How are discussion URLs created?

- October 20, 2017 at 5:52 pm
  
  peteroznewman
  Subscriber
  
  How is the URL created for each discussion?
  
  It seems to be a version of the Title, but on other forums, members can create discussions with the same title for different questions. I expect there is some algorithm to keep all the URLs unique even if the Title is identical.
- October 20, 2017 at 6:08 pm
  
  pgl
  Ansys Employee
  
  That's a great question.
  
  For this thread the URL is /forum/forums/topic/how-are-discussion-urls-created/ so it seems that a thread with the same title would have a conflicting URL. I'll ask our development team to review this.
- October 20, 2017 at 7:07 pm
  
  peteroznewman
  Subscriber
  
  I did an experiment and the identical title has a -1 appended to the URL.
- October 20, 2017 at 7:56 pm
  
  pgl
  Ansys Employee
  
  Phew! Glad the forum handles that. :-)