Hi,

We use JCE on multiple sites but lately we have come across and issue. We have many clients who we are constantly refreshing content for, which sometimes means creating a duplicate article or menu link for developing the new content before then switching it to be the live version. Whilst the menu item alias remains the same on these updates, the menu item ID or K2 Item ID changes, which then causes any internal links to these pages to break as they IDs no longer match up. We were planning to start adding the links in manually, to allow us to get the SEF version of them however I thought I would have a look at the settings within the link plugin first to see if it could be done automatically using the link picker tool. I have disabled all the settings for adding Item IDs to the urls and enabled the Convert to SEF setting, which has worked to an extent but the Item ID still gets added to the end of the url. So instead of a URL being "about/why-us" it's being added in as "about/why-us/item/186", which isn't very SEF.

Is this a bug with the plugin or have I just missed to change a setting which will remove that?

Thanks,
Dave

If I disable that option, it changes the url back to the "index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&layout=item&id=186&Itemid=940" style url, which is the style we don't want.

The problem we have though, when it's in it's raw format, if we update the menu link or article link it breaks all the internal links we have going to that page. We have had this issue crop up on a couple of client sites and we've had to then go through all the content on the sites to find all the links and manually update them. So are you saying it's not possible for JCE to add a clean SEF link to the articles using the link picker tool?

Well there definitely is an issue with updating the menu links in the raw format. It does indeed render a fully SEF url but it doesn't update the raw links created throughout the site when we update the menu ID or article ID. It sounds like we will just have to manually add the SEF links in ourselves rather than using the link picker tool.

I know, that's why I was wanting to render the links as SEF urls and save them in the db like that.