How to add hyphen or other valid character in Telligent Blog's Web Addresses and display in Sitecore

Question

I have setup two blogs in the Telligent Community site with few posts in them and I have changed the Web Address for them as shown below with examples of Actual and Expected Url in the sitecore side site,

Sample WebBlog 
 Telligent Blog Web Address setting: Sample-WebBlog 
 Sitecore Actual Url: http://www.site.com/Community/2/b/sample_2D00_weblog

Sitecore Expected Url: **http://www.site.com/Community/Administrators/b/sample-weblog**

Telligent Side Url: http://localhost/tcdemo/administrators/b/sample-webblog/default.aspx | Crystal Report

Sitecore Demo Blog 
 Telligent Blog Web Address setting: Sitecore-Demo-Blog 
 Sitecore Actual Url: http://www.site.com/Community/1/b/sitecore_2D00_demo_2D00_blog

Sitecore Expected Url: http://www.site.com/Community/Administrators/b/sitecore-demo-blog

Telligent Side Url: http://localhost/tcdemo/administrators/b/sitecore-demo-blog/default.aspx

So as seen the Url changes the hypen - to _2D00 while in Sitecore and in Telligent it is completely different.

So how to add hyphen or other valid url character in the Telligent Blog's Web Addresses (displayed in Sitecore) ?

Also How to display the group name instead of Group ID in the url (also check the screenshot from Telligent widget below) ?

Telligent widget - Sitecore debug widget 
 
 Telligent widget - Blog widget

Patrick M. · Answer

Is this an existing site or new development? The reason I ask is this is the Sitecore connector and we stopped distributing and supporting this a couple years ago. IT was since replaced with a software development kit: https://community.telligent.com/community/10/w/developer-training/59711/rest-sdk-and-sitecore

There should not be any new development using the connector, and if this is existing site I would recommend evaluating options for moving to the SDK.

In either case, while you could to some extent manipulate the urls in the connector depending on the version, you can't change the format of the actual keys in question.