How do I get pathauto under Drupal 7 to generate a URL alias by the full menu path?

How to programmatically bulk alias node urls by using only drupal 7 core (with it's great batch API !)? My question is actually how to make drupal use and recognise the aliases stored in url_alias...

I am having fundamental problems understanding when to use a pathauto rule, and when to use a views page path. I have several custom content types, and I am using blocks to display certain parts of...

I'm trying to create a Pathauto pattern which looks like "Drupal root/parent_menu_item_name/node_title" where "node_title" is a child of "parent_menu_item_name" in the menu hierarchy. I've tried ...