EPiSevrer CMS 8 friendly URL query

Tahir Naveed

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Hi guys,

In EPiServer 8, as per this document (see section "PageData.LinkURL and classic links"), permanent links (~/link/bbaadfc8-44d8-42a6-b559-b20f08714084.aspx are being returned from APIs, such as PageData.LinkURL, and the URL is always determined via routing to the Friendly URL at rendering time.

Now I have html something like this

The image (EPiServer property) setup as a background for the li never gets converted to friendly.

Is there anyway I can override this so it also gets converted into friendly like the img tag inside the li?

Many thanks

#123696

Jul 15, 2015 15:53

K Khan

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if its a mvc application
@Url.ContentUrl(Model.Url)
should return you freindly urls

Regards
/K

#123699

Jul 15, 2015 16:59

Tahir Naveed

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It is a webform application. The quick and dirty way will be to write an extension method something like

public static string GetFriendlyUrl(this Url internalUrl)
{
string url = string.Empty;
if (internalUrl == null || string.IsNullOrEmpty(internalUrl.ToString())) return url;

var urlHelper = ServiceLocator.Current.GetInstance<UrlHelper>();
var friendlyUrl = urlHelper.ContentUrl(internalUrl.ToString());
return friendlyUrl;
}

and instead of writing

<li style="background: url(<%= this.CurrentBlock.BackgroundImage %>) no-repeat 0 0;" >

Write

<li style="background: url(<%= this.CurrentBlock.BackgroundImage.GetFriendlyUrl() %>) no-repeat 0 0;" >

But I don't want to do that. I want to override the rendering mechanism so that I don't have to do this at all the places and can handle it at a single centeralized place

#123700

Edited, Jul 15, 2015 17:12

K Khan

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You can add a readonly property in your block to render url as you want and use that property instead.

Regards
/K

#123706

Jul 16, 2015 11:31