Reporting broken links

Is there a quick and easy mechanism to report broken links? A documentation link form help.sap.com doesn't work:
http://help.sap.com/businessobject/product_guides/PftPF/en/pf_usersguide_780c.pdf
Maybe I'm blind, but I just can't seem to find a "report a dead link" type of thing.

Hello Mark,
That website doesn't have any feedback mechanism I am aware of. Just a thought, but if you post this in the forum category most related to that topic, someone from Product Management in SAP might see it as they read the forums here and the documents posted on the help.sap.com portal are written by people in the Product Management org.
Best Regards,
David

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