how to access page when hide in navigation is checked and seo permalink is blank

[genfoch01]

I have been asked to help with this site, I am not a weebly expert but the site designer is not avalible so i'm trying to help out. 

I have (many ) pages that where "hide from navigation" is checked  so i was not expecting them to be in the site nav. In addition the page seo > permalink is blank

I happen to know there are QR codes that point to these pages so I thought they must have a URL but I have not been able to find one.  

I know i need to find out more info on how the qr codes were set up ( there is no one technical i can ask ) but I thought they just link to URLs so I"m back to how do i figure out the URL for these pages?

any thoughts would be deeply appreciated

if it helps the site url is : https://www.spiritualitycircle.com

i'd give you the page but I have no clue how to reference it 

thanks for your time. 

J

[genfoch01]

after some testing it seems pages can be accessed even if the "hide from navigation" box is checked  (thats not a surprise as the page visibility is set to “public”

But the SEO settings are completely blank. My understanding is the permalink in the SEO contained the URL slug for the page. but what if its blank?

It seems there is a default page url slug made from the page name. For example

Page name: this is a test page  

Can be accessed using  https://domain/this-is-a-test-page.html

So it seems to convert spaces to dashes and tacks on .html

This works fine for page names with just words and spaces but what about

If the page name looks like this

(UM2) oil painting artist – firstname lastname

Parentheses are not valid characters so how can I find the url for this page?

[Bernadette3]

Thanks for posting, @genfoch01

I just tested this in my account, and can confirm that parentheses are ignored. Spaces are replaced by a single hyphen. Example:

The live URL looks like this:

I hope this helps you out! 😊

[genfoch01 · Accepted solution]

thanks for the response. I was going crazy trying to figure out what the urls of all these pages are and then i downloaded the sitemap.xml which had them.

whats is really weird is some of my pages have a triple dash “---” which got translated to “-ndash-”

So for example I have a page name like

(c3) ancient spirit artist---chuck marshall oil on canvas

Which gets turned into the following url 

c3-ancient-spirit-artist-ndash-chuck-marshall-oil-on-canvas.html

without the sitemap.xml i never would have figured that out. I guess the most important lesson is that while many many pages say the way to check the url of you page is to look at SEO permalink, that is not true. at least no in my case.