URLs of dynamic content items

Dynamic content types support additional URLs for their items. When you change the title or the URL of an item, this is not going to break any existing links that navigate to it. When you open an item on the frontend, the URL that you set last is displayed.

This is also valid for content types that have hierarchical structure. The URL for an item is created by combining all of the parent item’s URLs. For example ~/page/item-1/item-2/item-3/item-4, where item-1 is parent of item-2, etc. For these scenarios keep in mind the following cases:

  • If you change the URL of an item that is in the lowest level of the hierarchy, its previous URL continues to work.
    For example, if you have an item with URL ~/item-1/item-2 and change the URL of item-2 to item-2-edit . When you open item-2 on the frontend, its URL is ~/item-1/item-2-edit, but ~/item-1/item-2 is still active.
  • If you change the URL of an item that has child items, the URLs of the child items are updated.
    For example, if you have an item with URL ~/item-1/item-2 and changeitem-1 to item-1-edit. When you open item-2 on the frontend, its URL is ~/item-1-edit/item-2, but ~/item-1/item-2 is still active.
  • If you break the hierarchical structure of dynamic content types, prevents the hierarchical URLs.
    For example, if you have an item with URL ~/item-1/item-2 and detach the two content types so that both are on a one level of hierarchy. When you open item-2 on the frontend, its URL is ~/item-2, but ~/item-1/item-2 is still active.
  • If you have hierarchical content types and a parent item has two or more URLs, when you a create child item, its URL is generated using the current URL of the parent.
    For example, if you have a parent item with URL ~/item-1 and change it to item-1-edit. When you create item-2 that is child of item-1, its URL is ~/item-1-edit/item-2. The URL ~/item-1/item-2 returns error 404 – page not found.

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