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Vanity URLs with Magnolia CMS

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Vanity URLs are short, easy to remember Web addresses used for campaigns, microsites and landing pages. They are a key Internet marketing tool. In this post I whip out my vanity cane, clip on my grill and show you how to get vain with Magnolia CMS. A vanity URL typically contains a word or phrase that describes a specific target such as a campaign slogan. When a user visits the vanity URL they are redirected to the actual target site. The URL can be constructed using a: trailing path: www.shell.com/ eco-marathon domain prefix: experience .virgin-atlantic.com domain suffix: www.amazon. de entirely unique domain name: mynavyfuture.com The URL is often reproduced in print ads, hoping that the short and snappy look makes it easier to remember. Magnolia CMS provides two approaches to creating vanity URLs: 1) Virtual URI mapping is used to create path-based vanity URLs. In this mechanism a trailing path is mapped to an actual page. In the configuration example below, www.example.com/winter...
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Doc Jam 2013

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Magnolia Conference 2013 has left town. Time to sum up the results. I organized a Doc Jam session to collect feedback on documentation. If you haven't been to a jam session before, it's pretty simple: Name a documentation topic that is missing. Help us write a table of contents for it. Here are the top three topics proposed by the attendees. 1. Managing system health How can an administrator tell a system is healthy? Symptoms and numbers to watch out for (too many nodes?) Collecting system statistics. Events to log routinely vs. events to log when in trouble. Serious vs. harmless log entries Issue scenarios like what to do when the search stops returning results. Idea! Create a Health app that provides vital stats. 2. Replicating your environment Replicating a complete site to a dev or test environment.  Configuration to change after cloning. Changing subscribers to avoid publishing content to production. 3. Activation (publishing) best practic...
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Duplicate heading anchors in Confluence

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There's a bug in Confluence 4.2 that generates identical IDs for same-name heading elements ( CONF-17962 ). The issue is fixed in Confluence 4.3 but here is a workaround for those stuck with Confluence 4.2 or earlier. Multiple same-name headings on the same page are OK. In fact, they are quite common. When I document objects that have similar properties I need to repeat headings. The problem in Confluence 4.2 is that you can't link to such headings (anchors). The link always points to the first occurrence of the heading. Example : I use the following heading structure in message types documentation: Banners Behavior Levels Examples Looks like How to show Alerts Behavior Levels Examples Looks like How to show Notifications Behavior Levels Examples Looks like How to show Confluence generates IDs using a pattern where page title and heading are concatenated with a hyphen in between: <page title>-<heading name> As a result, the IDs ...
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