error when clicking on hypertext links

[Matt Cotton]

I can paste content from web pages into OneNote OK. When I
try to access those links OneNote seems to be adding a
drive to the beginning of the link and therefore the link
fails. For example, if I have a link to
http://www.google.co.uk, when I click on the link in
OneNote I get an error saying "P:\http:\www.google.co.uk
contains an invalid path". P: happens to be a network
drive. If I remove this drive mapping then the link
resolves to c:\windows\http:\www.google.co.uk (which
obviously fails). It seems that OneNote is thinking that
it is a file link and adding a filesystem drive to it?

Any help much appreciated.

Matt.

 

[Chris H.]

Matt are you running OneNote SP1's version? There is much improved handling
of URLs. If you haven't downloaded the upgrade, you can find the
information and download here:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...48-26C9-43BB-9E7E-6151CF15D415&displaylang=en
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[Matt]

Yes. I've just started using OneNote and applied SP1
immediately. I'm also running on Win2003 Server.

I just did some more investigation. If I start OneNote
from the command line from it's home directory (i.e.
c:\program files\...) then that path is prepended to the
link when clicking. So it seems it isn't recognising the
http protocol and trying to access it as a file (adding
the current directory to the beginning).

Matt

 

[Chris H.]

Oh, Server 2003 may be your issue, Matt. I haven't tried running on Server
Enterprise Edition here, but the system requirements for OneNote are listed
as Microsoft Windows® 2000 with Service Pack 3 (SP3) or Windows XP
(including Media Center Edition and Tablet PC Edition supersets).
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[Matt]

OK. Thanks for that Chris. I guess the OneNote revolution
will just have to pass me by for the time being.

Matt

 

[Erik Sojka]

Just curious - why are you using a server-only OS (not
designed for daily interactive use) as your workstation
OS?

 

[Matt]

We develop a server based product and I spend most of my
time on the server OS.

Matt

 

[Peter Engrav \(MS, OneNote Dev Manager\)]

Hmm. It turns out that (for various reasons mostly related to development
requirements of the rest of the Office System) most of the OneNote dev team
run OneNote on Windows 2003 Server a good deal of the time. So something
more esoteric must be going on. Which of course is no great comfort. I'll
ask the team if anyone has any theories on the problem.

Peter Engrav (MS, OneNote Dev Manager)

 

[Chris H.]

Hmmm. Didn't know that. I was just going by the web site's listed system
requirements. Perhaps that should be modified?
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Chris H.
Microsoft Windows MVP/Tablet PC
Tablet Creations - http://nicecreations.us/
Associate Expert
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[Peter Engrav \(MS, OneNote Dev Manager\)]

"Official System Requirements" are a relatively heavyweight notion - that an
OS is on a product's published list implies a great deal about how much
product testing has been done on a variety of configurations, etc. That "a
bunch of the developers run that way and it seems to work for us" is clearly
far from the same level of assurance. Actually our testers would tell you
that software is more likely to work "just fine" on a developers machine
than anywhere else in the universe...

Peter