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hyperlink issues
I did misunderstand then -- thought you were linking to another Visio page.
Let's take a look at the hyperlink that you've created. Select the printer shape and then select "Window/Show shapesheet" from the main Visio menu. Scroll down in the shapesheet window until you see a blue title bar labeled "Hyperlinks". What's in the Address and the SubAddress fields? One more question: In the saved web page, does the cursor change to a pointing finger when you hover over the printer, as though it thinks a hyperlink is there and then nothing happens when you click? Or does the cursor not even turn to a pointing finger? "Derrick" wrote: I probably didn't specify well enough. My goal is to click on one of the printer shapes and go to the live management page for that printer (so it will be an external web page, not another Visio page). I did change the name on the tab as well just in case, and I still got the same result. "Scott" wrote: |
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Derrick,
Have you played with the FMPrint add-on - if you have Visio Professional 2003 or 2007? I have just written a blog to explain what I know at http://bvisual.spaces.live.com/blog/...33A9!442.entry "Derrick" wrote in message ... I probably didn't specify well enough. My goal is to click on one of the printer shapes and go to the live management page for that printer (so it will be an external web page, not another Visio page). I did change the name on the tab as well just in case, and I still got the same result. "Scott" wrote: It's the characters on the page name tabs in Visio to which I was referring, not the characters in the hyperlink itself. Although your example of a test hyperlink confuses me because I thought the non-working hyperlink led to another page in the same Visio drawing. For example, to create a link to another page: type CTRL+K; click "Browse" next to subaddress; select the target page from the "page" dropdown list; then click OK twice. Is that how you're creating the links from the printer icon to a page or did I misunderstand? "Derrick" wrote: The main shape I've been using as my test has a hyperlink of http://10.45.34.43 From what you said, is it possible that the http:// part could give me problems, or is that only if it's page-to-page links? I did check, and I don't think there are any extra spaces. Thanks, Derrick "Scott" wrote: Derrick, It may sound like an odd question but what do your page names look like? There is an undocumented -- or at least little documented -- issue with page-to-page hyperlinks in Visio. Certain characters that are perfectly legal in Visio page names will prevent hyperlinks from working. For some characters the link won't even work in Visio e.g. question mark and slash ; others affect links in web pages. In general, if you're going to use page-to-page links, stick to letters, numbers and basic punctuation like hyphen and underscore. Also -- and this one is even harder to detect -- make sure there isn't a space character at the end of a page name. It's virtually invisible but will prevent page-to-page links from working. I suspect this one is not your problem because this prevents the link from working in Visio also. Scott -- David Parker Microsoft MVP (Visio) http://bvisual.spaces.live.com http://www.visualizinginformation.com |
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Scott:
On the shapesheet, I show the following: Description: Printer Website Address: http://10.45.34.43 SubAddress: "" ExtraInfo: "" Frame: No Formula SortKey: "" NewWindow: True Default: False Invisible: False When hovering over the printer shape, the mouse pointer doesn't change. David: I am using 2007. Where do you download the FMPrint addin? Thanks to you both "Scott" wrote: I did misunderstand then -- thought you were linking to another Visio page. Let's take a look at the hyperlink that you've created. Select the printer shape and then select "Window/Show shapesheet" from the main Visio menu. Scroll down in the shapesheet window until you see a blue title bar labeled "Hyperlinks". What's in the Address and the SubAddress fields? One more question: In the saved web page, does the cursor change to a pointing finger when you hover over the printer, as though it thinks a hyperlink is there and then nothing happens when you click? Or does the cursor not even turn to a pointing finger? "Derrick" wrote: I probably didn't specify well enough. My goal is to click on one of the printer shapes and go to the live management page for that printer (so it will be an external web page, not another Visio page). I did change the name on the tab as well just in case, and I still got the same result. "Scott" wrote: |
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Sorry, I couldn't see the pictures in your blog, so I missed the part where
you mentioned how to access the addin. It looks like I was using the wrong shape all along, once I used the actual printer Resource shape and not just the generic printer shape then it worked. I still had to apply a hyperlink by using ctrl+k but now it does open the web page. Thanks again to both of you for your help. -Derrick "David Parker" wrote: Derrick, Have you played with the FMPrint add-on - if you have Visio Professional 2003 or 2007? I have just written a blog to explain what I know at http://bvisual.spaces.live.com/blog/...33A9!442.entry "Derrick" wrote in message ... I probably didn't specify well enough. My goal is to click on one of the printer shapes and go to the live management page for that printer (so it will be an external web page, not another Visio page). I did change the name on the tab as well just in case, and I still got the same result. "Scott" wrote: It's the characters on the page name tabs in Visio to which I was referring, not the characters in the hyperlink itself. Although your example of a test hyperlink confuses me because I thought the non-working hyperlink led to another page in the same Visio drawing. For example, to create a link to another page: type CTRL+K; click "Browse" next to subaddress; select the target page from the "page" dropdown list; then click OK twice. Is that how you're creating the links from the printer icon to a page or did I misunderstand? "Derrick" wrote: The main shape I've been using as my test has a hyperlink of http://10.45.34.43 From what you said, is it possible that the http:// part could give me problems, or is that only if it's page-to-page links? I did check, and I don't think there are any extra spaces. Thanks, Derrick "Scott" wrote: Derrick, It may sound like an odd question but what do your page names look like? There is an undocumented -- or at least little documented -- issue with page-to-page hyperlinks in Visio. Certain characters that are perfectly legal in Visio page names will prevent hyperlinks from working. For some characters the link won't even work in Visio e.g. question mark and slash ; others affect links in web pages. In general, if you're going to use page-to-page links, stick to letters, numbers and basic punctuation like hyphen and underscore. Also -- and this one is even harder to detect -- make sure there isn't a space character at the end of a page name. It's virtually invisible but will prevent page-to-page links from working. I suspect this one is not your problem because this prevents the link from working in Visio also. Scott -- David Parker Microsoft MVP (Visio) http://bvisual.spaces.live.com http://www.visualizinginformation.com |
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Derrick -
Were you originally using the Printer shape from the Office Equipment stencil, by chance? I am seeing some odd behavior when using that shape with a hyperlink. In my testing, the issue isn't that the link isn't saved, it is that the mouse over doesn't occur properly over the whole shape. So I was able to get the mouse pointer to change when I hovered over parts of the shape (after I zoomed in a bit), but not others. When I got the mouse pointer, the link worked as expected. Let me know which shape you were using originally, if that is not the shape that you had used. Thanks! Barb Way Product Support - Visio Microsoft Corporation [This posting is provided "As Is" with no warranties, and confers no rights.] -------------------- Sorry, I couldn't see the pictures in your blog, so I missed the part where you mentioned how to access the addin. It looks like I was using the wrong shape all along, once I used the actual printer Resource shape and not just the generic printer shape then it worked. I still had to apply a hyperlink by using ctrl+k but now it does open the web page. Thanks again to both of you for your help. -Derrick "David Parker" wrote: Derrick, Have you played with the FMPrint add-on - if you have Visio Professional 2003 or 2007? I have just written a blog to explain what I know at http://bvisual.spaces.live.com/blog/...33A9!442.entry "Derrick" wrote in message ... I probably didn't specify well enough. My goal is to click on one of the printer shapes and go to the live management page for that printer (so it will be an external web page, not another Visio page). I did change the name on the tab as well just in case, and I still got the same result. "Scott" wrote: It's the characters on the page name tabs in Visio to which I was referring, not the characters in the hyperlink itself. Although your example of a test hyperlink confuses me because I thought the non-working hyperlink led to another page in the same Visio drawing. For example, to create a link to another page: type CTRL+K; click "Browse" next to subaddress; select the target page from the "page" dropdown list; then click OK twice. Is that how you're creating the links from the printer icon to a page or did I misunderstand? "Derrick" wrote: The main shape I've been using as my test has a hyperlink of http://10.45.34.43 From what you said, is it possible that the http:// part could give me problems, or is that only if it's page-to-page links? I did check, and I don't think there are any extra spaces. Thanks, Derrick "Scott" wrote: Derrick, It may sound like an odd question but what do your page names look like? There is an undocumented -- or at least little documented -- issue with page-to-page hyperlinks in Visio. Certain characters that are perfectly legal in Visio page names will prevent hyperlinks from working. For some characters the link won't even work in Visio e.g. question mark and slash ; others affect links in web pages. In general, if you're going to use page-to-page links, stick to letters, numbers and basic punctuation like hyphen and underscore. Also -- and this one is even harder to detect -- make sure there isn't a space character at the end of a page name. It's virtually invisible but will prevent page-to-page links from working. I suspect this one is not your problem because this prevents the link from working in Visio also. Scott -- David Parker Microsoft MVP (Visio) http://bvisual.spaces.live.com http://www.visualizinginformation.com |
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That's exactly what I was trying to do, though I didn't get the mouse to
change at all on any part of the shape. After some experimenting with the printer resource shape, I'm finding that it would still be nice to find a way to do it with the printer shape instead. "Barb Way" wrote: Derrick - Were you originally using the Printer shape from the Office Equipment stencil, by chance? I am seeing some odd behavior when using that shape with a hyperlink. In my testing, the issue isn't that the link isn't saved, it is that the mouse over doesn't occur properly over the whole shape. So I was able to get the mouse pointer to change when I hovered over parts of the shape (after I zoomed in a bit), but not others. When I got the mouse pointer, the link worked as expected. Let me know which shape you were using originally, if that is not the shape that you had used. Thanks! Barb Way Product Support - Visio Microsoft Corporation [This posting is provided "As Is" with no warranties, and confers no rights.] -------------------- Sorry, I couldn't see the pictures in your blog, so I missed the part where you mentioned how to access the addin. It looks like I was using the wrong shape all along, once I used the actual printer Resource shape and not just the generic printer shape then it worked. I still had to apply a hyperlink by using ctrl+k but now it does open the web page. Thanks again to both of you for your help. -Derrick "David Parker" wrote: Derrick, Have you played with the FMPrint add-on - if you have Visio Professional 2003 or 2007? I have just written a blog to explain what I know at http://bvisual.spaces.live.com/blog/...33A9!442.entry "Derrick" wrote in message ... I probably didn't specify well enough. My goal is to click on one of the printer shapes and go to the live management page for that printer (so it will be an external web page, not another Visio page). I did change the name on the tab as well just in case, and I still got the same result. "Scott" wrote: It's the characters on the page name tabs in Visio to which I was referring, not the characters in the hyperlink itself. Although your example of a test hyperlink confuses me because I thought the non-working hyperlink led to another page in the same Visio drawing. For example, to create a link to another page: type CTRL+K; click "Browse" next to subaddress; select the target page from the "page" dropdown list; then click OK twice. Is that how you're creating the links from the printer icon to a page or did I misunderstand? "Derrick" wrote: The main shape I've been using as my test has a hyperlink of http://10.45.34.43 From what you said, is it possible that the http:// part could give me problems, or is that only if it's page-to-page links? I did check, and I don't think there are any extra spaces. Thanks, Derrick "Scott" wrote: Derrick, It may sound like an odd question but what do your page names look like? There is an undocumented -- or at least little documented -- issue with page-to-page hyperlinks in Visio. Certain characters that are perfectly legal in Visio page names will prevent hyperlinks from working. For some characters the link won't even work in Visio e.g. question mark and slash ; others affect links in web pages. In general, if you're going to use page-to-page links, stick to letters, numbers and basic punctuation like hyphen and underscore. Also -- and this one is even harder to detect -- make sure there isn't a space character at the end of a page name. It's virtually invisible but will prevent page-to-page links from working. I suspect this one is not your problem because this prevents the link from working in Visio also. Scott -- David Parker Microsoft MVP (Visio) http://bvisual.spaces.live.com http://www.visualizinginformation.com |
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I didn't get a chance to play with this further, but it appears that the
shape is acting as though it is 'empty', as I can get the mouse over hand when I zoom in and hover over one of the lines, but not over the open areas. Weird. None of the other printer shapes do the same thing. I already tried re-doing the alignment box, that didn't change it. You might try grouping the shape with a rectangle which you make 100% transparent, and see if that helps. Barb Way Product Support - Visio Microsoft Corporation [This posting is provided "As Is" with no warranties, and confers no rights.] -------------------- Thread-Topic: hyperlink issues thread-index: AcjAU0QwTzfAxgQWQayvcTewHFwHuQ== X-WBNR-Posting-Host: 207.46.19.197 From: =?Utf-8?B?RGVycmljaw==?= References: Subject: hyperlink issues Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 16:42:03 -0700 Lines: 131 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: Microsoft CDO for Windows 2000 Content-Class: urn:content-classes:message Importance: normal Priority: normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.3790.2992 Newsgroups: microsoft.public.visio.general Path: TK2MSFTNGHUB02.phx.gbl Xref: TK2MSFTNGHUB02.phx.gbl microsoft.public.visio.general:7890 NNTP-Posting-Host: tk2msftsbfm01.phx.gbl 10.40.244.148 X-Tomcat-NG: microsoft.public.visio.general That's exactly what I was trying to do, though I didn't get the mouse to change at all on any part of the shape. After some experimenting with the printer resource shape, I'm finding that it would still be nice to find a way to do it with the printer shape instead. "Barb Way" wrote: Derrick - Were you originally using the Printer shape from the Office Equipment stencil, by chance? I am seeing some odd behavior when using that shape with a hyperlink. In my testing, the issue isn't that the link isn't saved, it is that the mouse over doesn't occur properly over the whole shape. So I was able to get the mouse pointer to change when I hovered over parts of the shape (after I zoomed in a bit), but not others. When I got the mouse pointer, the link worked as expected. Let me know which shape you were using originally, if that is not the shape that you had used. Thanks! Barb Way Product Support - Visio Microsoft Corporation [This posting is provided "As Is" with no warranties, and confers no rights.] -------------------- Sorry, I couldn't see the pictures in your blog, so I missed the part where you mentioned how to access the addin. It looks like I was using the wrong shape all along, once I used the actual printer Resource shape and not just the generic printer shape then it worked. I still had to apply a hyperlink by using ctrl+k but now it does open the web page. Thanks again to both of you for your help. -Derrick "David Parker" wrote: Derrick, Have you played with the FMPrint add-on - if you have Visio Professional 2003 or 2007? I have just written a blog to explain what I know at http://bvisual.spaces.live.com/blog/...33A9!442.entry "Derrick" wrote in message ... I probably didn't specify well enough. My goal is to click on one of the printer shapes and go to the live management page for that printer (so it will be an external web page, not another Visio page). I did change the name on the tab as well just in case, and I still got the same result. "Scott" wrote: It's the characters on the page name tabs in Visio to which I was referring, not the characters in the hyperlink itself. Although your example of a test hyperlink confuses me because I thought the non-working hyperlink led to another page in the same Visio drawing. For example, to create a link to another page: type CTRL+K; click "Browse" next to subaddress; select the target page from the "page" dropdown list; then click OK twice. Is that how you're creating the links from the printer icon to a page or did I misunderstand? "Derrick" wrote: The main shape I've been using as my test has a hyperlink of http://10.45.34.43 From what you said, is it possible that the http:// part could give me problems, or is that only if it's page-to-page links? I did check, and I don't think there are any extra spaces. Thanks, Derrick "Scott" wrote: Derrick, It may sound like an odd question but what do your page names look like? There is an undocumented -- or at least little documented -- issue with page-to-page hyperlinks in Visio. Certain characters that are perfectly legal in Visio page names will prevent hyperlinks from working. For some characters the link won't even work in Visio e.g. question mark and slash ; others affect links in web pages. In general, if you're going to use page-to-page links, stick to letters, numbers and basic punctuation like hyphen and underscore. Also -- and this one is even harder to detect -- make sure there isn't a space character at the end of a page name. It's virtually invisible but will prevent page-to-page links from working. I suspect this one is not your problem because this prevents the link from working in Visio also. Scott -- David Parker Microsoft MVP (Visio) http://bvisual.spaces.live.com http://www.visualizinginformation.com |
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