😍😍! Create Slug or Custom URL for Tabs in pages

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Did anyone else notice that we can now create slugs and thus are able to customize the URL to some extent. At least for the tabs in pages…
e.g. {www.glidepage.com/dl/about-us}
Wow…Glide team this is great work :clap::clap:…
I am loving it. Thank you for this addition :muscle:…
This is massive!

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Yep! This has been around since the inception of pages.

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Oh wow!
I had no idea. Its funny that no one seems to have mentioned it because for me, its a very important feature especially for SEO, possibly in the not too distant future…

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how about the further pages though?

How can I replace https://domain.com/dl/blog/s/1d0342/r/4QOWSGpgRa-GlIwIvb7rUQ with
https://domain.com/dl/blog/s/this-is-a-blog ?

This is also crucial - thanks in advance <3

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The only way is to use a service like Short.io (integration available on Business/Enterprise), or send a webhook every time a row is added, with the “slug” to Make and process the URL there using the Short.io module, then bring the new URL back to Glide.

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Thanks for the reply, is there a tutorial for this? I have also cloudfare and I see they support short.io, also made an account with them, but I am not sure how to rename the link from https://domain.com/dl/blog/s/1d0342/r/4QOWSGpgRa-GlIwIvb7rUQ into https://domain.com/dl/blog/s/this-is-ablog, where is Glide taking this link from essentially?

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We have business account for the record (240$ a month)

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When you add a new row, presumably from a form, what you can do is:

  • Pre-construct a “full URL” template column.

Say https://domain.com/dl/blog/s/1d0342/r/4QOWSGpgRa-GlIwIvb7rUQfor example, will have a fixed part: https://domain.com/dl/blog/s/1d0342/r/. The rest is the rowID of the newly created row. You can have a template like:

https://domain.com/dl/blog/s/1d0342/r/{R}

And replace {R} by the rowID.

  • Create a new column to store the Shortened URL.

  • In the on-submit action of the form, use a Short.io integration.

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Domain: Your custom domain, make sure you also configure it in Short.io already

Original URL: The template above

Path: This will be the slug you have to pre-decide. Say in the form, you will have a field to enter this. It will look like blog/s/this-is-a-blog. I don’t think it would carry the dl over. I have done sth like that before.

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Title: Also a field you can have in the form.

Other fields are optional.

Then point the result to the “Shortened URL” column you created in the previous step.

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Thanks a lot for the exlpanation, we will focus on this this week and revert here if there are any questions! <3