Article ID's using Save as copy Topic is solved

[crissoft]

I made an article as a template and used Save as copy to make my articles based on it. These articles on the front end have the ID's in the url the same as the template one, but in the back end Article manager they each have their own unique ID's. Could this cause any issues ? The front end looks good, the links in the category lists point to the correct articles. I found a resource that says that I should use Save as copy with the Unpublished option and then Save and close with Published.

[imanickam]

Whenever "Save as Copy" is used, multiple things happen.

- An article is created. Be known that each article has a unique numeric ID. This is reflected in the column ID in the screen "Articles". This ID is unique across all categories irrespective of the category to which the article belongs.

- Also, the Alias, an unique alphanumeric identifier based on the title of the article unless it is manually entered, is created. This is reflected in the column Title in the screen "Articles". Alias of each article is displayed below the title of that article. For example, it would be displayed as "Alias: my-template-2". This alphanumeric identifier (i.e. Alias) is unique within a category.

Note: For simplification, other tables affected such as workflow are not listed


On the front-end as well as back-end:

- If the title is not changed from the original/template article title then a numeric number within parenthesis is added to the title. For example, if the Title in the template article is "My Template" then the article that is created using "Save as Copy" would be "My Template (2)". Subsequent articles created would be "My Template (3)", "My Template (4)", and so forth. The corresponding alias create would be "my-template-2", "my-template-3", "my-template-4", and so forth.

- If the tile is changed from the original/template article title then the alias created would be based on the changed title.


One thing to bear in mind is that you would not notice alias while creating article in the front-end. One would notice the alias in the back end.

Be known that the urls are created based on the alias of the article or the alias of the menu item as the case may be.

Hope this clarifies.

[crissoft]

I thought that Itemid meant the ID of the article.
So if I have article-1?catid=13&Itemid=101, 101 is the ID of the menu item.
Thank you for the answer.