Help with CAD Manual Please!

[stevelander]

Apologies, I've posted this in the customisation area but not had much response so I thought I'd give it a go here.

I'm making our new CAD Manual available from one of our customized pull down menus. The manual is written in htm format and I have various sections 'Bookmarked' within the file. I'm using the syntax:

browser
"Z:\CAD\CadManual\CadManual-3.0.htm"

to open the file which works fine, but is there a way I can point it to a specific 'Bookmark' or point within the file?

Thanks very much for your help,

Steve.

[Anonymous]

stevelander said the following On 4/10/2007 4:20 AM:
>
> browser
> "Z:\CAD\CadManual\CadManual-3.0.htm"
>
> to open the file which works fine, but is there a way I can point it to a specific 'Bookmark' or point within the file?

How about "Z:\CAD\CadManual\CadManual-3.0.htm#bookmark1"

If you are not sure how that works, check out the "A" tag and the NAME
attribute, in the HTML reference.
http://vzone.virgin.net/sizzling.jalfrezi/frames/fa.htm



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R.K. McSwain
http://rkmcswain.blogspot.com

[stevelander]

Thanks very much for that, I'll have a play round with it.

Steve.

[Anonymous]

Its called a "fragment identifier" which is the search term you'll use to
search the web for more complete information. They are also called "jump
tags" by amateurs. This Wikipedia entry [1] is fairly comprehensive...

<%= Clinton Gallagher
NET csgallagher AT metromilwaukee.com
URL http://clintongallagher.metromilwaukee.com/

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fragment_identifier


wrote in message news:5547056@discussion.autodesk.com...
Thanks very much for that, I'll have a play round with it.

Steve.

[stevelander]

Thanks very much for your input guys but I'm still having real problems with this. I'm using the syntax

browser
"Z:\CAD\CadManual\CadManual-3.0.htm#Layers"

which opens the file CadManual-3.0.htm, but will not move to the bookmark 'Layers'. The web address bar displays the syntax as above but without '#Layers'. When I add this to the end it moves to the bookmark 'Layers'. It seems that AutoCAD is not abled to transfer the very end of the syntax.

I've also tried using Href from one of the links but this does not work either. Using this method the full syntax is held however additional coding at the front appears in the web browser and the file cannot be found.

I've tried just about every variation I can find but nothing. Any help would be great.

Thanks,

Steve.

[Anonymous]

Read this MSDN documentation [1] and then try this...

file:///z:/cad/cadmanual/cadmanual-3.0.htm#layers

Note the HTML source in the targeted cadmanual-3.0.htm file must be
correctly stated at minimum as...
...


Furthermore, I don't like using the HTTP protocol file handler. Its still
supported but drive letter assignments change too often causing failures and
downtime.

You should be using a local application server such as IIS or Apache as the
case may be. Store your web files in a location supported by your
application server, e.g. "web server." On Windows by default that file path
by default is c:\inetpub\wwwroot noting you can also configure IIS to load
your "pages" from a virtual directory which may be located on Z: but again,
that's often problematic for reasons noted. For most of us we should be
using the the default web and the default file path and you can use HTTP to
send and request files from anywhere on your network

The ideal way to request the CAD Manual should use the HTTP protocol
handler...

// where xp1 is the computer name where the application server is running
http://xp1/cadmanual-3.0.htm#layers

Be advised, there is no special support required for fragment identifiers.
All browsers will parse a URI composed with a fragment identifier (as long
as the requesting and target source code is well formed). Autodesk products
embed the IE browser control (the IE browser with no graphic user interface)



<%= Clinton Gallagher
NET csgallagher AT metromilwaukee.com
URL http://clintongallagher.metromilwaukee.com/

[1]
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/workshop/networking/predefined/file.asp


wrote in message news:5548186@discussion.autodesk.com...
Thanks very much for your input guys but I'm still having real problems with
this. I'm using the syntax

browser
"Z:\CAD\CadManual\CadManual-3.0.htm#Layers"

which opens the file CadManual-3.0.htm, but will not move to the bookmark
'Layers'. The web address bar displays the syntax as above but without
'#Layers'. When I add this to the end it moves to the bookmark 'Layers'. It
seems that AutoCAD is not abled to transfer the very end of the syntax.

I've also tried using Href from one of the links but this does not work
either. Using this method the full syntax is held however additional coding
at the front appears in the web browser and the file cannot be found.

I've tried just about every variation I can find but nothing. Any help would
be great.

Thanks,

Steve.

Message was edited by: Discussion Admin

[stevelander]

Clinton,

Thanks very much for taking the time to give me such a good explanation. It's really appreciated. I'll take a look at your suggestions and let you know how I get on.

It's a shame the discussion police got involved though.

Cheers,

Steve.