Error with furl changes

[Optic14]

Bumping this.

I have 2 apps where I have changed furl.json, which I'm fine with editing and rebuilding cache via the support tool.

But it starts to get tiring having to do this manually again whenever I have to update the apps.

[Adriano Faria]

I wouldn’t expect this before IPS5.

[LukasGr.]

Is this still not resolved?! I hate some of my FURLs being ugly due to this..

@Charles

@Matt

Edited December 27, 2018 by LukasGr.
@user didnt work..

[Li3D]

On 10/13/2017 at 10:21 PM, forumdev99 said:

I am able to change a couple of them, actually, so let's focus on one in particular that won't change:

I need this URL /forums/topic/{#id}-{?}

..to look like this: /topic/{#id}-{?}

But when I change it and save, it reverts back to: /forums/topic/{#id}-{?}

In /applications/forums/data/furl.json it looks like this:

    "forums_topic": {
            "friendly": "topic/{#id}-{?}",
            "real": "app=forums&module=forums&controller=topic",
            "verify": "\\IPS\\forums\\Topic"
        },

..are you able to change this specific URL in your board?

BTW I am running IPSv4.2.5

Same problem here...

If I set "topLevel": "", it works but discover isn't the home page anymore, even with :

        "forums": {
            "friendly": "categories",
            "real": "app=forums&module=forums&controller=index"
        },

 

[Maxxius]

@AlexWright thank you so much for this post! It helped me make the IDENTICAL fURLs I had customized back in the day on 3.4.x to be the same in 4.4!

BTW my default app will be Pages.

What you did not mention that you have to translate is

"topLevel": "forums",

to your language. Thus I was able to translate this toplevel fURL and translated the rest in ACP and in the end I got results such as:

http://website.com/forum/f1/forum-category-name/
http://website.com/forum/t46405/topic-name/

Basically you have to do this for every app you want to translate, go to its folder, find furl.json file and edit it.

Today IPS support told me this can't be done, but there it is. 🙂

Edited October 18, 2019 by Maxxius

[Rhett]

2 hours ago, Maxxius said:

@AlexWright thank you so much for this post! It helped me make the IDENTICAL fURLs I had customized back in the day on 3.4.x to be the same in 4.4!

BTW my default app will be Pages.

What you did not mention that you have to translate is

"topLevel": "forums",

to your language. Thus I was able to translate this toplevel fURL and translated the rest in ACP and in the end I got results such as:

http://website.com/forum/f1/forum-category-name/
http://website.com/forum/t46405/topic-name/

Basically you have to do this for every app you want to translate, go to its folder, find furl.json file and edit it.

Today IPS support told me this can't be done, but there it is. 🙂

We do not support nor should you ever edit a core file.  So it cannot be done following the rules in stock form as noted in your ticket.  

 

 

[AlexWright]

3 hours ago, Maxxius said:

@AlexWright thank you so much for this post! It helped me make the IDENTICAL fURLs I had customized back in the day on 3.4.x to be the same in 4.4!

BTW my default app will be Pages.

What you did not mention that you have to translate is

"topLevel": "forums",

to your language. Thus I was able to translate this toplevel fURL and translated the rest in ACP and in the end I got results such as:

http://website.com/forum/f1/forum-category-name/
http://website.com/forum/t46405/topic-name/

Basically you have to do this for every app you want to translate, go to its folder, find furl.json file and edit it.

Today IPS support told me this can't be done, but there it is. 🙂

Yeah, sadly this work around only works on self-hosted licenses, as @Rhett mentioned. Until there's a fix for this ^^;

[xtech]

This is a prevalent issue since 4.0 was launched. IPS needs to fix this.

[Adriano Faria]

I wouldn’t expect that before IPS5 as they already said it would require a rewrite of the FURL stuff. But Lindy said (here in this topic or elsewhere, couldn’t find it) that wasn’t the goal to work like that so it may be removed at some point. 

[DreamOn]

Up...

Same problem here.

Weird that no member of the IPS team intervenes here.

[Maxxius]

On 9/10/2020 at 12:30 PM, Adriano Faria said:

I wouldn’t expect that before IPS5 as they already said it would require a rewrite of the FURL stuff. But Lindy said (here in this topic or elsewhere, couldn’t find it) that wasn’t the goal to work like that so it may be removed at some point. 

Removed? What removed exactly? Ability to change furls thru json file? What would be one BAD decision if they don't make a fully cuztomizable furl customizing thru ACP. And like how it is now - its not fully customizable. Nice but not full and we need full.

[Umaar]

Anything on this? 👀

[Amoxil44]

Still not fixed? Comon guys 

[Marc Stridgen]

18 hours ago, Amoxil44 said:

Still not fixed? Comon guys 

This is not something that is 'fixed' there, as its actually not a bug as such. It's the way in which the system is designed. So its unfortunately not something that can be changed without quite a large change to the FURL system. As such, its very very unlikely to be something that is changed any time soon. This would be being changed for quite a small number of our customers, however the changes we would need to make to implement it would impact every customer.