preferredUrl usage

>
> I have only been using AIDA for two days so please forgive me if  
> this a
> really stupid question. I have a simple site working following the  
> tutorial,
> but using different domain objects; ContestSite and Contests. Both  
> have App
> objects with view methods. The ContestSite lists contests in a tabular
> format with links to the underlying Contest object.
>
> I am trying to use preferredUrl to create nice links like this:
>
> preferedUrl
> | aTitle |
> aTitle := self title trimBlanks.
> aTitle := aTitle copyReplaceAll: ' ' with: '-'.
>
>        ^'/contest/',  aTitle, '.html'
>
> My problem is that my method seems to never get sent. I have stopped  
> and
> restarted the server, removed and re-added the site, put halts in  
> the method
> and tried implementing the method on both the App and the model  
> object, but
> nothing works. Am I supposed to send this message explicitly in
> ContestSite's viewMain ?
>
> Thanks in advance for any help.
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> I have only been using AIDA for two days so please forgive me if this a
> really stupid question. I have a simple site working following the tutorial,
> but using different domain objects; ContestSite and Contests. Both have App
> objects with view methods. The ContestSite lists contests in a tabular
> format with links to the underlying Contest object.
>
> I am trying to use preferredUrl to create nice links like this:
>
> preferedUrl
> | aTitle |
> aTitle := self title trimBlanks.
> aTitle := aTitle copyReplaceAll: ' ' with: '-'.
>
>         ^'/contest/',  aTitle, '.html'
>
> My problem is that my method seems to never get sent. I have stopped and
> restarted the server, removed and re-added the site, put halts in the method
> and tried implementing the method on both the App and the model object, but
> nothing works. Am I supposed to send this message explicitly in
> ContestSite's viewMain ?
>
> Thanks in advance for any help.

> Thanks Janko and Giuseppe for your responses. Janko's response explained the
> caching behavior thats been driving me mad. Now I have another problem. I
> stopped my site, removed it, re-created it, stopped the SwazooServer, and
> evaluated this in a workspace:
>
> | site  |
>
> site := UwaliContestSite demo.
> (AIDASite named: 'uwali') urlResolver defaultURL: '/uwali.html' forObject:
> site .
> (AIDASite named: 'uwali')
>         urlResolver changeToPreferedURL: site.
> site contests do:[ :aContest |
> (AIDASite named: 'uwali')
>         urlResolver changeToPreferedURL: aContest].
>
>
> The demo method creates some dummy contest objects, adds them to the
> contestSite and persists the site as the root object to a GOODS database,
>
> The preferedURL method is on the instance side of ContestApp and looks like
> this:
>
> preferedUrl
> | aTitle |
> aTitle := self title trimBlanks.
> aTitle := aTitle copyReplaceAll: ' ' with: '-'.
> ^'/uwali/', aTitle, '.html'.
>
> The view method of ContestSite looks like this:
>
> viewMain
>         | e |
>         e := WebElement new.
>         e addTextH1: 'Uwali Contest Site'.
> e table class: #webGrid.
>        self observee contests do: [:each |
>             e cell addText: each title.
> e newCell addText: each categoryTitle.
>             e newCell addText: ', ', each shortDescription.
> e newCell addLinkTo: each  text: each title.
>             e newRow].
>         self pageFrameWith: e title: 'Contest Site'
>
> Now the link looks good (eg. /uwali/dummy-contest-one.html ), but when I
> click on it, I get an error message that says "Cannot find aWebApplication
> for object aContest". I'm sure that the problem is with my addLinkTo: syntax
> above, but I'm not sure how to fix it.
>
> Thanks
>
> Leon