Common Question: how can I enable space characters in the Url name of a publishing page

Per default all space characters entered for the url name are converted to a “-” sign. This is usually a good idea as reading something like “My-Press-Release.aspx” looks better than “My%20Press%20Release.aspx”. But some companies have a requirement to use space characters even in Url names of publishing pages.

The option to allow space characters in the url name of publishing pages exists – but it is a little bit hidden.

You can find it here: “Site Actions” – “Site Settings” – “Look and Feel” – “Page Layouts and Site Templates” – scroll down to the bottom and change the “Convert blank spaces in page name to ‘-‘” option.

4 Comments


  1. I'd love to have this conversion on non-publishing pages. Any way to get that?

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  2. Hi Paul,

    afaik this functionality is only available for publishing pages.

    Cheers,

    Stefan

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  3. Hi Stefan,

    Is there anyway to configure this to use another character instead of a hyphen '-'. I would like to convert the blank spaces to an underscore '_' instead of the default hyphen '-'.

    Cheers.

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  4. No, the hyphen is hard coded.

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