Adobe Portfolio - Internal pages not loading

Hi Nancy!

I'm not doing any kind of manual insertions for the link. I'm just using what is built into the Adobe Portfolio software. So when I insert an image onto a page, I can then hover over the image to get a sub menu that gives me the ability to "Add a Link" (shown below as edit a link since the screenshot is from an existing image) for when the image is clicked.

When I choose that, I get another menu where I can select internal and external pages to link to. So I choose an internal link to an existing page which only provides me with a drop down of the pages I have created inside of Adobe Portfolio and asks me which page (by page title) I want the image to link to.

I select it and that's where it ends. I "assume" Adobe takes that title, makes it lower case and then adds hypens for spaces to create the actual link. 

My assumption is based on this: I can only create the page title when building a new page. I can then only select the page from a drop down to link to so there is no manual (I'm not acutally coding) input on my side to insert the link. Portfolio just does it for me.

If I go to "pages" in the menu system (where I can see all my pages in a list view) I have the ability to look at the settings for each page inlcuding "Edit Page URL". This is the only place I can see where I "could" manipulate the actual URL for an internal page.

So, when I click that, the url for the page is displayed. In this case, "behind-you". It's just the default. Again, I'm assuming the software does this behind the scenes.

Now I have gone in and fooled with editing the url while trying to troubleshoot, but the default value that was put in there by the software was "behind-you". I didn't put that in there.

**I have several different types of galleries in my portfolio. All but one of them utilize the lightbox feature so that when someone clicks on an image, it comes up in the lightbox slider and never leaves the page. Those all work perfectly. This one page I'm having trouble with is for composites and need to be handled a little differently.**

Here is the scenario I have:

I have one page in my portfolio for composite images. That page is made up of basically thumbnails of all the different composites I want to show the end user. This page is just a 2 column grid of images. Basically 10 thumbnails of what the final composite images looks like. 

Then I built a supporting page for each composite image (so 10 separate internal pages). Each of these pages shows the final composite image (larger) along with all the supporting images that were used to make the final composite. This is why I'm not using the lightbox in this particular scenario. I want the main composite page to show just the final result images as thumbnails and then the end user clicks on a thumbnail to launch the supporting page that has more detail about the image including all the supporting images that were used to create the composite.

Does that make sense?

And as I've said before, when I'm in portfolio edit mode, all the links work exactly how I intended. I click a composite thumbnail and it loads the supporting composite page. It's only when I publish it, it breaks.

Publish is for some reason stripping out the href. I can see it in the inspector. It's there in edit mode, gone in publish.

Edit mode inspector (href looks like it should):

Published inspector of same image link (href is malformed, or doesn't exist):

I hope that helps. Sorry for the long post, just trying to get the details out there. Any help is appreciated becasue all it does right now is reload the same composite thumbnail page and looks like I don't know what I'm doing... Maybe I don't...lol.

Yeah, I've tried that as well as multiple browsers and devices. For some reason it's stripping the actual href link when I publish. Again, works perfect in the editor..., publish..., broken.