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#1 2006-03-11 22:48:57

DaveR
Member
From: Dunedin, New Zealand
Registered: 2004-04-20
Posts: 13

The same URL-only title is used by 2 different articles

When I edit my articles and save them I get this error message.

Article posted (The same URL-only title is used by 2 different articles)

Can anyone enlighten me as to what it means and how serious it might be?
Searching the FAQ, the forums and Google turns up no answers…

Thanks,
Dave

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#2 2006-03-11 23:06:33

els
Moderator
From: The Netherlands
Registered: 2004-06-06
Posts: 7,458

Re: The same URL-only title is used by 2 different articles

When I edit my articles and save them I get this error message.

You don’t mean that happens with all your articles I suppose?

URL-only title (under Advanced options in the Write screen).

The message means exactly what it says ;) You must have used the same article title twice. In that case you can change the URL-only title to something like ‘your-article-title-2’.

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#3 2006-03-11 23:41:53

DaveR
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From: Dunedin, New Zealand
Registered: 2004-04-20
Posts: 13

Re: The same URL-only title is used by 2 different articles

Thanks for the pointer, DoggieZ. Now I understand.
-Dave

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#4 2006-03-29 16:41:33

els
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From: The Netherlands
Registered: 2004-06-06
Posts: 7,458

Re: The same URL-only title is used by 2 different articles

The url-only title is created the first time an article is saved. If you change the title later, the url-only title is not updated. You have to do this yourself, either by typing in the new url-only title, or by emptying the field so an new url-only title based on the current article title will be created.

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#5 2006-03-29 19:27:08

Sencer
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From: cgn, de
Registered: 2004-03-23
Posts: 1,803
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Re: The same URL-only title is used by 2 different articles

Changing the URL on live articles is generall a bad thing, because cool URIs don’t change. For those cases where you wish you to do it anyway, you can do so manually, as Els described.

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#6 2006-03-29 21:14:34

els
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From: The Netherlands
Registered: 2004-06-06
Posts: 7,458

Re: The same URL-only title is used by 2 different articles

Sencer wrote:

cool URIs don’t change

That’s a truth as a cow as we say in Dutch ;) but if you change the section of an article, the URL will change anyhow (if /section/ is in the URL).

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