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I have a main structure as my navigation. Within this structure I have multiple image galleries. I want to make the image gallery's urls dynamic.

If I define a gallery within the structure entry:
https://mysite.com/sport/gallery/

The url of the images in the gallery (which is a channel) should be:
https://mysite.com/sport/gallery/mygallerySlug?type=gallery&parent=parentEntryId

now I would like to have a route which catches all of the ?type=gallery entries and load the "gallery/_entry" template.

It shouldn't matter how deep in the structure the ?type=gallery is.

I don't seem to be able to do this within the CP, and I've never used advanced routing...

Any help appreciated!

EDIT:

Maybe I need to specify a little further:

I have a structure called "pages" which acts as the main structure.
I have a channel that is called "galleries" where I can upload images and assign a category. In my main structure I can assign galleries from within a matrix block and choose a category. That way I can regroup multiple entries from the channel "galleries" in a structure entry.

The urls of the galleries should be completely dynamic:

https://mysite.com/sport/gallery holds multiple gallery entries where each of these galleries should have a url the following way:
https://mysite.com/sport/gallery/gallery1
https://mysite.com/sport/gallery/gallery2 ...

another gallery collection could be here: https://mysite.com/karting/galleries/ whith links like that: https://mysite.com/karting/galleries/gallery3
https://mysite.com/karting/galleries/gallery4
etc..

I know I could specify the entry url of one gallery the following way in the "galleries" section url settings:

{{ craft.entries.id(65).locale('de').first.uri }}/{slug}
where the id is the id of e.g. https://mysite.com/sport/gallery/ structure entry.

But that works only for one gallery.

I could create a route for "sport/gallery/*" and assign the "gallery/_entry" template to it. But that way I would have to create a route for every gallery, which is not completely obvious, nor intuitive on a editor's point of view.

In fact this is almost a duplicate of this question:
dynamic urls for channel/structure that's linked to the main structure

Cheers
Stefan

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  • You don't have to do this in the control panel. You could do it completely in the template. Why do you want to load a specific template based on the query string when you already have "gallery" in the url structure? Not trying to be mean genuinely curious about your use case!
    – Alan Miller
    Commented Apr 12, 2019 at 21:55
  • problem is hitting that "gallery/_entry" template. If I don't define a route, it will generate a 404 page.
    – outline4
    Commented Apr 15, 2019 at 10:27

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You can do this completely in the template. Have the structure entries resolve to a route like gallery/_router and then inside that template you could use this code to include the template of your choice:

{% switch craft.app.request.getParam('type') %}

    {% case "gallery" %}

        {% include "gallery/_entry" %}    

    {% case "anotherParam" %}

        {% include "gallery/_anotherParam" %}

     {% default %}

        {% include "gallery/_default" %}   

{% endswitch %}
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  • Problem is that the page where the ?type parameter is, will generate a 404 error when you don't specify a route... I edited the question to better explain the situation...
    – outline4
    Commented Apr 15, 2019 at 10:28

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