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Admin VIEW Link - Choose Root Domain

Feature

When you click the "View" link in the Siteglide Admin for a Page (see here: https://www.screencast.com/t/UXZpCxq1cFVo), it always opens the link using the Siteglide system URL for that site.

So you'll view the page at that URL, which makes sense, we need that URL to work in cases where there are domain issues or a site isn't live just yet.

However, it would be useful for sharing/content/social posting workflows if that View button could fire the URL with the custom URL of our site, not the system one.

My idea is to allow for a setting in the Admin of each site to determine what the root domain of VIEW links is - perhaps in the configuration tab here: https://www.screencast.com/t/MRD26SRlH

Posted by Devon Reehl ·
Status: Completed8 comments

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  • Jon Macmorland

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    Apr 2, 2025

    Hi Matt,
    Seems to work OK on the “View” Link, except if the URL on the Portal is set to be the PROD domain. Example attached. How do we change that? Also it would be good if the “Copy Direct Link” button did the same and used the live domain URL.

    • Matt Walter

      Team•

      Apr 4, 2025

      I’ll take a look through your sites list and amend those.

      Copy Direct URL changing is a different question really, as it’s not prod URL vs vanity URL, but CDN URL vs vanity URL. We always advise to use the CDN URL.

      • Jon Macmorland

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        Apr 4, 2025

        Thanks Matt. It’s more from a client point of view than ours but no problem if it needs to be the CDN URL.

  • Matt Walter

    Team•

    Apr 2, 2025

    This change has been applied to alpha.siteglide.com
    Could you give it a test and confirm it’s working for you please?

    • Devon Reehl

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      Apr 2, 2025

      Matt this appears to be working well for me. Awesome to see!

  • Jon Macmorland

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    Jan 21, 2025

    Would stop Clients being confused as to whether the site they’re viewing is live or not and make it easier to copy and send links to pages.

    • Matt Walter

      Team•

      Jan 22, 2025

      Yep, makes sense. Reason for it being the prod01 URL is that DNS issues don’t get in the way of these links being viewable. It’s rare that’d happen though once a site is fully live! Will keep this in mind.

  • Colin Greenway

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    Oct 4, 2023

    Thanks Devon Reehl. This is a useful improvement. Will discuss with the team & make a note of it for the next sprint discussion.