OneNote 2007 Beta - Hyperlink to Word

[sshimer]

I have created some hyperlinks to Word documents that appear to work fine,
except when I go to save the word document I get a message saying it is in
"read-only" mode. I am not sure why word is opening the document in
read-only mode? The file is not open in any other application.

 

[Grant Robertson]

I have created some hyperlinks to Word documents that appear to work fine,
except when I go to save the word document I get a message saying it is in
"read-only" mode. I am not sure why word is opening the document in
read-only mode? The file is not open in any other application.

What type of links are they? Icon-links or text-links? Please search past
posts on this topic using these words and my name. I have already
discussed it extensively.

 

[sshimer]

Thanks for your feedback and I did search past posts, but did not find a
response to my question (or did not understand they were asking the same
question). I created a text link using the browse functionality in OneNote
where you:

Select the Text
Right click and select "Add hyperlink"
Browse for the location of the document and select it.
Click Ok

I did read through some of the message string regarding Linking in OneNote,
but it seemed to be discussing linking within OneNote and then went in to a
discussion about selective pasting from the clipboard.

 

[Grant Robertson]

Thanks for your feedback and I did search past posts, but did not find a
response to my question (or did not understand they were asking the same
question). I created a text link using the browse functionality in OneNote
where you:

Select the Text
Right click and select "Add hyperlink"
Browse for the location of the document and select it.
Click Ok

OK, so you are using what I call "text-linking" as opposed to "icon-
linking". The significance is that "text-links" open the actual original
document from wherever it may have been located when you created the
link. OneNote doesn't do any of its weirdness of reconstructing a copy of
the file from the cache into a temp folder and editing that, as it does
with "icon-linked" documents.

From what I know so far, I don't think OneNote 2007 opens these files any
differently from when any other program or web browser opens files linked
to in this manner. However, we can try an experiment:

Open Word. Type some text. Select it. Right-click and choose hyperlink.
Browse to the same file. Select it and create the hyperlink. Now ctrl-
click on that hyper link to open the other document. Modify something and
see if you can save the file.

Also, just check the attributes of the file itself. Make sure it wasn't
read-only to begin with.

Another thing you can try is text-linking to some other file from some
other place that you know you can edit and save.

Just to be sure I checked how it worked on my computer. It works just
fine and does not set anything to read only. So it is not necessarily a
problem with all OneNote 2007 installations.

 

[sshimer]

Again, thanks for the feedback. I have been doing some testing and found
that the error is not OneNote specific. The same thing happens when I create
a hyperlink for test in Outlook as well. In addition, it only seems to
happen when the word document resides on a network drive. When the file is
local, all seems to work well. The error does not occur when opening Visio,
Powerpoint, or Excel files on a network drive.

To summarize: Hyperlinks assigned to text strings that point to word
documents that reside on a network drive cause the document to open in
"read-only" mode when the hyperlink is executed. Further, the title bar in
Word does not display "Read-only", the mode is not discovered until the user
attempts to save the document and the "read-only" error message is displayed.
Further, the document properties do not reflect the "read-only" status.

I think MS has a bug! To double check, I am having another group at our
company test the problem. Thanks again for your thoughts.

 

[Rainald Taesler]

sshimer shared these words of wisdom:

I think MS has a bug! To double check, I am having another
group at our company test the problem.

Will you pls keep us posted on the results?

TIA
Rainald