Friendly URLs and Search Results - Sharepoint 2013

Publishing Portal and Enterprise Wiki sites feature the convenience of Friendly URLs, which work in tandem with Managed Navigation to replace location-specific URLs with location-agnostic, more human-readable URLs.

• Physical URL: https://contoso.sharepoint.com/sites/Departments/Pages/Information%20Technology.aspx
• Friendly URL: https://contoso.sharepoint.com/sites/Departments/IT

In this example, the page https://contoso.sharepoint.com/sites/Departments/Pages/Information%20Technology.aspx is referenced by the navigation term 'IT'.

By default, the Friendly URL is derived from the name of the navigation term itself, though the Friendly URL can be modified in the Term Store Management Tool. Here, the Friendly URL is changed from https://contoso.sharepoint.com/sites/Departments/IT to https://contoso.sharepoint.com/sites/Departments/Info-Technology.

Before you begin

Before you enable managed navigation, make sure that:

• You enable the SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure feature on the site collection level. 

Enable managed navigation for a site

1. From Settings  , select Site settings.
2. On the Site Settings page, in the Look and Feel section, select Navigation.
   
3. On the Navigation Settings page, in the Global Navigation section, select Managed Navigation: The navigation items will be represented using a Managed Metadata term set.
   
4. In the Current Navigation section, select Managed Navigation: The navigation items will be represented using a Managed Metadata term set.
   
5. In the Managed Navigation: Term Set section, select the term set that you’ll use to specify your site navigation.
   
6. In the Manage Navigation: default page setting Section, select add new pages... and select Create friendly URLs for new pages automatically

1. Select OK.
   

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