Hi,

Our public facing sitemap shows broken links for channels that contain no
postings.
As I understand it I should be able to go into Channel properties in Site
Manager and then into the publishing tab and Select Navigation URL, and
specify an existing posting to be used as the default page for that Channel,
even if that posting is inside a sub channel of the Parent Channel I'm tryin
g
to configure. However that Navigation URL field won't allow a full colon so 
a
fully qualified URL can't be entered. So then I tried an absolute URL such a
s
/bene/home/BeneHome.
/bene is the parent channel that I'm trying to configure to use a specific
home page since it has NO pages of its own just sub channels. /bene/home is
the sub channel that has the page /bene/home/BeneHome that I want to be
displayed when a visitor clicks on the /bene channel. Hoever as far as I can
tell that field does nothing. No matter what value I put in there it has no
effect.

What am I missing here?

Thanks.

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Hi Ninerfan,

the default posting needs to be a posting in the current channel.
It is not possible to specify a posting in a child channel.

If you have empty channels you should add a channel rendering script to the
channel that automatically redirects to the location you want the user to go
to.

Cheers,
Stefan

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"Ninerfan" <Ninerfan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> Our public facing sitemap shows broken links for channels that contain no
> postings.
> As I understand it I should be able to go into Channel properties in Site
> Manager and then into the publishing tab and Select Navigation URL, and
> specify an existing posting to be used as the default page for that
> Channel,
> even if that posting is inside a sub channel of the Parent Channel I'm
> trying
> to configure. However that Navigation URL field won't allow a full colon
> so a
> fully qualified URL can't be entered. So then I tried an absolute URL such
> as
> /bene/home/BeneHome.
> /bene is the parent channel that I'm trying to configure to use a specific
> home page since it has NO pages of its own just sub channels. /bene/home
> is
> the sub channel that has the page /bene/home/BeneHome that I want to be
> displayed when a visitor clicks on the /bene channel. Hoever as far as I
> can
> tell that field does nothing. No matter what value I put in there it has
> no
> effect.
>
> What am I missing here?
>
> Thanks.

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Yeah that's what I was afraid of. Oh well I guess I'll go with the channel
rendering script.

Thanks for the clarification Stefan.

"Stefan [MSFT]" wrote:

> Hi Ninerfan,
>
> the default posting needs to be a posting in the current channel.
> It is not possible to specify a posting in a child channel.
>
> If you have empty channels you should add a channel rendering script to th
e
> channel that automatically redirects to the location you want the user to 
go
> to.
>
> Cheers,
> Stefan
>
> --
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights
>
> New to MCMS?
> Check out this book: Building Websites Using MCMS: [url]http://tinyurl.com/6zj44[/url
]
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>
>
> "Ninerfan" <Ninerfan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:A7801557-517C-4600-ADE9-1236923C62BC@microsoft.com... 
>
>
>

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