Assigning URL aliases

In create tasks, you can assign URL aliases to nodes by adding the url_alias field to you CSV file, like this:

file,title,field_description,url_alias
IMG_1410.tif,Small boats in Havana Harbour,Some are blue.,/havana_boats
IMG_2549.jp2,Manhatten Island,Manhatten is part of New York City.,/manhatten

No other configuration is required. URL aliases must start with a forward slash (/). When you run Workbench with its --check option, it will check whether each alias starts with this character, and whether the alias already exists.

Note

This method of assigning URL aliases is useful if, for example, you are migrating from another platform and want to retain the URLs of items from the source platform. If you want to assign URL aliases that are derived from node-specific field data (like title, date, taxonomy terms, etc.), you can use the Drupal contrib module Pathauto instead.

You can also assign URL aliases in update tasks:

node_id,url_alias
345,/this_is_a_cool_item
367,/soisthisone

Warning

Even though it is possible for a node to have multiple URL aliases, only one alias shows up in the Drupal "edit" web form for each node.