Hi Paul! Can you provide a little bit more information on what you are trying to accomplish? Maybe provide some sample URLs that are hoping to acheive...

Chris

Thanks for replying.  Sorry it took me so long to respond.  i was gathering the resources for this post and there are a bunch of them:) Watch out!

Currently we installed this blog template on episerver 9 

http://world.episerver.com/blogs/Jacob-Khan/Dates/2014/9/Blog-Template-for-EPiServer-CMS-75/

it wrks just fine. The urls out of the box are 

domain/startpage/year/month/blogtitle

They want domain/startpage/blogtitle

I found this 

http://joelabrahamsson.com/custom-routing-for-episerver-content/

and parts of it works and other parts do not work for me

I am able to modify the simple address according to the url name and buld the url the way i want and set the external url the way they want.  unfortunatly the uls do not go anywhere.  the only url that works is the 

domain/startpage/year/month/blogtitle

one.  i tried to add a new route 

 protected void Application_Start()
        {
            AreaRegistration.RegisterAllAreas();
            RegisterRoutes(RouteTable.Routes);
}

 protected new void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)
        {
            routes.MapRoute(
               "BlogItem", // Route name
               "{action}/{id}", // URL with parameters
               new { controller = "BlogItemController", action = "blog" } // Parameter defaults
           );
            routes.MapRoute(
              "BlogItem", // Route name
              "blog/{id}", // URL with parameters
              new { controller = "BlogItemController", action = "blog" } // Parameter defaults
          );
        }

but after seeting the url manually and saving the externalurl the routs are not being hit for some reason.

I looked into how the blog item is rendered and it is a partial.  

Here is the part that i have working 

 public class BlogPartialRouterBlogItems : IPartialRouter<BlogStartPage, BlogItemPage>
    {
        public static PageData CurrentPage
        {
            get
            {
                if (HttpContext.Current == null)
                    return null; //throw new NotSupportedException("Cannot get current page without HttpContext");

                var pageBase = HttpContext.Current.Handler as PageBase;
                if (pageBase == null)
                    return null; //throw new NotSupportedException("Cannot get current PageBase object");

                var currentPage = pageBase.CurrentPage;
                if (currentPage == null)
                    return null; //throw new NotSupportedException("Current page is not set.");

                return currentPage;
            }
        }

        public PartialRouteData GetPartialVirtualPath(BlogItemPage BlogPage, string language, RouteValueDictionary routeValues, RequestContext requestContext)
        {
            var contentLink = ContentRoute.GetValue("node", requestContext, routeValues) as ContentReference;
         
            if (PageEditing.PageIsInEditMode)
            {
                return null;
            }

            string UrlToBeDisplayed = GetBlogPrefix(BlogPage.URLSegment);
            PageData currentPage = CurrentPage;
            //if (currentPage != null && !String.IsNullOrEmpty(currentPage.ExternalURL))
            //    UrlToBeDisplayed = currentPage.ExternalURL;


            var routData = new PartialRouteData
            {

                BasePathRoot = ContentReference.StartPage,
                PartialVirtualPath = UrlToBeDisplayed
                 //BasePathRoot = _blogStart,
                 //PartialVirtualPath = String.Format("{0}/{1}/", BlogPage.Name, BlogPage.Name)
             };
           
            return routData;
        }

/* more code down here that is not relevant */
}

Also we talked to one of the episerver reps and he sent these links but most of them are out dated ( mostly for epi 7 ) and some of the major parts are not compatable.  at least i haven't found a way to get them to work.

Any sugestions would be greatly appreciated!

Thank you!