Dynamic Documentation URLs

The URL of a page or of a binary resource in Dynamic Documentation has a specific format to help you identify the resource.

URL format in the Digital Experience Accelerator Dynamic Documentation
  • The URL of a page has the format BASEURL/PUBLICATIONID/PAGEID/PUBLICATIONTITLE/PAGETITLE
  • The URL of a binary resource has the format BASEURL/binary/PUBLICATIONID/BINARYID/PUBLICATIONTITLE/BINARYTITLE
where:
  • BASEURL is the protocol, host name and port of the public-facing Web site, for example, https://www.example.com:8443/.
  • PUBLICATIONID is a six-digit identifier that identifies the current Publication and that differs from the publication's GUID.
  • PAGEID is a six-digit identifier that identifies the current topic.
  • BINARYID is a six-digit identifier that identifies the current binary resource.
  • PUBLICATIONTITLE is the name of the current Publication (URL-encoded if it contains Unicode symbols).
  • PAGETITLE is the name of the current topic (URL-encoded if it contains Unicode symbols).
  • BINARYTITLE is the name of the current binary resource (URL-encoded if it contains Unicode symbols).

If the resulting URL exceeds 250 characters in total, each of the titles in the URL gets truncated in turn until the full URL is pared down to 250 characters or less.

Because the title parts of the URL are for human consumption only, a Web site visitor can omit the title parts from the URL; the resulting URL still resolves to the same Web page. For example, a shorter version of the URL http://www.example.com/657454/233876/FooInstallationManual/ConfiguringFred would be http://www.example.com/657454/233876/.