URL with query string

The education coordinator in our division has used Visio 2000 for the past few years to create and maintain an html/gif image floor map of our division. Each little office in this drawing is image mapped and has a hyperlink that passes paramenters to a cgi script which returns a personal information page on the employee who works in that office. We have found that when opening the .vsd file in Visio @002, those parameters are truncated. This leaves only the path to the cgi script, minus the parameters, making the script useless.

(i.e., /path/to/employeeinfo.cgi versus /path to employeeinfo.cgi?type=empnum&lookup=01234&group=bl ue)

Even when we use Visio 2002 to re-enter the parameters in the hyperlink, saving the file to html causes them to disappear again. Any help would be appreciated.

Please see the following KB article for a workaround:
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;299175

Also, note that this is fixed in Visio 2002 SP2.

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Andy Howe
Microsoft Corporation

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"BillyAZ" wrote in message
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The education coordinator in our division has used Visio 2000 for the past
few years to create and maintain an html/gif image floor map of our
division. Each little office in this drawing is image mapped and has a
hyperlink that passes paramenters to a cgi script which returns a personal
information page on the employee who works in that office. We have found
that when opening the .vsd file in Visio @002, those parameters are
truncated. This leaves only the path to the cgi script, minus the
parameters, making the script useless.

(i.e., /path/to/employeeinfo.cgi versus /path to
employeeinfo.cgi?type=empnum&lookup=01234&group=bl ue)

Even when we use Visio 2002 to re-enter the parameters in the hyperlink,
saving the file to html causes them to disappear again. Any help would be
appreciated.

Thank you, Andy. We will look into getting SP2 installed.

----- Andy Howe [MS] wrote: -----

Please see the following KB article for a workaround:
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;299175

Also, note that this is fixed in Visio 2002 SP2.

--
Andy Howe
Microsoft Corporation

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.


"BillyAZ" wrote in message
...
The education coordinator in our division has used Visio 2000 for the past
few years to create and maintain an html/gif image floor map of our
division. Each little office in this drawing is image mapped and has a
hyperlink that passes paramenters to a cgi script which returns a personal
information page on the employee who works in that office. We have found
that when opening the .vsd file in Visio @002, those parameters are
truncated. This leaves only the path to the cgi script, minus the
parameters, making the script useless.
(i.e., /path/to/employeeinfo.cgi versus /path to
employeeinfo.cgi?type=empnum&lookup=01234&group=bl ue)
Even when we use Visio 2002 to re-enter the parameters in the hyperlink,
saving the file to html causes them to disappear again. Any help would be
appreciated.