Hyperlink (weblinks and UNC-links to files)
Think of links (Hyperlinks - active one's!) in Business partners to their web pages (not just the filed available with the need to 'copy and paste' to the browser - to me this seems like going to use a typewriter to write letters).
Think of links in Items or BOM's to documents and specifications to a already set up file structure on a documentation server. Nobody I know wants to have all these documents copied to a 'one level flat' file structure like B1 does. This leads to a completely unstructured and unusable File structure on the file server. It is just nonsense to believe that the access to these files always happens through B1 and the structure behind is a 'don't care'.
I just want to store the link to the web adress or document (UNC path or with mapped drive) without copying the document to a second place and linking/opening the document from its original place.
Please add this in as soon as possible. I assume its a small change to add a new UDF version based on the current one that copies the file. The rest can stay the same as with the current UDF for links.
Franz
This is must-have feature for any application.
It's hard to imagine that we cannot create any hyperlink in an ERP system. Can't believe this important feature is still missing after about almost three years.
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Good afternoon
My indesign product catalog has links with a lot of different folders around in my hard disk, not a single folder. And to keep my catalog up to date I must package it.
When I move my linked files in my computer because I change the folder structure or do some cleaning, my indd loses track of its linked files. Currently I need to relink one by one.
Therefore I would like to find a script which would scan the hard disk with the all broken links in mind to detect their new location and relink. Yes I am a lazy person.
Thanks for any clue,Thanks so much! I will try soonest.
How does your script react in the unlikely case of duplicates?
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:43:47 -0600
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Script to search and relink linked image files that were moved?
At least your honest about your laziness.... Here's your reward:
Just a hint, don't select root of your volume, it will loop through every folder in existence, but key to this script is, if you know the general location, select into that folder hierarchy and the script will test for a relative path, otherwise, come back in a few days, and it will be finished.
~mike
var processed = 0
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http://help.adobe.com/en_US/acrobat/pro/using/WS40A4853E-0D48-46a6-8AB6-6B9A27A22D83.html
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