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You While you can add any page to your navigation menu using this option, however your your site's menu should be for navigating within your site. Use CTA and Link paragraphs to create links to external resources and documents.
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Use the admin menu to navigate to “Configuration ￫ Search and Metadata ￫ URL Redirects”
Select "Add redirect"
Complete the form:
Path: this is the custom redirect URL. You’ll note your site URL is already added, you just need to enter the text that follows your site’s URL.
Example: the Policy Library has a redirect for the Prohibited Discrimination & Harassment Policy (pdx.edu/policies/pdhp). They
entered pdhp into the Path text box.
To: this is the true destination URL.
Redirect status: Leave this as the default.
Do note that redirects sometimes take a few minutes to come into effect; wait a little bit before testing the redirect.
Managing URLs
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URLs
What is a URL alias?
The URLs
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for each of your pages default to the page title. However, you can customize
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Updating/Customizing your URL aliases
From the Edit tab of a page
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the URLs for landing pages and a few other page types. If a page you’re editing has that option, you’ll see a "URL Alias" option on the right side of the page.
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Provided the page you’re editing has that option, follow these instructions to customize the URL:
Expand the URL Alias menu
Deselect “Generate automatic URL alias” - this is the option that defaults the URL to the page title.
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Enter the new end to your page’s URL
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; this is just the text that appears after your site’s URL starting with a forward slash.
Example:
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you
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From the URL alias admin menu
There is also an admin area where you can edit the URL aliases for any pages on your site. Navigate to this area by going to: “Configuration ￫ Search and metadata ￫ URL aliases” in the admin menu.
You can use the Filter Aliases section to find aliases with specific text in them.
To edit an alias, click "Edit" to the right of the alias.
Existing system path is the actual page the alias is associated with. You'll notice it shows as /node/### - that's the true URL for the page.
If you want to make this alias associated with a different page, you can find the node in the address bar when editing a page. When you edit the page, the true URL (with the node number) displays.
Path alias is the alias you want. use the format /end-of-URL - with that section being what displays after your site name in the URL.
Important notes
You cannot use top-level URLs as an alias
Our URLs are structured as: http://pdx.edu/ top-level/page-name. You cannot have the same end URL as a top-level page/site URL (the text directly after the http://pdx.edu/ ).
For example, http://pdx.edu/research exists. So you cannot have a page with an end URL of "research" (i.e. pdx.edu/health-counseling/research). Instead, you have to have a unique end URL, such as pdx.edu/health-counselg/our-research.
You cannot make aliases for other sites
The URL aliases you make will always associate with your site. You cannot make an alias that would connect the page to a different site.
Fixing it when the alias you want to use is in use on a different page
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want your page titled About Us (defaulting to /about-us) to just end in “about”. You would enter /about for the URL alias.
Please note: your URL Alias cannot end with the same text as a site URL or top-level page. For example, pdx.edu/research (site) exists, as does pdx.edu/transfer-student (top-level URL). So you cannot create a custom URL that ends in /research or /transfer-student.