Knowledge Base support case for AllWebMenus, abstracted and stripped of all user’s private info.
Initial Email From: Steve
Initial Email Subject: Menu attempts to link to local storage (site_root) address
Support Case Month: September 2012
I've made a change recently that now has menu items (in the horizontal top menu) referring to my local storage location, but I don't know what I've done.
Can you point me in the right direction?
Thanks in advance.
Steve
Reply From: Likno Customer Support
Dear Steve,
I checked your site but did not see such a problem! Did you correct the problem in the meantime?
If the problem is only in your pc, please note that several of your links are relative so if you see the menu in local pages it will point to other local pages (but online it will point to online pages).
Best Regards,
Kostas
Likno Customer Support
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Reply From: Steve
Thanks for your quick reply!
I did manually correct each of the menu links, as they contained references to the local site root, but it would be great if you could help me to understand my error in inadvertently putting them in. Could this have occurred in the compile function?
Thanks again for your great customer service and help with this issue.
Steve
Reply From: Likno Customer Support
Dear Steve,
When you say that you manually corrected the links, do you mean in the compiled file?
You should never directly edit the compiled file for two reasons:
1) it is very easy to do a mistake and render the menu fully unusable
2) every time you compile your menu, any changes you made will be lost and any error you “corrected” will reappear
If the problem was in the menu project (in the application) then this most likely occurred when you selected the link page.
If your “root folder” is in a different drive than the page you want to link, then the full path (including the drive letter) will be included.
Another thing that can produce “bad” links is if you move your whole site and change the site root (to a different drive). In this case if you select “update links” it will actually spoil them. If the whole site is moved then you should NOT choose to automatically update the links.
Best Regards,
Kostas
Likno Customer Support
www.likno.com
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