To DPS users, Having placed a URL into the web content overlay creator I get the following error Invalid URL for Web Content Overlay also trying to preview this in the desktop folio viewer get the following. An error has occurred while generating folio preview. [Error: Invalid URL for Web Content Overlay ] Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong when using the web content area of indesign. I read users need to manually type the URL into the web content file. Regards Vividi
Since the question wasn't really answered, with the greatest of respect to all of you, please HELP!
I got the same error message using an html 5 file created in edge-- placed into the container on my indesign page. The file works great in Safari, so I know the interactaction is working-- but, as soon as I hit 'preview' in the overlay creator, I get this exact same message.
Today, I gave up and decided to work around using image sequence. I have the files all ready in their own folder-- created a container on the indesign page, clicked overlay creator, typed in the exact path to the folder (so the program won't crash) and checked 'show first image.' At that point, the first image appeared. However, when I clicked on preview, I got the error message again.
ANY THOUGHTS??
Otherwise, I am a huge fan of DPS. I think we need shirts!
THANKS so much!
nancy p.
Hi, Bob,
Thanks for being so speedy!
Yes-- tried publishing it anyway. I'm attaching the error when I tried to do that. 
My links are all OK -- but is there any other asset folder that might be missing? I only know of 2 that I need: the inDesign folder and the folder where the photos are.
Am I missing something?
Thanks,
nancy
My html folder is in the same directory level as my articles. I do have 1 html 5 file that has been working from that location w/ overlay--in the viewer on my desktop and on the ipad. It was created as an animation in Indesign and converted with Wallaby. The Edge file stopped working yesterday--which I actually think is my fault--moving files around.
However, I'm more concerened with this "image sequence"problem. It should work. My image folder is on the same level as the article folder, which is also where my folders for photos/links are. I don't have a links folder. Should I?
Hope this isn't too lame. I sometimes skip over the early instructions to get to the fun stuff--and I've been having so much fun with the folio -- I haven't looked back!
Thanks so much!
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nancy
Bob,
Got it working!!!
Solution: deleting the second page of the file-- which had the OLD CODE from the edge file that gave me a problem yesterday.
When in doubt, I guess, just start fresh!
Course, I still am not sure about the 'folder' thing-- but everything is working just great right now.
THANKS SO MUCH!
nancy
To buglegirl101, not sure why this happens I also had problems with HTML 5 content created in edge, only thing I found was to create an HTML folder and included all the content inside the folder so indesign could find the HTML content and images files I used. I'm not sure if the overlay creator in indesign is still a little buggy also i find sometimes I needed to re-create a new container and import the HTML file again. Are you using any images within your edge HTML file and saving these in png format, I used a jpeg image at first but think it my have caused the HTML file to not view correctly on my ipad, the adobe content viewer did finally show my indesign content after previewing. Regards Vividi
Alistair,
do you mean the "Invalid Asset Location" Error Message?
this seams to be a strange computer depending bug, as Bob Bringhurst
mentioned here (comments below):
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/digitalpubsuite/using/WS9293e1fb3b977c5c73 657495129f66e490f-7ffa.html
—Johannes
Have come back to this again, and still the same problem...
just created an empty box, and pointing to an external URL - http://www.hrp.org.uk/toweroflondon/planyourvisit/gettinghere
so no files within the article etc, I now can't even upload the article
Any other thoughts??
Content generation error.
[Error: Invalid URL for Web Content Overlay]
Cheers
Alistair
OK.....
so deleting images one by one from all the article pages, lead me to two image boxes that, although did not have a web view associated with them, were causing the problem, very bizarre, and certainly in my eyes quite buggy, but there you go. As was previuosly mentioned, if in doubt start from scratch. At least by reporting these issues, others may find the solution a bit quicker.
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