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I have two sets of users, faculty and staff, with corresponding Profile2 profiles.

I can't figure out how to get different paths for users dependent on roles, e.g, staff/userid or faculty/userid.

I've been trying with both Rules and Pathauto. Seems like it should be simple but can't get work it out.

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  • This should be doable by implementing hook_pathauto_alias_alter in a module.
    – user49
    Sep 8, 2013 at 7:00
  • Thanks, I'll probably try this approach. Was hoping it could be done through UI.
    – paulkeyes
    Sep 8, 2013 at 20:52
  • Another approach would be to use Page Manager (part of ctools).
    – Darvanen
    Nov 18, 2014 at 5:17

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One way would be to create a hidden field on the user account page, and populate that field with Rules during registration. For example, for someone with the Staff role, give it the staff value; for user with the Faculty role, give it the faculty value.

Then, with the Pathauto module, define a pattern for user paths, for example [user:XXXXX]/[user:uid], where XXXXX is the name of the hidden field you created, prefixed with field.

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  • That seems like it could work. I solved this in a similar way, using tokens in URL Alias config (admin/config/search/path/patterns). Rewrote path as: 'people/[user:profile-faculty][user:profile-staff]/[user:name-raw]'. Your tokens would obviously be different, depending on what fields you're calling. May be sub-optimal, but no user will be both faculty AND staff, so it works well enough.
    – paulkeyes
    Feb 5, 2014 at 0:11
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    Keep in mind a user can add a value to a hidden element, so don't rely on that method for sensitive operations.
    – David Thomas
    Aug 25, 2015 at 2:01

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