CommunityServer: Auto Name Posts setting...

Saw Jeffrey's posts (written in Chinese) couple days ago while my blog site system upgrading to CommunityServer 2007, about recently the trend that to name post in title name for easy identification, but when the title name is not written in English (in this case, Chinese), the system will strip non-English words thus cause highly chance to have duplicate post urls.  Jeffrey's workaround was to modify CS2.1 source code to add the logic that when the title name contains non-English, will change back to post-id naming rule.

Actually I do think that it's pretty good to using post-id style urls for posts, to avoid those potential duplications. and actually it doesn't have to modify source code to let CommunityServer acting back in this way.

Found in CS2.1 (the blogs.msdn.com site) also in CS 2007 site (my blog site) that at the blog control panel under Global Settings / Default Settings for new Posts , at the last option, there is an "Auto Name Posts" choice for user to set if you want the old fashion post-id style (choose No) or the title-name-url style (choose Yes).

I just set the option to No for the post-id style url for all my blog sites since I do have post titles written in Chinese as well as Japanese.

FYI.

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