SharePoint 2013 Managed Navigation - 301 Redirect when Term is Moved?

Question

My client has an issue where they are moving terms around within their SharePoint 2013 managed navigation as part of a website restructure. They (understandably) want to ensure any hits to the former friendly URLs are automatically redirected to their new location. So as a simple example their "About" page used to exist at "/about" but they've since moved that term to point at "/company/about". They would like hits to "/about" to be captured intelligently somehow and redirected to the new term URL.

I doubt this is available out of the box but does anyone have any ideas on how to implement a 301 Redirect for this scenario? For instance is there anything similar to the "Event Receiver" concept for when metadata terms are updated/moved/deleted etc.?

I would appreciate your thoughts. Thanks, James.

Answer 1

Multiple friendly url's is one of the primary uses for managed navigation. Why do you need a 301 redirect as opposed to multiple mappings?

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn194311.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396

Friendly URLs are URLs that correspond to a term in the navigation term set, and that provide a shorter, more meaningful URL to a page. This makes the URL more useful to visitors to your site, and also improves search engine optimization (SEO) for your site. For example, the URL http://www.contoso.com/products/household/vacuum-cleaner is more meaningful to both users and search engines than the URL http://www.contoso.com/Products/Inventory/Pages/productViewer.aspx?productID=115&name=vacuum%20cleaner&CID=34q327234ef. By default, when you create a new page, a new navigation term is created, and a corresponding friendly URL is created for the page. You can use a single friendly URL to point to a single page. You can also have multiple friendly URLs that point to the same page, such as a category page. For example, if you use cross-site publishing to display content from a knowledge base, you can have separate friendly URLs for /kb/manuals, /kb/troubleshooting-guides, and /kb/product-specs that all point to the same category page, Category-KB-Articles.aspx. You do not have to use cross-site publishing to use multiple friendly URLs that point to the same page.