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Ticket: Draft Preview inserts the index template name into the URL - is this standard?
| Status | Resolved |
| Add-on / Version | Publisher 3.1.2 |
| Severity | |
| EE Version | 5.3 |
Werner Gusset
Feb 17, 2020The preview template URL in the channel settings must not mention the index template. To preview an entry on a index template we need to enter “/templategroup/{url_title}”. If we would enter the index like “templategroup/index/{url_title}” EE would not show the preview template it would go to our 404. That’ seems ok this way.
But in Publisher the Draft preview always inserts “/index” in to the preview URL like https://www.domain.de/de/lp/index/it-trans-2020-en?publisher_status=draft&publisher_key=xxxxxxxxxx and therefor does not show the preview and will go to our 404 page. Do we copy this Publisher preview URL from the preview window into the browser and delete /index we then would see the draft preview. Or if we would enter the /index segment in the channels preview config we then could see the Draft preview. But EE preview would then give an error.
I am wondering if this is really the case in general for Publisher or is it because of some wrong configuration? Does Publisher in the case I describe ignore the channel setting for the preview template and inserts “/index” automatically without need?
BoldMinded (Brian)
It sounds like it is working as intended and yes Publisher ignores the channel setting for the preview. Publisher’s preview was made long before EE’s so it works a little differently. In my opinion you should pick one type of preview to use, and not use both.
BoldMinded (Brian)
I’m going to look into making the two work better together. I’ll post an update when I have a build to share.
Werner Gusset
Thanks. Ignoring the index segment in the URL is standard in EE since I remember back to EE 1.3. Maybe pMachine did it already
BoldMinded (Brian)
Werner, try the build in the next comment. I added a new setting to use EE’s Live Preview URL in the channel settings page instead of Publisher Draft Preview URL settings. New config option as seen here: https://d.pr/i/WdZzKL and a warning message on Publisher’s settings page indicating that the values are not used if the setting is turned on: https://d.pr/i/OlWHHd
BoldMinded (Brian)
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Werner Gusset
Brian, thank you very much. This is a nice solution and it’s working.
BoldMinded (Brian)
Awesome, good to hear!