Content modelling > Slugs and permalinks

In DatoCMS you can add to your models a special field type called Slug to let your editors specify the URL permalink of a record.

A slug field is linked to another single-line string field of the same model, usually the title. As soon as the editor begins to type the title, the slug field will be filled with an URL-friendly version of the same string:

The nice thing about slug fields is that, if the editor subsequently updates the record's title, the slug won't change, preserving all the SEO benefits.

How to add a slug field to a model

Say you have a "Blog post" model, start by adding a Title field, then you can add an automatically generating Slug field (you can find it under the SEO group) by selecting the Title field as its reference, under the Validation tab.