Problems with URL Alias and translations

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Website: cern.ch/test-belgium

I have started to translate my “Basic Page” contents from English into French (and I will have to do Dutch afterwards).

The original English pages have an URL alias (e.g. /research, /governance, /internships etc)

This alias will stay the same for all translation (anyway, I don’t have a choice, it seems that URL Alias does not support translation) and URL Alias field is also labelled “URL ALIAS (ALL LANGUAGES)”.

So I expect that the French page will have the same URL’s but prefixed with “/fr” i.e. /fr/research, /fr/governance, /fr/internships etc

The problem is that once I have created the translation and saved it, the translated node URL is still in the form /fr/nodeXX, not using the URL Alias.

I have found a workaround but which is a bit time consuming: I go to Extend > PathAuto > Configure > List and can find my 2 pages URL alias, but BOTH are linked to English language.
If I change one to be associated to French language, then my page appears in both languages with the URL Alias. But this means I need to do this “cleanup” for every single page.

Is there any automatic way to fix this?

Thanks.

François

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Hi Francois,

You need to setup the URL patterns in order for this to work.

You can do this here https://test-belgium.web.cern.ch/admin/config/search/path/patterns

Once you have set up this (e.g. using tokens [node:title] for the path, the alias will be saved according to the title’s language.

In any case prefix will still exist even if the aliases are translated.