Absolute links

I'm loading certain pages from my site to a third party vendor's site as html templates which visitors will access via the c-name.
They require absolute links throughout.
a) is there a preference or hack that makes all my links absolute in MUSE
b) is there an easy way to do this globally instead of find and replace?
thanks!

Hi Christopher,
At this stage this is not possible to force muse to generate absolute links. I will recommend that you use some script on-load that changes all the links to the absolute paths in stead of manual find and replace.
- Abhishek Maurya

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The easiest, and most efficient, way is to replicate the folder environment onto your local machine (all folders and files exactly as they will appear in the destination area), and let RH do the heavy lifting.
Therefore, to link to anything outside the current RH project, the method is:
Select Link to: File in the Hyperlink dialog.
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Click OK.
Now, double click the link to reopen the Hyperlink dialog; RH has magically transformed the link into a relative path.
(You'll get an info message about linking to an external file...when you initially create the link and every time you open it...just ignore it.)
We use this method in a 42-project merged project, and it's never failed us. The only time that your links will break is when you copy or move a file to another location. Since the relative paths are no longer valid, RH will automatically assign the links to within the current topic; you'll need to re-assign the link manually.
Good luck,
Leon

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It is also being appended with: %E2%80%9D (which, when tested from a Word page, leads to site but generates page not found error).
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i can understand that but i am not making this so it picks different .as files during run-time.
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Yes I did.
The most frustrating page is actuallym y links page. All links work apart from one? AND, when I test my page in the browser it all works fine - just when it's publised does it go pear chaped?
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I'm building an application that has numerous folders with
the same element in each folder. i.e. header.jpg. The elements
change from folder to folder, but their position in the folder is
the same, so /images/header.jpg is consistent throughout.
I'm building a site using dreamweaver templates, and want it
to print precisely that line, but whenever I build a template, it
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<img src="@@('whatever.jpg')@@"....
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with the same
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> each folder. i.e. header.jpg. The elements change from
folder to folder,
> but
> their position in the folder is the same, so
/images/header.jpg is
> consistent
> throughout.
>
> I'm building a site using dreamweaver templates, and
want it to print
> precisely that line, but whenever I build a template, it
creates a
> relative
> link. Is there a way to force dreamweaver to leave that
link alone?
>
> Thanks,
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http://www.adobe.com/images/sampleimage.jpg)
in Dreamweaver.
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HTML emails need absolute paths. I've read that Contribute
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HELP!?!?!?!
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Rodney

How will you send the emails? Will you use an email-client on
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$strMessageStrip3 = str_replace("../images/", "
http://www.yourdomain.com/images/",
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2) how to reliably automate the change of several hundred legacy root-relative links of the form
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      Link check in DW: good
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      Browser: good
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Absolute link
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      Design veiw in DW: broken (grey w/ broken icon)
      Link check in DW: external (i.e., uncheckable, + file could appear orphaned)
      Browser: good
      Ease of switching: n/a...not a real option
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Hello again Jon!
Thanks for jumping on this.
All clear and understood about where publc_html is etc.
No contemplation of nuking the actual public_html directory on the server, just the "/public_html" text string at the start of the DW-generated links.
"/public_html" is automatically added to the front of the link in DW if I create the link with any of the GUI tools, if I have "site root relative" selected. And ""/public_html" ends up in the code, and gets uploaded that way to the server, where it (obviously) doesn't work.
Doesn't sound like it is supposed to work this way. Also, what seems to be the usual root relative format (/images/image.jpg) shows as a broken link in the GUI and an external link in the DW link check. All this togther makes me thinkI have some obscure setting incorrect?
The setting that caught my eye is manage sites/ site setup/ advance settings/ local info/ web url, which is automatically set to http://www.oasisdesign.net/public_html/
it gives an option to change it but it makes every effort to make this NOT look like something users should mess with:
Having gone through the more careful thought process during this post, I'm ready to do the experiment of changing the remote server web URL (why is it wrong by default?)...think I'll eat dinner first so there's 45 min to avert disaster if anyone knows this to be a bad idea!
Art
PS--don't have a local testing server...don't think this will solve the GUI broken link/ link shows as external problems.
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Hi everyone,
I really hope someone can help me with this problem. I work for a software company and we have a release coming up. Every release requires me to create a 'menu' which is what users see when they insert the release CD. I create this menu in Adobe Acrobat Professional, and add links to all the PDF manuals we have for our products. When I open the Menu in Acrobat Professional, all links open fine. When just attempting to open the links using the default Adobe Reader (which i'm guessing most of our customers will use), nothing happens, not even an error is generated. I'm ensuring I link to the documents that reside in the same folder on my directory as the menu. Is this something to do with relative/absolute links? Something to do with Reader XI, as I don't remember having this problem for our last release? Foxit also seems to work in opening the links.
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