Anyone know why when editing or adding an external link, sometimes the Browse button shows up in the Edit Hyperlink dialog box, and sometimes it is grayed out?
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I am curious to know when you use the Browse button as it only browses files on your Mac.
You would then need to upload them independently.
David
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The other use for this is to link to pages created by another document. Let’s say you have two documents publishing into the same site folder on your Mac. If you wanted to link to one of the pages created by the Widgets document from within the Corporate document, you could use the Browse button to do so.
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On Apr 17, 2012, at 12:18 PM, DeltaDave wrote:
I am curious to know when you use the Browse button as it only browses files on your Mac.
You would then need to upload them independently.
David
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it’s for a client… he was using it to browse for PDF files on his Mac. I know he should have typically used the “Link to PDF” action instead, which is what I encouraged him to use, but he said this is how he did it and it worked for him before. He used to be able to use “Browse” to find his file, but now it’s grayed out.
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it worked for him before
But the PDF wouldn’t be included in the FW upload - or even placed in the Resources folder. It would still have to be manually uploaded.
It would work in FW preview or a local web preview but that is as far as it goes.
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So unless it manually in the Resource folder, it wouldn’t allow the Browse button to be active? How does Freeway know what link you want to use, to determine when the Browse button is active or not?
He’s linking the PDFs via his CSS Menu. He had a hard time working with the “Link to PDF” action within the CSS Menu, so he chose to link with a regular external link. The files supposedly were already on the server manually, but it’s possible the names got changed, so maybe that’s why he can’t browse for them?
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No - my point is that using the Browse button only allows you to link to local files (on your Mac). It doesn’t then make sure the files are uploaded.
If the files are actually on the server then using an external link is fine - if you know the correct URL.
How is he getting these PDFs onto the server?
If he uses an action like Upload Stuff (Page>PageActions>Upload Stuff) or Extra Resources (Item>Actions>Extra Resources) to get the files up to the server then using an external link is straightforward as you will know where the PDF is located.
I can’t explain why his Browse button is greyed out - my point was really ‘Why was he using the Browse Button at all’
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I think he manually put them on the server using Fetch.
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