Re: Create a hyperlink to a webpage

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Hello Damo,

Inspired by Chris's suggestion I've been having a look at the frameset.js
file (which I'm assuming your reasonably ok with as you're looking in that
folder area already).

As Chris says there's an HTMLEscape function at the bottom of this file
which prevents the links from being links, however with a little editting
you can get the behaviour you're after:

Search the file for "if (oPropValue)" (there's only one instance of this)
and replace the following:

if (oPropValue)

{

strValueText = HTMLEscape (oPropValue.text);

}



.....with:

if (oPropValue)

{

if (String(oPropValue.text).charAt(0) == "s")

{

strValueText =
String(oPropValue.text).substring(1,(String(oPropValue.text).length));

}

else

{

strValueText = HTMLEscape (oPropValue.text);

}

}



You can then use the following link text in the shape***:

="s<a href='http://www.bbc.co.uk' target='_blank'>BBC</a>"

If you always use the same Save as web page settings then you can just
replace the frameset.js file with your editted version so at least you won't
javascripting each time. You may also want to choose a start character
other than "s" that will be unique within the Shape Data cells.

Anyway, hope that helps.

Best regards

John


John Goldsmith
www.visualSignals.co.uk

"Chris Roth [MVP]" <visioguy [at] hotmail [dot] com> wrote in message
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Hi Damo,

I tried to trick the Save As Web by putting html in the shape property,
ie:

Prop.Link = "<a href='http://www.visguy.com' title='Visio Guy'>Visio
Guy</a>"

but the export seems to be too clever and is escaping the link so that it
appears as text. I don't know if there are any cleverer ways to
"anti-escape" the property-text in order to fool the export. Kinda starts
to sound like a security risk at some point... : )

If your summer interns are still around, they might be able to massage the
Save As Web output with some sort of post-process utility that would make
your link a link again, but this is extra programming, and an extra step
in your publishing process...

Anybody else got any ideas?

--
Hope this helps,

Chris Roth
Visio MVP

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"Damo" <Damo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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We automatically convert our Organisation to html in Visio. If you
CTRL-Click on a shape you get to see the "properties" of that shape over
on
the left of the screen. One of the fields is currently text and we want
to
make it a hyperlink to a separate web page.

I can see where the text is stored after the html is created (a file
called
data.xml)

<Prop ID="6" Name="Link" NameU="Link">
<Value Unit="STR">http://www.webpage.com</Value>
<Label>Link</Label>
</Prop>

What I need is http://www.webpage.com to be an HTML hyperlink, but I
don't
need the shape to be a hyperlink.

Does anyone know how to do this?

Cheers




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