News module links to detail pages - revisited

[cjcollen]

Hi. Bailiwick posted about a problem with the URL of a News detail item having "/d,news-detail" at the end of the URL.

Here is link to that post made on 27 Sep 2019:
viewtopic.php?f=8&t=81636&p=344063&hili ... rl#p344063

The post is over 6 months and so no further comment can be made, hence this new post from me as I too am having this problem.

My CMSMS version is 2.2.13.

I added a brand new News item (not imported from an old version) and viewed the post with different settings in config and the News settings.
Here are my test outputs which I carried on my local wampserver:
Test 1:
config / url_rewriting is not set
News settings: no default page set for detail view
Resultant url:
localhost/blah-blah/index.php?mact=News,cntnt01,detail,0&cntnt01articleid=27&cntnt01detailtemplate=news-detail&cntnt01returnid=34

Test 2:
config / url_rewriting is set to mod_rewrite
News settings: no default page set for detail view
Resultant url:
localhost/blah-blah/news/27/34/This-is-a-new-article/d,news-detail

Now the d,news-detail bit appears at end of this url.

Test3:
config / url_rewriting is set to mod_rewrite
News settings: defailt page is set for detail view
Resultant url:
localhost/blah-blah/news/27/117/This-is-a-new-article/d,news-detail

The d,news-detail is still present.

The only way I can get rid of this is to set the News item with an explicit value in its URL (slug) field.

Does anyone know why this extra bit is put out?

[cjcollen]

I have found the answer to my own question!

In Design Manager, if you have set a default template for the News detail, then you don't need to include the detail template parameter in the News tag.

I was including the detail template parameter, even though I had set the default and this is why the d,news-detail bit was appearing in my News url.

So this is what my News tag was:
{News summarytemplate="news-summary-main" detailtemplate="news-detail" category="web design" pagelimit="2"}

So I removed template parameters to give this tag:
{News category="web design" pagelimit="2"}

And the resultant URL is:
localhost/blah-blah/news/27/117/This-is-a-new-article

Phew - mystery solved