Linking pages and files

Creating permanent links to pages

If you need to create a permanent link to a page, use a URL in the following format:

<domain>/getdoc/<page GUID>/<page name><extension>

• <page GUID> is the globally unique identifier of the page. You can find a page’s GUID value in Pages -> Properties -> General -> Node GUID.
• The <page name> value may contain any text — it is not used by the system, but allows you to specify the exact URL (e.g. for the purposes of search engine optimization). By default, the system uses the page’s name.

Permanent links keep working even if you move the target page to another location.

For example:

http://www.example.com/getdoc/016fad52-0d69-46d5-80dc-daec9173c0c7/Products.aspx

is the permanent equivalent of:

http://www.example.com/company/products.aspx

Linking specific language versions of pages

If you need to link to a specific language version of a page, you use a URL in the following format:

<domain>/getdoc/<page GUID>/<page name>/<culture code><extension>

For example:

http://www.example.com/getdoc/8FG7-84E394-FABD-5678/our-services/fr-fr.aspx

Displays the given page in French (if the page is translated). It is an equivalent of:

http://www.example.com/company/our-services.aspx?lang=fr-fr

Linking attachments

If you need to create a permanent link to a file uploaded as a page attachment, you use a URL in the following format:

<domain>/getattachment/<file GUID>/<filename><extension>

• The <file GUID> is not the same as the page GUID. It is the GUID of the file in the CMS_Attachment database table. To find the GUID of an attachment, click the attachment in Pages -> Properties -> Attachments and view the URL.
• The <file name> value can contain any text.

For example:

http://www.example.com/getattachment/763c8921-be94-4610-99b4-25e8d3be5b08/logo.aspx

Parameterizing file retrieval

The system uses a handler whenever you use /getdoc, /getattachment or a direct URL based on the alias path of a CMS.File page.

You can use the following query string parameters to parametrize GetFile URLs: