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Today we're going to be doing a tutorial on how to create pretty URLs in Softr. I'm going to be using Airtable as our backend, and we are working on a player showcase platform. We want these players, which are basically like our users, to have a beautiful URL.
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Note from Softr: While this tutorial uses Airtable as a backend, you can also use Softr Databases to manage your data natively. Connecting to external sources works perfectly, but leveraging Softr Databases directly within your app provides maximum performance and simplifies your setup.
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We want something like your website forward slash their name, for instance, yourwebsite.com forward slash John Doe. On this platform, we have different players, and we want to ensure that they all have their own pretty URLs.
Since this is connected to my Airtable, we can go in and create a field called SEO slug. I made this a formula field that easily combines the first and last names together. Once you make this slug, it's going to automatically add this name into the record URL.
Usually, you would just have a generic string without the name. By adding this SEO slug field, you don't even have to manually connect anything because Softr is going to see this connection on its own. Now you will clearly see the player's name directly in the link.
Keep in mind that you cannot completely remove the record ID to make it purely the name alone. The record ID still has to be included in the URL so that the item details block can properly reference it in the database table. That is the complete process for correctly setting up pretty URLs in Softr.
