Ok, I received your reply on Friday 22nd and then I sent the original AND another email to you - I guess these did not come through. I will paste the outstanding issues here and stick to the forum for now (I am in Mexico at the moment so the Aus/Mex timezone diff are terrible):
Right, I have finally (almost) got on top of my 5.2.1 upgrade and am now looking at the ActiveSocial 1.3.1 upgrade (it is a massive upgrade from the last version). Basically I am switching to AS completely – my main concern is to preserve the SEO for profile URLs. I’ll start from scratch as we’ve had a couple of drawn out emails. I have AS and UM installed on test.pokerdiy.com so you can see it in action.
1. ActiveSocial uses the ASUID param. My current profile uses ID. I need to switch to ASUID – so I need to make sure that the old ID links and the new ASUID links ALL 301 redirect to the DisplayName URL.
2. What I am battling to get my head around is the switch from ID to ASUID and how to preserve the URL (and I am now looking at MultiLanguage which adds another param to the URL).
3. It means that there are a number of scenarios which UM will have to handle with a 301 redirect – I’ll list some example URLs below as testcases.
i. Old style URLs to the page (that are lying around the web) - http://test.pokerdiy.com/poker-player-profile/id/340.aspx (a test user)
ii. URLs that AS is generating (which already have the ASUID param) - http://test.pokerdiy.com/poker-player-profile/asuid/340.aspx
iii. URLs that AS generates with additional params –e.g when you click on the My Settings or My Account
1. http://test.pokerdiy.com/language/en-us/poker-player-profile/asv/profileedit/aspeid/42390.aspx (for some silly reason when you click on Edit Profile it uses a aspeid variable – it would be good if this could do a redirect to the friendly name too) – it does not have the asuid in the url in this case
2. http://test.pokerdiy.com/david-lunasea/asv/myaccount.aspx
3. http://test.pokerdiy.com/david-lunasea/asv/mysettings.aspx
So… I have installed version 1.15.2 that you sent me on my test site (http://Test.pokerdiy.com) – I can give you edit rights on this if you need? I have made it visible to all users so if you log in on the test site you can see it in action.
1. When I look a profile and click on My Settings (http://test.pokerdiy.com/bertram/asv/mysettings.aspx) it does not work properly – do I need to add this to the “Other Parameters in Rewritten Profile” setting? It does keep the “asv/mysettings” (instead of redirecting like it used to) but it does not show the correct screen.
2. How do I get the old ID values to redirect too if the Profile ID is ASUID? Regex expression somewhere? Would it be possible to put 2 variables into the Profile Page URL page perhaps? (ID and ASUID)
I can’t go live with AS until the URLs are working (and the Settings and Account buttons work) – much appreciated!