SOLVED : How to stop a '-' getting put into page names

[Eskymo]

Hi there

I have the term 'Case Studies' in my navigation and it's causing me grief. I created my page template for the Case Study page and associated styleheets, attached these and then went to create the actual page. No matter what I do, the page becomes 'case-studies' and therefore naffs up my navigation and my link won't work. How do I get rid of the '-' that is somehow generated. Maybe if someone could explain to me the what the Title and Menu Text input boxes refer to that might help my understanding...but I have tried both of the following with no success:

When creating the page I have used the following:

Title : Case Studies
Menu Text : Case Studies

I get 'case-studies' as the page ID in my nav and also the page link (http://www.techsinthecity.co.uk/devsite/index.php?page=case-studies) and so the link won't work and you can only access the page if you type inthe URL. So I tried

Title : casestudies
Menu Text : casestudies

And the same problem occurs.

My menu code is as follows in case that has something to do with it...

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{if $count > 0}
<ul id="primarynav">
{foreach from=$nodelist item=node}
{if $node->depth > $node->prevdepth}
{repeat string="<ul>" times=$node->depth-$node->prevdepth}
{elseif $node->depth < $node->prevdepth}
{repeat string="</li></ul>" times=$node->prevdepth-$node->depth}
</li>
{elseif $node->index > 0}</li>
{/if}

{if $node->current == true}
<li id="{$node->alias}"><a href="{$node->url}" class="active" title="{$node->menutext}"> <span>{$node->menutext}</span> </a>

{else}
<li id="{$node->alias}"><a href="{$node->url}" title="{$node->menutext}"> <span>{$node->menutext}</span></a>

{/if}

{/foreach}

{repeat string="</li></ul>" times=$node->depth-1}</li>
</ul>
{/if}

Am I missing something really obvious?

Please help.

thanks

E

[RonnyK]

E,

if a new page is created, the alias will be set automatically, making some changes to the names, all is lower-case and spaces are replaced by "-".

After editing the name/menuname for a page, the pagealias isnt changed automatically, that has to be done by hand on the options-tab of a page. So only new pages get an alias, all changed pages keep the existing alias which can be edited offcourse. You could make the content-page and menu called "Case Studies" and then manually give it an alias called "casestudies".

Ronny

[Eskymo]

You're a genius! Thanks!

I didn't even know the options tab existed until you pointed it out - never noticed that! Will add that to my 'list of things to remember' for the next time I create a site with CMSMS.

Right onto the next learning curve - subnavs...

thanks

E