Menu path in Pathauto

Question

How do I get pathauto under Drupal 7 to generate a URL alias by the full menu path?

Answer 1

You'll need to install the contrib Token module as well -- although a lot of the features of Token are part of core in D7, some of the edge case tokens (like the full menu path of a given node) aren't provided by core automatically.

With that installed, I believe that [node:menu-link:parent] or [node:menu-link:parent:url] should work.

Answer 2

Just an update in case anyone comes across this with a more recent version of Pathauto/Token. This worked for me:

[node:menu-link:parents:join-path]/[node:menu-link]

Answer 3

Enjoy!

[node:menu-link:parents:join-path]/[node:title].html

Answer 4

This is the solution I use:

[node:menu-link:parents:join:/]/[node:menu-link]

It will separate parent menu items with a dash. That is what I need.

Answer 5

If you're attempting to make aliases for pages that are 3rd level or deeper, for example:

Home page
 > Level 1 page
   > Level 2 page
     > Level 3 page

and you want the alias for Level 3 page to look like http://domain.com/level-1/level-2/level-3, I got it to work for me by setting my pattern to:

[node:menu-link:parent:parent:parent:title]/[node:menu-link:parent:parent:title]/[node:menu-link:parent:title]/[node:title]

Notice that I added :parent to the token, and for the first one I added it twice.

Answer 6

I ended up using:

[node:menu-link:parent:url:path]/[node:menu-link]

Heavy caution though: If the node does not have a menu link, you'll end up without an automatically aliased page. On the bright side, this might make you aware of orphan pages. (Consider it a feature!)

Note that using the pattern:

[node:menu-link:url:path]/[node:menu-link]

will only give the node's menu link, not that of the parent (which would be needed to reference the parent's path).

Or the pattern: [node:parent:url:path]/[node:menu-link]

throws an error in my instance of Drupal 7 about invalid tokens (even though I have the token module installed).