A user logged on to a web site on an intranet from his local machine. The web site contains many links to excel spreadsheets on the network. The hyperlinks to these excel files use absolute paths. i.e //server name/directory name/ excel file name. He then logged on to another machine and all the links had changed to use the drive letter that he had mapped to that same directory on the first machine. i.e G:\excel file name. Of course, none of the links worked because the second machine didn't have the G drive mapped. Can anyone explain why this happened?... and how to avoid it. He needs to demo this site on different machines, but we don't understand why this happened? Thanks for your help!
Tek-Tips is the largest IT community on the Internet today!
Members share and learn making Tek-Tips Forums the best source of peer-reviewed technical information on the Internet!
-
Congratulations wOOdy-Soft on being selected by the Tek-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!
hyperlink file path changing to mapped drive path
- Thread starter dmaytum
- Start date
