Suggestion for improvement to Permalinks plugin

If I've understood correctly this is already possible. In the section editor permalinks field set the default value to news/ 

Thanks for the reply.

I've seen a section called field add ons which has a before and after and looks like it could do what I need but I've tried entering a value in the before and it doesn't save this in the Permalinks DB.

Hi Paul, 

I've attached a screenshot that shows you which field you need to add the prefix to when editing/adding the permalink field, in this example I'm adding the prefix blog/ to my Blog section. 

When creating a record, if the user leaves the permalink field blank, the automatically generated permalink will be prefixed with the default value.

Thanks,

Greg

Thanks Greg, I can see that this works but does give the user the ability to overwrite the default value.

Is there a way to have it so that it can't be overwritten?

Regards, Paul.

Hi Paul, 

There isn't a way to make it so that the user can't edit the permalink by default. We could customize the plugin for you so that this happens. If you send an email to consulting@interactivetools.com we can give you estimate for implementing this feature. 

Cheers,

Greg

Hi,

Just a thought: would making that field a system-field with a default value address this?

Making the field a system field or admin only would save the default value but not the custom added permalink. A plugin could be created to save the custom permalink on post save.

As an alternate and depending on work flow for adding content, one could have an admin only field with a default hidden checkbox checked, then users could add content and then an admin could uncheck hidden to make the record live and create the permalink at the same time.