• Nicole S.

  • January 08, 2019 23:06

  Zendesk Community Team

  Thanks for sharing this tip and putting all of this together, Scott!

• Jennifer Rowe

  • January 09, 2019 16:38

  Zendesk Documentation Team

  Scott--another awesome tip from you!

  Thanks so much for sharing this. I love that you always include a helpful video!

  This will help a lot of users! I've added it to our Guide tips master list.

• Eivind

  • January 15, 2019 10:29

  I am currently using a javascript snippet to do this, but it is not in the document_head.hbs file. Is there any advantage to having it in the document_head.hbs file versus the script.js file? 

• Scott Havard

  • January 15, 2019 17:16

  Hey Elvind,

  Seeing that both document_head.hbs and script.js inject into every page, I don’t think one is the better way (I am sure a front end engineer would have an opinion, but my knowledge is limited!).

  Now, the one problem I hit was my redirects wouldn’t work for me if I had the code in script.js. A zendesk authentication script ran before the redirect, so users would be redirected to a login page and not the right article.

  You can double check that by testing your redirect in an incognito window. If they work fine there, then I don’t see why you would move them out of script.js.

  Let us know what you find!

• Eivind

  • January 16, 2019 08:52

  Hi Scott,

  I am surprised that redirects didn't work for you if you had the code in script.js. Do you have some custom code in script.js that runs first?

  Mine works in incognito without problems.

  My script is based on Joe Federic's script here: https://support.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/217958367/comments/360000165468

  I have modified it to have variables for URLs and it builds URLs. It works, but I think it may be less efficient than yours since I am using loops.

  Here's the example code:

  // Redirecting old articles to new articles or redirects
  
  //Define variables for support centre URL redirects, will be used below to build complete redirect URLs
  
  var mainHelpCentreURL = 'https://support.example.com/hc/en-us/';
  var helpCentreArticles = 'articles/';
  var helpCentreCategory = 'categories/';
  var helpCentreSection = 'sections/';
  
  var secondaryHelpCentreURL = 'support2.example2.com/hc/en-us/';
  
  //Use this for redirecting articles to articles
  var one = {
   "1" : "2",
  };
  
  //Use this for redirecting to sections
  var two = {
   "1" : "2",
  };
  
  //Use this for redirecting to categories
  var three = {
   "1" : "2",
    
  };
  
  //Use this for redirecting to landing page
  
  var four = {
    "203325983" : "",
  }
  
  //Loops for redirects
  
  //Loop for redirecting to articles
  
  for (var keyone in one){
   if (window.location.href.indexOf(keyone) > -1){
   window.location.replace(mainHelpCentreURL + helpCentreArticles + one[keyone]);
   }
  };
  
  //Loop for redirecting to sections
  
  for (var keytwo in two){
   if (window.location.href.indexOf(keytwo) > -1){
   window.location.replace(mainHelpCentreURL + helpCentreSection + two[keytwo]);
   }
  };
  
  //Loop for redirecting to categories
  
  for (var keythree in three){
   if (window.location.href.indexOf(keythree) > -1){
   window.location.replace(mainHelpCentreURL + helpCentreCategory + three[keythree]);
   }
  };
  
  //Loop for redirecting to landing page
  
  for (var keyfour in four){
   if (window.location.href.indexOf(keyfour) > -1){
   window.location.replace(mainHelpCentreURL + four[keyfour]);
   }
  };
  
  // End of code for redirecting

• Aswin Kannan

  • March 13, 2020 00:23

  This is incredibly useful. Thank you for sharing. Can we use this to create vanity URLs for the help center?

  Ex: The actual URL of a help article in our Zendesk Guide is https://help.cricut.com/hc/en-us/articles/360043799753-Cricut-Joy-Video-Tutorials.

  Can we create a redirect help.cricut.com/cricut-joy and point it to this article?

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