Vision links not working on 2 machine

[tshad]

We have some flows that we turned into HTML and put on our intranet.

We have various boxes set up as hyperlinks.

The problem is that in IE there are 2 machines that the hyperlinks don't
work on (both XP machines, one is a laptop).

All the other machines in our office work fine.

What would cause the hyperlinks not to work on the various machines? These
are typically PDFs.

Thanks,

Tom

 

[Chris Roth [MVP]]

Two things come to mind:

1. You can set links as using "relative paths" when you create the link in
Visio (ie: ..\othersub\target.htm ). But if your links have absolute paths
(ie: D:\mystuff\othersub\target.htm), it's unlikely that the pages would
work on ANY other machines, unless you all structure your directories
exactly the same.

2. There have been some problems with links -- that have been mentioned
several times in this forum -- but the problems are inconsistent, and it's
not clear exactly what's going wrong. At least your not alone, but I have no
advice if you are hitting "this problem", whatever it may be! : (


--
Hope this helps,

Chris Roth
Visio MVP

www.wanderkind.com/visio

 

[tshad]

Nice to know that I am not the only one.

As you say, since they work on all the other machines, the paths should be
the problem.

The viewsource gives me the following line (on all machine including the
offending one).

<v:shape type="#VISSHAPE" href="#"
origHref="http://intranet.ft.com/corptraining/processflowcharts/pdf forms/lateinputscript.pdf"
tabindex="1" title="Client Called" origTitle="Client Called"
style="top:-1000;left:-1000;width:1581;height:2000;position:absolute" path="
m -193,-178 l 6,-178 l 6,-228 l -193,-228 l -193,-178xe"
onmouseover="UpdateTooltip(this,0,30)" onclick="OnShapeClick(0,30)"
onfocus="UpdateTooltip(this,0,30);" onkeyup="OnShapeKey(0,30)"/>

Thanks,

Tom