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This thread
http://forums.adobe.com/message/1921550
contains references to UNC paths. In the web forum, these get translated to
links with href=#, and when the post arrives as an email, all the message
contains is the '#' and not the '\ \server \ share' I would have expected to
see. Could someone please ask the powers that be to rectify this?
Noel
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I'm not sure what you are looking for the links to do. In the webforum they appear as hyperlinks, but they are links to the discussion.
Is the problem with the forum convertingi the UNC paths to links to the discussion? Or is the problem with the email notification? I'm assuming that it is the second, but want to be clear before I report it.
Thanks!
John
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Thanks, John. Two things: I can't see why a UNC path should ever be converted
to a link in the forum, especially if all the link does is to scoot you back
to the top of the discussion. And, having been converted, when the post
arrives as an email, the interesting bit - now between a and /a tags - gets
dropped in favour of whatever href contains, which is just a bookmark '#'.
This makes the post itself almost unintelligible.
Noel
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Another one this morning: the email notification of
http://forums.adobe.com/message/1922776#1922776
reads
...In addition I have changed the network name from
to # which means that the files are now offline...
Noel
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Bu**er! The blockquote above was supposed to read " ...changed the network name from # to # which means...". The first '#' got changed to
</p><ol start="1"><li type="ol"><p>...
Please can we have a sticky list of functions that convert characters in plain text email posts to HTML tags?
Noel
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Ildhund wrote:
Please can we have a sticky list of functions that convert characters in plain text email posts to HTML tags?
Echo (sort of😞
Please can we have a sticky list of functions that convert characters in plain text email posts to Jive Markup tags?
Please include the list of character strings that are not allowed (or that produce blank emails), such as 5 consecutive dashes, lines ending in wrote:, etc...
I do understand that much of that is still getting ironed out, so maybe the "Sticky" could wait until then, but it would be helpful.
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Please can we have a sticky list of functions that convert characters in
plain text email posts to Jive Markup tags?
Please include the list of character strings that are not allowed (or that
produce blank emails), such as 5 consecutive dashes, lines ending in wrote:,
etc...
Thanks for clarifying, Mark. And, while we're at it, could we also have a
run-down on how to interpret odd things in email notifications like the '#' in
my OP, something along the lines of 'If you see an unexplained '#' in a
notification, it might represent
(a) a UNC path that has been converted to a link
(b) ...
Until they stop doing it, that is.
Noel
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This might be browser-specific, or another issue with IE.
I'm in Firefox right now and will try to create the links:
\\oldserver\pictures
\\newserver\pictures
John
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Adding another reply to test email.
John
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John:
This might be browser-specific, or another issue with IE.
I'm in Firefox right now and will try to create the links:
oldserver\pictures
newserver\pictures
Another thing - this post hasn't shown up in the 'forum comments - all
content' feed (in IE7), whereas your other two (from IE and email) did appear.
Can you explain that?
Noel
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When you say 'hasn't shown up in the feed" are you referring to the email notifications? Or to RSS Feeds?
I'm not subscribed via RSS, but I have noticed that my messages posted by Adobe Admin have not come in yet via email. So I will add that to the support ticket where we're trying to figure this issue out.
But now that I do have an email to reply to, I'll try it here (via Outlook)...
oldserver\photos
newserver\photos
And I can see that they have turned to links in the email client before sending.
Thanks!
John
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Whereas in post #8 they show up as null links.
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Not sure what you mean by "Null Links"
For me, the links in #8 refer to this thread. If I click on them I get taken to the top of the page. Sort of like it is trying to create an incomplete anchor link. I'm in FireFox 3.0.10 where I'm seeing that.
John
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Sorry, that's what I meant. A trick, which probably shouldn't be so widely used, in order to attach a javascript action to a link is to make the link go to '#', which is what your links go to. In other posts those chunks of text do not appear as links at all.
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With IE you get a link on the web but just a '#' in the email.
That's what shows up in the forum in post #8 - IE6. An apparent link, but pointing to #
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Just to add to the confusion, I'm currently using Safari
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John:
When you say 'hasn't shown up in the feed" are you referring to the email
notifications? Or to RSS Feeds?
It doesn't figure in the RSS feed. Looking a bit more closely, I see that of
the 20 replies to this thread (as of now), only eight show up in the feed
http://forums.adobe.com/community/feeds/allcontent?community=3384 when viewed
in IE7. It would take a bit of research to find out what the eight have in
common, or the missing 12. But it does mean that one can't use the feed as a
reliable way of following a discussion.
Now this has gone OT, we'd better start a new thread about it.
Noel
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John:
(via Outlook)...
oldserver\photos
newserver\photos
Another variant, this time missing the initial two backslashes in the email.
Noel
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The issue does seem to be Microsoft related. In Outlook while typing the UNC names Outlook converted them to links in the message. But somewhere along the line the leading slashes were dropped.
I'm not quite sure that the two issues (UNC path names and lack of feeds/emails) are not related. It looks like the common item in my messages that didn't come through rss/email were the ones where I typed a path name in. I think those were all posted by the Adobe-Admin account. So I'll try another reply after this one from this account with the path names and see if that gets through.
John
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\\pathname\folder
Let me know if this comes through in email or RSS
John
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That kills that theory. I got that email notification within seconds, before I had time to send the other reply (which was already queued up in another browser).
And the email did NOT have a # in it. Here is what the email looked like:
The link is clickable, but gives an error that the path cannot be found (expected).
John
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Could the text in the link have anything to do with it? I did use a different path this time. I'll try the old olderver/newserver ones again and see if that throughs off the email delivery...
\\oldserver\photos
\\newserver\photos
John
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That came through email fine. Sending this reply via email
John
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