Hi Jon

This sounds like an ideal candidate for using the Skybrud Redirects package. Just before you unpublish the page you add an entry to Skybrud redirects and point it to the event ended page. You could even go further and hook into the unpublish event and write it into the Skybrud Redirects table automatically.

https://our.umbraco.com/packages/website-utilities/skybrud-redirects/

Kind regards

Paul

Thank you so much. Is it possible to add a redirect into the redirects table via the Skybrud code? I have had a look but couldn't find anything but probably looking in the wrong place.

Do you have any example code?

Thanks again

Hi Jon,

I did this using nPoco.

First I made a model matching all the columns in the table created by the Skybrud package.

using System;
using System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations;
using NPoco;

namespace DentsuX.Web.Models
{
    [TableName("dbo.SkybrudRedirects")]
    [PrimaryKey("Id", AutoIncrement = true)]

    public class SkybrudRedirectModel
    {
        public SkybrudRedirectModel()
        {
        }

        public int Id { get; set; }

        public Guid Key { get; set; }

        public int RootId { get; set; }

        public Guid RootKey { get; set; }

        [MaxLength(255)]
        public string Url { get; set; }

        [MaxLength(255)]
        public string QueryString { get; set; }

        [MaxLength(255)]
        public string DestinationType { get; set; }

        public int DestinationId { get; set; }

        public Guid DestinationKey { get; set; }

        [MaxLength(255)]
        public string DestinationUrl { get; set; }

        public DateTime Created { get; set; }

        public DateTime Updated { get; set; }

        public bool IsPermanent { get; set; }

        public bool IsRegex { get; set; }

        public bool ForwardQueryString { get; set; }
    }
}

Then in a service I made an add method:

private void AddRedirect(SkybrudRedirectModel model)
        {
            try
            {
                db.Insert<SkybrudRedirectModel>(model);
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                Current.Logger.Error<CultureFallbackService>(string.Format(ErrorLog, "AddRedirect", ex.Message));
            }
        }

Then call that add method (either in the service or from where you hook into the publish event.

var newRedirect = new SkybrudRedirectModel()
{
   Key = Guid.NewGuid(),
   RootId = 0,
   RootKey = new Guid(),
   Url = [old url here],
   QueryString = string.Empty,
   DestinationType = "url",
   DestinationId = 0,
   DestinationKey = new Guid(),
   DestinationUrl = [new url here],
   Created = DateTime.Now,
   Updated = DateTime.Now,
   IsPermanent= true,
   IsRegex = false,
   ForwardQueryString = false
   };

this.AddRedirect(newRedirect);

Hope this helps you.

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