Usage of the field "shortlink" ?

[jhice]

Hi,

Trying to get to the "shortlink" field working, and it seems not to be used anywhere in the source code. For example :

/pages/my-shortlink-url
or
/my-shortlink-url
return a 404 (no route found).

How can we use it ?
Thanks

[annejan]

I have the same issue.

Any help would be appreciated @bobdenotter

[bobdenotter]

This feature wasn't implemented I think. One of those things i figured would be handy to have, but I never got around to implementing it yet.

If somebody would like to help out on implementing it, that'd be great. :-)

[annejan]

Currently looking into how https://github.com/AnimalDesign/bolt-shorturl does it . .
They seem to work well together too . . adding the shorturl behind the seo in my contenttypes.yml

        seo:
            type: seo
            group: "SEO settings"
        shorturl:
            type: shorturl

Adds the shorturl box inside the SEO tab . .

[artggd]

I definitely need this feature, happy to work on it! Any guidance / expected behaviours would be of great help 🙂

[xiaohutai]

https://github.com/SahAssar/boltredirector is also an option. It uses YAML for the redirects, but the nice thing is that get a list of all overrides in one view, and you can have multiple shortlinks to a single record. It doesn't care whether it should even link to a record (e.g. you could redirect to a contentlisting).

Downside is that you don't have a dedicated UI for these rules, except for a YAML editor.

[Spomsoree]

I think this field should be removed then..