Disable automatic redirects for certain document types

[bjarnef]

Automatic redirects are great when renaming or moving nodes.
However often we have content nodes to hold data, where redirects don't matter, e.g. some categories, settings, etc.

Besides that redirects dashboard allow to delete single redirects one at the time.
Any reason this can't use a collection with options to select multiple redirects at one to delete?

[skttl]

Basically the redirect tracking should simply not track nodes without a template.

[bjarnef]

Well, I disagree as it is possible with route hijacking and a render controller to return the view explicit without any templates selected or configured for document type.

Furthermore in headless setup with Delivery API, we don't have razor views/templates at all, but frontend using Nuxt, Vue and PrimeVue, where we fetch the redirects to Nuxt application.

[karlmacklin]

I second bjarnef, simple going by template assignment would be a no-go solution for us (mainly headless solutions).

[bjarnef]

It guess a toggle on the content type would be the best solution similar to content cleanup settings.

Perhaps the settings should be disabled/hidden for element types.

[AndyButland]

Just wanted to share here this PR #22985, that we are planning for 18.1. We'll provide via this notifications like you have for other entities, allowing cancellation of redirect creation using a custom notification handler. With that it's possible to provide the logic you need to decide whether a redirect should be created - can look to see if a template is assigned, can look for what the document type is etc. - and avoids, for now, any further UI.

[bjarnef]

We could probably cancel if content type doesn't implement SEO composition.
Perhaps it would be a great example in docs to show how it can be customized 😎👍

[AndyButland]

Yes, a docs PR is being prepared.

[NillasKA]

Docs PR has been created here: umbraco/UmbracoDocs#8120