Our client has many content pages directly below home. The content gets difficult to manage. They would like the ability to create a folder or somehow group the content together to keep the content tree clean. I found Virtual Nodes for Umbraco 8. However, we run on Umbraco 10. The marketplace doesn't seem to have anything either when I search for "folder" or "virtual".
So, is there anything out there that I can use or a code snippet I can implement? It is essential that the pages keep the same URL as it already has.
#Any possibilities to "folder" or "group" content without affecting the URL?
vale urchin
modern ridge
That's what List View was built for 🙂
leaden basin
We've used something like that, but it has some implications though.
The first part is making a folder and hide that url in it's subpages (CustomUrlProvider)
The second part is making a contentsavingnotification that checks the url before saving. As you can't have
/someHiddenFolder/contact
/someOtherHiddenFolder/contact
As they would have the same URL in the end
And don't forget to calculate in for language variants/url's 🙂
This however was build in V8, however the same approach could be used in V10+ I assume
vale urchin
I would've liked to just use the list view, but all this content is directly below the home node. I do not wish to turn the home node into a list view as it also contains many other things that should not go into a list view
I guess the CustomUrlProvider is the right approach, although it seems quite complicated to implement
silver quest
If the main issue is the urls you could also consider not grouping them under home and then setting the umbracourlname on save or something: https://docs.umbraco.com/umbraco-cms/reference/routing/routing-properties#umbracourlname
Haven't had this specific usecase but may be worth a test