Hide Folder Item Name From URL in Sitecore
In this blog I
will explain how we can exclude an item name from the URL programmatically.
This can be done by using the out of the box alias feature in Sitecore, so when
you create a new item under a specific path, an alias will be created for that
item excluding the item you want to hide.
Aliases are based
on the System/Alias template and defined under /sitecore/system/Aliases. Each
alias name must be unique; the alias template contains a
single field in the data section which allows for selection of the target item.
Sitecore
determines the default URL for an item based on its path, for example, the URL
for /sitecore/content/home/products/product1
is products/product1.
Sometimes you need to have a shorter URL which maps to another
URL, for example, accessing the above link by this URL /product1; and this what I am going walk you through in this blog.
What we need to do
is adding an event on "item:created" to create a new alias whenever
we create a new item under “Products” folder as you see in the below
screenshot:
Below is the
event handler for "item:created":
We need to create
a new config file and add it the App_config folder:
