2 simple questions

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  1. How do you delete a link in the external hyperlinks. Somehow a link duplicated itself and added “%20” to the end.
    Even though I choose the original for hyperlink, it defaults to the non-existent file upon clicking.

  2. Can you change a page’s url to shorten.

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Glenn

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Found answer to #1, edit URLs worked.

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  1. not from within FW as far as I’m aware. There may be an alternative service somewhere.

Nathan Garner

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On 15 Nov 2010, at 19:58, Earthcat wrote:

  1. How do you delete a link in the external hyperlinks. Somehow a link duplicated itself and added “%20” to the end.
    Even though I choose the original for hyperlink, it defaults to the non-existent file upon clicking.

  2. Can you change a page’s url to shorten.

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You can’t shorten the URL directly from within Freeway but you can use one of the many URL shortening services out on the web and paste this into the Hyperlink dialog box.
TinyURL (http://tinyurl.com/) for example offers a way to shorten any links without even visiting their site via their API. In fact here is a quick and dirty Action that uses their API to shorten links in Freeway;
http://www.freewayactions.com/test/tiny-url/
Enjoy!
Regards,
Tim.

On 15 Nov 2010, at 19:58, Earthcat wrote:

  1. Can you change a page’s url to shorten.

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So the Freeway generated url cannot be changed at all within Freeway?

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Do you mean ‘shortened’ within FW or do you mean what FW puts in the File Name box of the Page Inspector

Shortened - no but the filename - yes

If you put in a page title of my_home_page then FW will create the filename my_home_page.html UNLESS it is the first page you create within the Site Folder or a subfolder which FW will automatically name index.html

If you have used the Title myverylonghomepagename then FW will shorten this to 21 characters by default (can be changed in Document Setup) which would give you myverylonghomepa.html

If you have several pages called ‘myproducts’ then FW will call them myproductsa.html, myproductsb.html etc.

If you want to change the filename then click in the Filename box and type your new name eg garden_products.html and then use the Enter key to get it to ‘stick’

Any page’s Filename can be changed in this way.

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OK, figured it out. I was getting these extended urls with 20% this and that. I have many pdf pages that I placed in folders within the site documents list. I pulled all the pages out of the folders and that did the trick. I guess the question now is…Is there a way to group or divide pages in that side list/menu for easier access without effecting the urls in this way?

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The %20 comes from having spaces in the file path – either the filename itself or one of the folder names. Replace these with underscores or dashes and you should be good.

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It is ALWAYS important to never use spaces for linked to files or web pages or else you’ll always get that %20 which is the equivalent of a space.

You could use one of the many free tools to rename files ahead of time for you. I use “A Better Finder Renamer” but I have seen others.

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