We like using your redirects package and it has pretty much become the standard with all our Umbraco projects.
But one feature we would like to see is a bulk import to be able to import a large list of redirects in one go. Often the redirects 'required' for a site are determined by the SEO team, who then provide us with a spreadsheet of old and new URLs. If there was a way to import those straight into the dashboard, it would be a real time saver.
So we're thinking the functionality should allow you to upload a CSV or XLSX file which contains the following columns:
- Old URL (relative)
- New URL (relative or absolute if it's an external URL)
- Type (which would be Content, Media or URL)
Apart from selecting the file, the user would also select for which site (or All Sites) they want to upload the redirects, and whether they want to override existing redirects or skip if a redirect already exists.
When clicking Upload it would then parse the CSV/XLSX and then loop through each entry and add or update (if set to update) the RedirectItemRow to the database. This would also involve looking up the Umbraco node IDs of each new URL (if it's Content or Media) since that wouldn't be something the SEO team would look up.
As I said, it's something we would be very keen to see, and we're thinking of adding this ourselves through a PR. But before starting the work we wanted to check first if this functionality would be useful to other people as well, and if we need to think of any other functionality as part of this.
We like using your redirects package and it has pretty much become the standard with all our Umbraco projects.
But one feature we would like to see is a bulk import to be able to import a large list of redirects in one go. Often the redirects 'required' for a site are determined by the SEO team, who then provide us with a spreadsheet of old and new URLs. If there was a way to import those straight into the dashboard, it would be a real time saver.
So we're thinking the functionality should allow you to upload a CSV or XLSX file which contains the following columns:
Apart from selecting the file, the user would also select for which site (or All Sites) they want to upload the redirects, and whether they want to override existing redirects or skip if a redirect already exists.
When clicking Upload it would then parse the CSV/XLSX and then loop through each entry and add or update (if set to update) the RedirectItemRow to the database. This would also involve looking up the Umbraco node IDs of each new URL (if it's Content or Media) since that wouldn't be something the SEO team would look up.
As I said, it's something we would be very keen to see, and we're thinking of adding this ourselves through a PR. But before starting the work we wanted to check first if this functionality would be useful to other people as well, and if we need to think of any other functionality as part of this.