Hyperlink Outlook Localhost Facepalm
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Working on a project using PDF forms and an iPad... wanted to transfer data to a local form through a hyperlink in an email... The link that will work is something like: pdfexfile:///templates/Packet10_14_13.pdf?Name_1=Testname&Address=123testdr or pdfexfile://localhost/templates/Packet10_14_13.pdf?Name_1=Testname&Address=123testdr Either hyperlink (when sent through outlook) ends up like: pdfexfile://templates/Packet10_14_13.pdf?Name_1=Testname&Address=123testdr (Notice the slashes, without the 3rd or the localhost parm it will never work) Evidently, there is no way to override this behavior and is considered a "feature". :doh:
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Working on a project using PDF forms and an iPad... wanted to transfer data to a local form through a hyperlink in an email... The link that will work is something like: pdfexfile:///templates/Packet10_14_13.pdf?Name_1=Testname&Address=123testdr or pdfexfile://localhost/templates/Packet10_14_13.pdf?Name_1=Testname&Address=123testdr Either hyperlink (when sent through outlook) ends up like: pdfexfile://templates/Packet10_14_13.pdf?Name_1=Testname&Address=123testdr (Notice the slashes, without the 3rd or the localhost parm it will never work) Evidently, there is no way to override this behavior and is considered a "feature". :doh:
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Working on a project using PDF forms and an iPad... wanted to transfer data to a local form through a hyperlink in an email... The link that will work is something like: pdfexfile:///templates/Packet10_14_13.pdf?Name_1=Testname&Address=123testdr or pdfexfile://localhost/templates/Packet10_14_13.pdf?Name_1=Testname&Address=123testdr Either hyperlink (when sent through outlook) ends up like: pdfexfile://templates/Packet10_14_13.pdf?Name_1=Testname&Address=123testdr (Notice the slashes, without the 3rd or the localhost parm it will never work) Evidently, there is no way to override this behavior and is considered a "feature". :doh:
Is Outlook struggling because your protocol ends with "file"? Maybe it thinks you're sending a
file://link.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer
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...and what do you get if you leave off the localhost or the third slash?
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Forogar wrote:
...and what do you get if you leave off the localhost or the third slash?
An error. (I can send it as plain text and it gets formatted as a link that works on the receiving end but it doesn't work well and often parses the link wrong. Also have tested link by typing it directly into safari and it works fine.) Microsoft seems to change any "//" to a "/" and any ":///" (add as many / as you like here) to "://". Just their way of being helpful.
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Is Outlook struggling because your protocol ends with "file"? Maybe it thinks you're sending a
file://link.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer
Richard Deeming wrote:
Is Outlook struggling because your protocol ends with "file"? Maybe it thinks you're sending a
file://link.Nope. After some investigation, it looks like microsoft has been behaving this way for over 10 years..Office XP modifies what you type: Peter Deegan in Woodyswatch[^]
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Working on a project using PDF forms and an iPad... wanted to transfer data to a local form through a hyperlink in an email... The link that will work is something like: pdfexfile:///templates/Packet10_14_13.pdf?Name_1=Testname&Address=123testdr or pdfexfile://localhost/templates/Packet10_14_13.pdf?Name_1=Testname&Address=123testdr Either hyperlink (when sent through outlook) ends up like: pdfexfile://templates/Packet10_14_13.pdf?Name_1=Testname&Address=123testdr (Notice the slashes, without the 3rd or the localhost parm it will never work) Evidently, there is no way to override this behavior and is considered a "feature". :doh:
I don't know if this will solve your issue, but it may be worth a try. Office XP: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/903876[^] Office 2003: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/900258[^] Office 2007; Use the key: HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\Common\AllowConsecutiveSlashesInUrlPathComponent [Dword] Value = 1 I don't have a new office version to test this on, but at least it prevented the "autocorrection" of the link in Word and Outlook editor.
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I don't know if this will solve your issue, but it may be worth a try. Office XP: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/903876[^] Office 2003: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/900258[^] Office 2007; Use the key: HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\Common\AllowConsecutiveSlashesInUrlPathComponent [Dword] Value = 1 I don't have a new office version to test this on, but at least it prevented the "autocorrection" of the link in Word and Outlook editor.
Thank You. I was not expecting a useful reply, I just had to vent. But your response is useful. Ya!! :-D
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I don't know if this will solve your issue, but it may be worth a try. Office XP: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/903876[^] Office 2003: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/900258[^] Office 2007; Use the key: HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\Common\AllowConsecutiveSlashesInUrlPathComponent [Dword] Value = 1 I don't have a new office version to test this on, but at least it prevented the "autocorrection" of the link in Word and Outlook editor.
Tested the hotfix.... doesn't seem to change the way outlook handles the hyperlink. X| Still, links were useful. It will give me a starting place if I decide to revisit this issue later. (Was just a 'would be nice' feature for the project I'm working on. It looked like it would be easy, should be easy but is not.)
