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When editing a record on your IASP website, you may notice a field called "URL" which generally appears near the top of the editor, below the record name.

This field is used to customise the URL of the page you are editing.

If you leave this field blank, the system will generate a URL for the page based on the title of the page.

Under some circumstances, you may want to manually enter an address for the page, but most of the time when you create a record you will leave this field blank.

Example:

If I create a Section on a website called "My Section" and leave the URL field blank, then the URL field will auto-fill with My-Section and the page will be created with something like the following address:

http://www.examplewebsitedomain.com.au/My-Section.aspx

If I then edit this page again, I will see that the URL field now contains the automatically generated text 'my-section'. This is a search-engine friendly address.

If I decide later that I want to change the name of my page, the URL will remain the same unless I manually delete or change it from the URL field. I may want to leave the URL the same so that I don't lose my Google "Page Rank", or I may want to change it, if the Page Rank for that page is not very important.

Other reasons I may want to change the URL would be if the title of the page was very long, and it was a URL that I wanted to advertise.

For Example: I might have a section on my website called Special Offers and have a special offer for free widgets in October 2008. I may title this page "Free Widgets in October". If I leave the URL field blank then the URL field will auto-fill with Free-Widgets-in-October, and the page will have something like the following address:

http://www.examplewebsitedomain.com.au/Special-Offers/Free-Widgets-in-October.aspx

I might decide that I think the URL is too long, and that people might mis-type it if I advertise this address. If I manually change the URL field in this record to read October2008 and then the url of this special offer page would be:

http://www.examplewebsitedomain.com.au/Special-Offers/October2008.aspx

If you don't know what to put in the URL field, chances are that leaving it blank is the best thing to do. It will fill itself in and you won't need to worry about it. If you have further questions about the URL field, raise a support ticket from within your IASP control panel, or contact IASP Support on 03 9329 1022.

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