Cannot open illegal or empty URLs

[Jop_Smith]

RH11 | WebHelp

I'm receiving the message "Cannot open illegal or empty URLs" when I open certain topics in one of my projects. I can click OK and the topics still open, but I'm unsure why this is happening.

Has anyone seen this before?

Thanks

Jonathan

[Willam_van_Weelden]

Any error in the developer console? Do you get the message as a popup or something else? Is there any custom script in those topics? Does it still occur after running Update DHTML effects in topics?

Kind regards,

Willam

[Jop_Smith]

The message appears as a popop message when I open topics in RoboHelp. Some of these topics are brand new as well. They only have a title. There's no custom script or URLs in them either.

[Captiv8r]

Hi there

Can you please share a screen capture of the properties of the hyperlink as well as what you are linking to?

Cheers... Rick

[Jop_Smith]

Here you go.

I'm using a variable in both the topic title and page title, but I've recreated the topic without this and it's just the same.

Cheers

Jonathan

[Captiv8r]

Okay, I note that you are using a variable in the properties. While that shouldn't cause issues, does the problem disappear if you remove the variable reference?

Also, what have you done with the variable? Is the variable content possibly an empty link?

Cheers... Rick

[Captiv8r]

Sorry, just re-read the bit about it happening to topics without variables.

If you created a totally new project or opened one of the sample projects, does the same thing happen? If it does, it might mean you need to reinstall RoboHelp, as it sounds like something related to your installation.

If it doesn't happen with the other project(s), it means this particular project has issues.

Cheers... Rick

[Jop_Smith]

Hi Rick

I've tried this in one of the sample projects and it doesn't happen, so I can only assume that it's an issue with this project. This project is a copy of an existing project, which I disconnected from RoboSource Control, so I'm wondering if that is causing it? I took a copy and disconnected it by deleting the .cpd and .pss files, and then removing the <miscproperties> entry (but leaving the closing </miscproperties> tag) in the .xpj file. I've done this many times and never had a problem though.

Cheers

Jonathan

[Peter Grainge]

Quite a few times I have seen people send me a project stating it has been removed from source control but when I open it, the project throws an error. Once that has been cleared, the project behaves.

If you have Rh on a non network machine, try that. If not, send it to me and I will open it here to see what happens.

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@petergrainge

[Jop_Smith]

Okay Peter, I've sent it through to you.

Let me know how it behaves for you.

Thanks

Jonathan

[Peter Grainge · Accepted solution]

It is this line in your table that is causing the problem.

<td style="background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; border-bottom: Solid 1px #eee; background-image: url(#f8f8f8);"background="#f8f8f8" bgcolor="#F8F8F8">&#160;</td>

Set it to the same as other shaded rows and it works fine.

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@petergrainge

[Jop_Smith]

Well spotted and thanks!