Vanity URL

With Folloze Vanity URLs, you are able to provide your customers a clean and simple board URL, to maximize traffic to your content boards.

This features changes the way links look in Folloze to this new format:

subdomain.customer.com/alias/categoryname/itemname?token

• Domain Part = Same as before
• Alias = Board alias or board name
• Categoryname = Category name (“home” if no category is specified)
• Itemname = Item name (if linking to a specific item)
• Token = The unique identifier (same as before)

Example Vanity URL:

boards.apple.com/iphone11/features/faceID?token=123

In the above example:

• Alias = iphone11
• Categoryname = features
• Itemname = faceID
• Token = 123

Old Format vs Vanity URL:

Old: boards.apple.com/public/prism/101000?token=27aabb1d72f

New: boards.apple.com/iphone11?token=27aabb1d72f

To set up your board’s Vanity URL:

1. Go to Designer -> General

2. Type in your choice

3. Confirm the changes

Some tips and things to consider:

• The default alias is a randomly generated number.
• The alias has to be unique within your organization (i.e. no 2 boards can use the same alias).
• The URL has to be alphanumeric only, any special characters would be removed, and spaces would be replaced with hyphens ‘-’.
• When changing an alias, the previous URL will still work, so any links you shared in the past will redirect to the new URL.
• The default category is “home” if no other exists.
• The default for items is the item name (title). If the name is not unique, a random 4 digit number will be appended to the item name.
• Appending more parameters to the URL such as UTMs is done as before, with ‘&’.
• The character limit for each element of the URL is 150 characters.
• When copying a board, the alias is not copied, therefore the default alias would be the new board’s name.