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l Autosuggest, a search feature that suggests similar terms or common refinements that
searchers have used in the past that are related to the search term. As a user enters
text, possible matches appear
Improved URL Aliasing
Ektron has improved its URL Aliasing feature. Ektron’s URL Aliasing makes it easy to create
descriptive, meaningful and SEO-friendly URL aliases consistently, maximizing your
website’s placement in search results. Use of words and phrases that actually define the
page can increase an aliases’ search engine rankings. If you follow a pattern, you can scale
your aliases across your sites as they grow. Search engines find URL aliases generated by
Ektron. Ektron caches aliases to improve your site's performance.
URLs created in 8.5 migrate seamlessly to 8.6.
You can create the following types of aliases:
l Manual URL Alias—give a content block a unique name. You can assign several
manual aliases to content then decide which one is the primary alias. If multiple alias
types are provided for a content item, you can enter any alias into the browser address
field to access that content.
l Automatic URL Alias—create rules to be applied to the following types of CMS
entities. When you add content to any of the following types, it inherits the URL alias
rules.
o Taxonomy—create an alias that is based on the taxonomy in your CMS by using
the levels of the taxonomy plus the title of the page. Because the alias is based on
taxonomy, you can have multiple aliases that have relevancy to multiple search
criteria.
o Folder—create an alias that is based on the CMS folder structure. Descriptive
folder names and a well-organized folder structure makes a URL more relevant to
the content’s actual location.
o User—create an alias using the name of a user in the URL. For example, a friendly
URL for Steve's profile page can be www.example.com/steve.
o Group—create an alias using the name of a group to help make community pages
within your Ektron website easy to remember and find. For example, a friendly
URL for car enthusiasts would be www.example.com/cars.
l Regular Expressions (RegEx)—create a URL match pattern that can redirect or
transform a range of URLs with a single setting.
l Site Alias—lets an existing site URL have more than one URL for the same site. For
example, if your company‘s name just changed from Bionics to NewGen, (and the site is
essentially intact), you can use site aliasing so your customers can get to the same site
content from the old www.bionics.com address and the new www.newgen.com address.
l URL Redirect Alias—lets a link to an old URL find the new or changed URL that you
want. You use this alias when you need to add, change, or modify an existing URL.
eSync Updates
The following updates were made to eSync:
Improved URL Aliasing
l Content Dependency sync was improved. As of 8.6, Content Sync syncs content and all
entities which have direct dependencies to it. This mostly refers to entities linked within
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