[TYPO3-english] Can you use the alias of the page you are shortcutting to?

[Jigal van Hemert]

Andrew Pailthorpe wrote:
> Hi,
> I only use shortcuts for navigation/menu purposes as I don't want to have
> any duplicate pages on my site. Is there a way that you can have the
> shortcuts use the alias of the page it is shortcuting to. So you can have a
> shortcut to a page with the alias monkey.html and in menus instead of using
> its on alias 241.html it will use monkey.html. Thanks for you help

So far, I've only seen illogical behaviour with shortcut pages.
- When you  don't use a URL rewriter the URL shows the id of the 
shortcut page.
- In menu's ACT checks the rootline of the page the shortcut is pointing 
to instead of the shortcut page itself (which is shown in the URL). A 
shortcut page in the menu will not trigger ACT if you access one of the 
subpages of the shortcut target. This may be logical from the T3 point 
of view, but it makes the combination ACT + shortcut pretty useless.
- RealURL uses information of the page the shortcut is pointing to (at 
least that is what the manual says).


-- 
Jigal van Hemert.