Thanks Vincent for your thorough reply..
You guessed it right. We intend to have clean and short urls for SEO
reasons.
Current scheme creates two problems:
1) The Page name is fetched automatically from the Title. Often the titles
have spaces which translate as *percent characters *in url which makes it
somewhat unclean :)
2) Secondly, to have the shorter url, we use only the short forms of
complete title.
Ex. For title 'Pune University' we use name PU.
Otherwise in this hierarchy of pages, the url would be much longer.
Ex. We have page 'Electronics and Telecommunications' branch under page
'Pune University'. We should not have such a long url. Instead here we need
PU/ENTC or Pune-University/ENTC
To avoid all this, what we currently do:
1) On create page dialog, use PU as title.. This will create url as PU.
If full name is used here as title, we need to use - instead of spaces to
avoid percent characters in url.
2) While in edit mode, change the title back to Pune University. Remove any
- characters to make title clean.
This is where confusion creeps in.
If these two terms create confusion, why I need to show them both:
I guess the *confusion is due to term Name*. It doesn't reflect actual usage
of the term. URL or weblink or link or web address would be more apt terms
to use to instead of Name.
My users can differentiate between Title and URL. But the whole procedure we
follow is certainly not understandable by all. And we definitely need to
follow this whole long procedure, just to have short and clean urls.
So, by showing both fields at the first place itself, I would like to
shorten the procedure and url length.
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