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I’ve noticed two issues related to Collections URLs.

1- If the Collection’s name has accents, the permalink removes that letter. e.g.

Gestión de Incidentes → collections/Gestin-de-Incidentes

That’s a problem for many languages that have accents. Some will argue is just cosmetic but it matters.

Also I think the permalink should be downcased, but that's a personal preference.

2- If you change the Collection’s name, the URL also changes.

That can be problematic if users save URLs in their bookmarks or use a URL shortener to reference a Collection.

IMO, once the collection is created, you should keep the URL and add an option to the Collection settings to allow collection owners change the URL if needed.

Thanks Emili, 

I appreciate the feedback and I wanted to assure that the permalinks will continue to work if you rename the collection.

Collection links (and Card links) contain a unique ID that is used to identify the Collection and it does not use the collection name. The format for the Collection URL is:

https://app.getguru.com/collections/{collection id}/{name of collection}

The name of collection can change, so the “collection id” is used. Once the Collection page is loaded, then the URL is updated to reflect the new name.

Bookmarks and URL shorteners will still work even if the name changes.

Hope that helps - the other feedback re: leaving diacritics inside URLs is a valid one, thank you!

Thanks Mitch, I didn’t realize the ID was in the URL.

Regarding diacritics, I’m not suggesting having them in the URL, it’s weird and even if you speak a language with diacritics, we are used to not seeing them in URLs. My proposal was to keep the character but without the diacritic:

Gestión de Incidentes → collections/{id}/gestion-de-Incidentes

Thx!

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