Orchardcore Autoroute

Orchard Core AutoroutePart - Prompt Templates

Configure AutoroutePart

You are an Orchard Core expert. Generate code and configuration for AutoroutePart URL routing.

Guidelines

• AutoroutePart generates SEO-friendly URLs (permalinks) for content items based on Liquid patterns.
• The default URL pattern is {{ ContentItem | display_text | slugify }}, which derives the slug from the content item's display text.
• AutoroutePart requires TitlePart (or another display text source) to be attached to the content type for display_text to resolve.
• Enable the OrchardCore.Autoroute feature before using AutoroutePart.
• Set AllowCustomPath = true to let editors override the generated URL with a custom path.
• Set ShowHomepageOption = true to allow editors to designate a content item as the site home page.
• Orchard Core automatically appends a numeric suffix (e.g., -1, -2) when a generated slug conflicts with an existing route.
• Liquid patterns have access to ContentItem properties including ContentType, DisplayText, CreatedUtc, and all attached part data.

AutoroutePartSettings Properties

Migration Pattern

public sealed class Migrations : DataMigration
{
    private readonly IContentDefinitionManager _contentDefinitionManager;

    public Migrations(IContentDefinitionManager contentDefinitionManager)
    {
        _contentDefinitionManager = contentDefinitionManager;
    }

    public int Create()
    {
        _contentDefinitionManager.AlterTypeDefinition("{{ContentTypeName}}", type => type
            .DisplayedAs("{{DisplayName}}")
            .Creatable()
            .Listable()
            .Draftable()
            .Versionable()
            .WithPart("TitlePart", part => part
                .WithPosition("0")
            )
            .WithPart("AutoroutePart", part => part
                .WithPosition("1")
                .WithSettings(new AutoroutePartSettings
                {
                    AllowCustomPath = true,
                    ShowHomepageOption = true,
                    Pattern = "{{ ContentItem | display_text | slugify }}"
                })
            )
        );

        return 1;
    }
}

Enabling AutoroutePart via Recipe

{
  "steps": [
    {
      "name": "Feature",
      "enable": [
        "OrchardCore.Autoroute",
        "OrchardCore.Contents"
      ],
      "disable": []
    }
  ]
}

Content Type Definition with AutoroutePart via Recipe

{
  "steps": [
    {
      "name": "ContentDefinition",
      "ContentTypes": [
        {
          "Name": "Article",
          "DisplayName": "Article",
          "Settings": {
            "ContentTypeSettings": {
              "Creatable": true,
              "Listable": true,
              "Draftable": true,
              "Versionable": true
            }
          },
          "ContentTypePartDefinitionRecords": [
            {
              "PartName": "TitlePart",
              "Name": "TitlePart",
              "Settings": {
                "ContentTypePartSettings": {
                  "Position": "0"
                }
              }
            },
            {
              "PartName": "AutoroutePart",
              "Name": "AutoroutePart",
              "Settings": {
                "ContentTypePartSettings": {
                  "Position": "1"
                },
                "AutoroutePartSettings": {
                  "AllowCustomPath": true,
                  "ShowHomepageOption": true,
                  "Pattern": "{{ ContentItem | display_text | slugify }}"
                }
              }
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Common Liquid URL Patterns

# Simple slug from display text
{{ ContentItem | display_text | slugify }}

# Prefixed with content type
{{ ContentItem.ContentType | downcase }}/{{ ContentItem | display_text | slugify }}

# Date-based blog pattern
{{ ContentItem.CreatedUtc | date: '%Y' }}/{{ ContentItem.CreatedUtc | date: '%m' }}/{{ ContentItem | display_text | slugify }}

# Category prefix from a taxonomy field
{% assign terms = ContentItem.Content.Article.Category.TermContentItemIds | terms %}
{% for term in terms %}{{ term | display_text | slugify }}/{% endfor %}{{ ContentItem | display_text | slugify }}

Programmatic Route Management

Use IAutorouteEntries to look up and manage route entries programmatically:

using OrchardCore.Autoroute.Services;

public sealed class RouteService
{
    private readonly IAutorouteEntries _autorouteEntries;

    public RouteService(IAutorouteEntries autorouteEntries)
    {
        _autorouteEntries = autorouteEntries;
    }

    public async Task<string> GetContentItemIdByPathAsync(string path)
    {
        (var found, var entry) = await _autorouteEntries.TryGetEntryByPathAsync(path);

        if (found)
        {
            return entry.ContentItemId;
        }

        return null;
    }
}

Home Page Routing

When ShowHomepageOption is enabled and an editor marks a content item as the home page, Orchard Core routes the site root URL (/) to that content item. Only one content item can be the home page at a time; setting a new home page automatically unsets the previous one.