Creating absolute links instead of relative

[GoPenguins]

I am using RoboHelp 7 HTML Web Help.  From what I understand, any time you create links in RoboHelp, the RoboHelp editor should create them in a "relative" manner, which is what I want and which is what used to happen.  But now it is creating them in an absolute manner.  I don't know how it changed or how to get it back to creating the links in the relative manner.

[Captiv8r]

Hi there

What are you seeing that is leading you to believe the links are absolute? Can you provide a screen shot or describe it?

Cheers... Rick

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[GoPenguins]

Hi Rick,

When I create the link by dragging and dropping or by using the Hyperlink icon, the full path shows in the Hyperlink dialog box and in the IE Status Bar.

I can manually delete the path, and then everything is okay.

I'd like to not have to manually delete the path.  I've been doing things the same way for a long time, and I can't figure out what would have changed.

Thanks,

Ray

[Peter Grainge]

When creating the link it does show as absolute. Click OK and then reopen the dialog, hey presto, it is relative. It's been that way for a long time.

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@petergrainge

[GoPenguins]

Thanks for the reply, but it doesn't work that way for me.  When I reopen the dialog, it is still absolute and I have to manually delete the path.

[Peter Grainge]

Are you sure you are linking to something inside the project? That's the only time I can think of that it does not work that way and I can't believe RoboHelp is singling you out on this.

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[GoPenguins]

I am definitely linking to something inside the project. Maybe those paranoid thoughts of mine are real ;o)

One odd thing that happens - When I drag & drop to create the link, it starts out as file://\\   but if I go into the Hyperlink dialog box and hit OK , it changes to file:/

[Peter Grainge]

Drag from and to where? Exactly how are you creating the link?

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[GoPenguins]

I drag from the Project Manager to the document in the main frame.

If I use the Insert Hyperlink dialog box, it still creates an absolute link.

[Peter Grainge]

I want to be 100% sure here.

• If you use Insert Hyperlink you get the absolute path. Even if you OK that without making any changes, when you open the hyperlink dialog, it is still the absolute path.
  
  
• If you drag the file from Project Manager you also get the absolute path. It starts with //\\ and converts to just // but still shows the absolute path.

Your project is on your C drive. What is the full path to the project?

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