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TOPIC: articles with same title - what happens?

articles with same title - what happens? 14 years, 4 months ago #14296

I searched "same title" but I didn't find the answer...

The thing is... I'm wondering what happens if I write article 1 called for example: "test" (leaving the 'alias' blank) and then write another one with the same name and I ALSO leave the 'alias' blank.

Just want to make sure I can write articles being sure that nothing happens in case that I assign the exact same aliases to different articles. Like writing one and giving it the "test-article" alias and then writing another article with the same "test-article" alias

Thx in advance!
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Re:articles with same title - what happens? 14 years, 4 months ago #14313

  • dajo
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Hello,

The two articles will have the same SEF URL, so there will be a problem, because only one of them will be accessible.
You can either enable the "Number duplicate URLs" option (so the first article will be /test-article and the second one /test-article-2) or you can use Google News numbering to distinguish them (either by date or by their ID). You can find both options in Content extension parameters (Manage Extensions -> Content).

Best regards,
ARTIO Support Team
ARTIO Support Team
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Re:articles with same title - what happens? 14 years, 4 months ago #14404

Yes, indeed... It does get the same SEF URL by default, as I just tried it minutes after posting this question. Now... Your answer is really helpful because I REALLY don't want to have to concern over the SEF URL.

Don't have trouble with numbers so that's a no issue. Now I'm interested in knowing the maximum amount of characters allowed for a SEF URL... and I'm pretty close to finding it out! Any help would be appreciated.
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Re:articles with same title - what happens? 14 years, 4 months ago #14431

  • dajo
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The limit of SEF URL length is 255 characters, but it's usually a few less, because JoomSEF counts with some characters for language code and numbers.

Best regards,
ARTIO Support Team
ARTIO Support Team
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