Replacing an old section with a new section

Squiz Matrix Support
1

Hi All,

I just wanted to make sure the below sounds correct before I proceed…

We have a section with a standard page at the top level called “Creative Arts” that has many pages below it.

We have a new version of this section called “Creative Arts 2” which has all new versions of the pages below.

What’s the best/quickest way of having the new section take over the old sections web path?

So the two webpaths currently:

/creative-arts
/creative-arts2

I’m thinking of doing:

  1. Adding a 3 to the web path of the first one so it becomes creative-arts3 and making sure remap automatically is NOT ticked. This should free up the original web path whilst making it not redirect to creative-arts3.
  2. Removing the 2 from the second one so it will become /creative-arts and make sure auto remap IS ticked. This will take over the old web path and remap all the /creative-arts2/ pages to /creative-arts/

This should work, right?

Thanks,
Tim

2

Actually this would be a great process to check -

Yep we have found unticking don’t remap doesn’t always work ( for children)

We would change the path of the original to path-old then the new asset we would remove the 2 from the new asset

Then we would look for -old in the remap manager and remove.

We would check the linking screen for the old asset as well to make sure IDs are updated to the new ones.

Could be convuluded.

1 Like
3

As fuzzi mentioned, unticking Add Remaps on the Web Paths screen only affects the current asset atm, we’re fixing this in the next release as part of https://squizmap.squiz.net/matrix/11538.

Instead, you probably want to turn off global remaps in the remap manager temporarily and then turn it back on after the move.

But even if the remaps get created, you can always remove them in the remap manager afterwards, as I don’t think you actually need to have remaps for /creative-arts2/ pages to /creative-arts/ do you? No public user would have ever seen the /creative-arts2/ URLs in the wild would they?

1 Like
4

Thanks for the replies both! Like you said Bart no one will have been on the creative-arts2 url’s apart from us in the web team so no need to remap.

I will turn off in the remap manager and turn back on once we have sorted it all!

Thanks

Tim