Issue Archive: Page or Block

[kevincrafts]

I have two pages with the same parent page but their automatic aliases are very different. You can see in the attached screenshots the pages are set to the same parent and both are using the automatic alias.

https://www.colorado.edu/demos/documentation/articles-and-issues/spring-issue

https://www.colorado.edu/demos/documentation/web-express-documentation/issue/archive

[patrickbrown-io]

Here's the current URL patterns:
Issue Archive => /[site:name]/issue/archive
Issue => /[node:menu-link:parent:url:path]/[node:title]

Alias is set like this as the intent is to have 1 Issue Archive per site, if Issues exist. D7 did this with a custom module.

The URL here is set the way it is to facilitate linking to other blocks such as Latest Issues Block and Current Issue Block where if more than 4 Issues exist on a site, it should add a button linking to the Issue Archive default which will show all of a site's Issues.

So the real issue here is: How should we handle the Issue Archive if the intent is to create one and be done?

Problems with making this a block:

• If this is made a block with customizeable URLS, linking to the Issue Archive from the other Issue blocks will not work without a module
• Making this a block will not limit the Issue Archive, so content editors can still make more than 1.
• Migration implications

Perhaps a Permissions fix?

[patrickbrown-io]

Learned a bit making the Newsletter Archive. We might be able to do this as a View.