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Features / Usability


Re: Forward slash (ie. "/") within a page name?

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You may turn off the "Prevent special characters in page names" option and use the slash in a page name. But, if you do, then you can not enable the "Search engine friendly URL" feature.
Page names with slashes will not work as links when "Search engine friendly URL" is enabled.

You can read about the "Search engine friendly URL" feature here: http://doc.tiki.org/Search+Engine+Friendly+URL

You can find where to turn off the "Prevent special characters in page names" setting here: http://doc.tiki.org/Wiki+General+Preferences

An option you might consider is using the character string "⁄" in place of the slash. It will work with the "Search engine friendly URL" feature, and it will be accepted in a page name, even if "Prevent special characters in page names" is turned on.

To create a page named "40/1964 Sb.", you would enter it as
((40⁄1964 Sb.))
and it would look like
40⁄1964 Sb.
as a page name and wiki page link.

In some character sets the ⁄ does not look exactly like a /, so that may be a problem.

Another problem with using "⁄" would be searches. If your user searches on a page name with a slash, it will not find the pages using "⁄" in them.

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