How to generate internal link for ContentReference?

Ian

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If I have a valid ContentReference instance pointing to a block, how can I go about getting the internal URL for that block? Example: ~/link/dd34112844b94401a0c66ed8106ae4cb.aspx

#277080

Mar 24, 2022 15:42

Ian

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I haven't found a method yet that will do it, but this will effectively output the same format:

 var internalUrl = $"~/link/{block.ContentGuid.ToString().Replace("-", "")}.aspx";

#277082

Mar 24, 2022 16:20

Andrew Markham

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Hi Ian,

I would be interested in understanding what you are trying to do, why do you want to create a url for a block, as they are not routable?

Andy

#277208

Mar 25, 2022 20:20

Tomas Hensrud Gulla

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Have a look at my blogpost for varius ways of obtaining the URL.
https://www.gulla.net/no/blog/content-url-with-or-without-shortcut/

My favorite:

SELECT LinkURL
FROM tblContentLanguage
WHERE fkContentID = 1337

#277245

Edited, Mar 26, 2022 18:24

Quan Mai

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The official way is to use IPermanentLinkMapper to get the PermanentLinkMap from ContentReference (_permanentLinkMapper.Find(contentLink). PermanentLinkMap contains PermanentLinkUrl which should be what you are looking for :)

#277341

Mar 28, 2022 15:21

Ian

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@Andrew - The short of it is that I'm allowing editors to link to certain block types from within the Create Link dialog window, which will result in a dynamic modal popup window on the front-end. In doing so, I need to override the UrlResolver so that the correct URLs are generated on both the front-end as well as the Epi admin.

#277342

Mar 28, 2022 17:20