Hi Jim,

I also do this frequently, but instead handle the redirect logic in my menu, so no redirects are needed.  I typically create a special doctype called something like "Navigation Link / Pointer" and use uComponents URL Picker so the user can external/internal/media links.

Here's a quick XSLT snippet:

<li>
      <a href="{umbraco.library:NiceUrl(@id)}">
        <xsl:if test="name() = 'NavigationMenuLinkPointer'">
          <xsl:attribute name="href">
            <xsl:call-template name="get-url-picker-link">
              <xsl:with-param name="linkXml" select="./linkTo"/>
            </xsl:call-template>
          </xsl:attribute>
          <xsl:if test="string(./linkTo/url-picker/new-window) = 'True'">
            <xsl:attribute name="target">_blank</xsl:attribute>
          </xsl:if>
        </xsl:if>
        
        <xsl:value-of select="@nodeName"/>
      </a>
</li>

<xsl:template name="get-url-picker-link">
  <xsl:param name="linkXml"/>
    <xsl:choose>
      <xsl:when test="$linkXml/url-picker/@mode = 'URL'">
        <xsl:value-of select="$linkXml/url-picker/url"/>
      </xsl:when>
      <xsl:when test="$linkXml/url-picker/@mode= 'Content'">
        <xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:NiceUrl($linkXml/url-picker/node-id)"/>
      </xsl:when>
      <xsl:when test="$linkXml/url-picker/@mode = 'Media'">
        <xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:GetMedia($linkXml/url-picker/node-id,false())/umbracoFile"/>
      </xsl:when>
      <xsl:when test="$linkXml/url-picker/@mode = 'Upload'">
        <xsl:value-of select="$linkXml/url-picker/url"/>
      </xsl:when>         
      <xsl:otherwise>/</xsl:otherwise>
    </xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>

Of course it might be a bit more work because you have to account for this in all your Navigation macros, but in my opinion is cleaner than doing redirects.

Hope this helps,

Tom

Hey Tom - Nice solution! I was thinking this would be one way to do it but wanted to make sure there wasn't a built in umbraco property. Thanks!

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