A
Amileoj
I have run into a problem with the hyperlinks between the pages of my Visio
2003 drawing not working, when publishing (saving) that drawing as a Web
page. The problem does not exactly match any of the other threads that
turned up here on the search topic "hyperlinks", and a lengthy Google search
has not been any help either.
Here is the background:
I created all the hyperlinks in this drawing by using Insert/Hyperlinks
(Cntrl+K) on various shapes, with the local file name (the drawing's .vsd
file) in the Address field, the appropriate page name in the Sub-address
field, and the "Use relative path..." checkbox checked. All links go to a
different page than the one they are on. When saving the drawing as a Web
page, I configure the publishing options for JPEG output.
All this worked well for weeks, as the drawing grew to approximately 120
pages, with me republishing it as a Web page several times a day. But when I
recently added another page to the drawing, and attempted to republish,
something changed:
Now all of the links in the image maps, in the generated .htm pages, are
broken. Specifically, they all now have URLs of the form:
filename.vsd#n
where "filename" is the name of the Visio drawing file, and where "n" is the
page name (or sub-address). These links go nowhere, and so result in a 'not
found' error in both IE and Firefox. Since I still have archived copies of
the results of some previous publishes, I can see that the image map links in
their generated HTML used to have the form:
jpeg_n.htm
where "n" is again the sub-address for the page. I also noticed in
comparing the old and new image maps that whereas the links in them formerly
used target="frmDrawing" they now all have target="_top".
I did try removing the most-recently-added drawing and republishing, but the
links still have the new (and non-working) format.
One last wrinkle: all of the pages in this drawing are backgrounds rather
than foregrounds, and most of them use another page in the drawing as a
background, and so on recursively. Thus, the "page order" list (that comes
up when one tries to Reorder Pages) is blank. I do things this way because
it makes updating a large drawing easier, when a great many visual elements
are shared across its pages (as in the case of an interactive GUI prototype).
That's about it. I hope someone can help with this, as the project I was
working on is pretty much dead in the water until I can find a solution.
Thanks.
2003 drawing not working, when publishing (saving) that drawing as a Web
page. The problem does not exactly match any of the other threads that
turned up here on the search topic "hyperlinks", and a lengthy Google search
has not been any help either.
Here is the background:
I created all the hyperlinks in this drawing by using Insert/Hyperlinks
(Cntrl+K) on various shapes, with the local file name (the drawing's .vsd
file) in the Address field, the appropriate page name in the Sub-address
field, and the "Use relative path..." checkbox checked. All links go to a
different page than the one they are on. When saving the drawing as a Web
page, I configure the publishing options for JPEG output.
All this worked well for weeks, as the drawing grew to approximately 120
pages, with me republishing it as a Web page several times a day. But when I
recently added another page to the drawing, and attempted to republish,
something changed:
Now all of the links in the image maps, in the generated .htm pages, are
broken. Specifically, they all now have URLs of the form:
filename.vsd#n
where "filename" is the name of the Visio drawing file, and where "n" is the
page name (or sub-address). These links go nowhere, and so result in a 'not
found' error in both IE and Firefox. Since I still have archived copies of
the results of some previous publishes, I can see that the image map links in
their generated HTML used to have the form:
jpeg_n.htm
where "n" is again the sub-address for the page. I also noticed in
comparing the old and new image maps that whereas the links in them formerly
used target="frmDrawing" they now all have target="_top".
I did try removing the most-recently-added drawing and republishing, but the
links still have the new (and non-working) format.
One last wrinkle: all of the pages in this drawing are backgrounds rather
than foregrounds, and most of them use another page in the drawing as a
background, and so on recursively. Thus, the "page order" list (that comes
up when one tries to Reorder Pages) is blank. I do things this way because
it makes updating a large drawing easier, when a great many visual elements
are shared across its pages (as in the case of an interactive GUI prototype).
That's about it. I hope someone can help with this, as the project I was
working on is pretty much dead in the water until I can find a solution.
Thanks.