot guys, i've ditched the setup with the detail page and i now have it working with the macros. Makes much more sense this way. Here is a screenshot:

The only thing i'm still missing is the default, for when a category is visited without a subcategory... i tried to set the "Redirect to first child (/FAQ/Category1/SubcategoryA.aspx)" on the Category page, but i still get an 404 when i try to visit /Faq/Category1. Do i need to do anything else for this in order for it to work?

Hello Kentico dev's, can someone please help me with the default mentioned in my previous post?

I've created page-templates for the FAQ-level and Subcategory-level. On the FAQ-level a user can select a category and then a subcategory via a javascript interface. When a user selects a subcategory he/she will be linked to the Subcategory-pagetemplate where he/she can see all the questions from this subcategory.

Because the category-level does not have a real page, i want to redirect users directly to the subcategory-pagetemplate. And i've tried setting up a redir in the Navigation tab. But it does not seem to work, because i can still visit /FAQ/Category1 and it shows a broken version of the template it inherits from the FAQ level, instead of redirecting me to a subcategory.

How do i make this redirect work?

Please help!

Best regards, Justin