Can slugs have slashes?

I need a URL path mynation.com/foo/bar/zoo/myslug.

Possible? Looks like NB converts slashes to underscores.

Official response from Jim Gilliam

No, it is not possible to have slashes in slugs.

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John Moser

John Moser commented
When converting an old site with print literature and existing social media posts referencing URLs like /s/donate, you just have to break all existing links and make sure people land on plenty of “Page Not Found” errors.

NationBuilder is apparently so powerful that it’s worth paying thousands a month to damage your brand this way, but not powerful enough to run as a primary Web site with more than a handful of pages (ESPECIALLY press releases, which will pile up as clutter).

Just gotta swing NationBuilder under nb.example.com and keep www.example.com for your legacy stuff.
posted 2018-01-01 13:19:59 -0800
Elliott Blufer

Elliott Blufer commented
Hi Ian,

That actually came to my attention soon after I posted my comment. I appreciate your help, though.

But, I don’t see why it isn’t a possibility to have slugs with slashes in them. It’s a pretty basic thing to use in site architecture, and the legacy redirect feature already shows that there likely isn’t some sort of architecture problem preventing slashes from being used. I still believe this is a feature that should be added.
posted 2013-04-30 14:18:15 -0700
Ian Patrick Hines

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Ian Patrick Hines commented
Elliot, when migrating an from an existing CMS to NationBuilder, one best practice is to use our Legacy URL Importer.

http://nationbuilder.com/siteimporter

The importer can crawl your existing site, map it’s current URL structure, and allow you to specify which pages on your new NationBuilder site those old URLs should redirect to.

Additionally, you can specify individual URLs for redirection whether or not those URLs existed previously on your old site by visiting Pages >> Legacy within your nation’s Control Panel.

(Ex: redirect yoursite.com/issues/economy to yoursite.com/economy)
posted 2013-04-30 14:14:57 -0700
Elliott Blufer

Elliott Blufer commented
When converting sites to NationBuilder, keeping URL structure is important. Without the ability to add slashes, this is not possible.
posted 2013-04-29 13:30:38 -0700
Jerimee Richir

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posted 2013-04-29 13:29:38 -0700
Matthew Petty

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Woops, figured my characters would be escaped automatically… Here it is again:

Consider all event slugs being >nation</events/>slug<

Or blog posts:
>nation</blog/>year</>month</>slug<

Or planks in a campaign platform:
>nation</platform/>slug<
posted 2012-07-20 11:36:47 -0700
Matthew Petty

Matthew Petty commented
IMO, this should be changed. Consider all event slugs being <nation>/events/<slug>

Or blog posts:
<nation>/blog/<year>/<month>/<slug>

Or planks in a campaign platform:
<nation>/platform/<slug>
posted 2012-07-20 11:34:48 -0700
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posted 2011-08-20 16:02:43 -0700
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Jerimee Richir commented
Doesn’t seem to be possible.

Even on the redirect content type submitting slug of /foo/bar/zoo/mypath.html results in all non-alphanumeric being converted to underscores – foo_bar_zoo_mypath_html
posted 2011-08-20 15:48:38 -0700

Can slugs have slashes?

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