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Re: Anchor Tag in Sandvox 2

dummy@example.com (mikeabdullah) — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:23:38 +0000

mta wrote:

In the process of testing this out I discovered that Sandvox still uses absolute links for a few things. Every page contains both an image_src and a canonical tag with an absolute URL and there are a couple of copyright comments with absolute URLs on each page. This is probably the right thing to do, but it does mean that moving the site around may not work exactly right.

Yep, the canonical link is absolute by design.

Re: Anchor Tag in Sandvox 2

dummy@example.com (mta) — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:58:29 +0000

Your responses reminded me that I had never followed through on my promise to look at this more after Thanksgiving. I'm glad to report that in version 2.5.1 using an external link page as suggested in response 15 makes it work the way I want. If an external link page points to another page on the same site Sandvox is smart enough to use a relative link to access that page.

In the process of testing this out I discovered that Sandvox still uses absolute links for a few things. Every page contains both an image_src and a canonical tag with an absolute URL and there are a couple of copyright comments with absolute URLs on each page. This is probably the right thing to do, but it does mean that moving the site around may not work exactly right.

Re: Anchor Tag in Sandvox 2

dummy@example.com (KindaKath) — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:49:14 +0000

I wanted to let Mike know that I have been following this closely and agree with the recommendations made. I want to be able to both anchor within my rather long page of information, and could not believe how difficult it was with the upgraded Sandvox. Thanks for paying attention to our input.

Re: Anchor Tag in Sandvox 2

dummy@example.com (ahtisham454) — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:57:55 +0000

Very informational and educational as usual!

Re: Anchor Tag in Sandvox 2

dummy@example.com (mta) — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 00:53:36 +0000

Oops, I think I may have gotten confused between an external link "object" and and external link "page". I searched the help for "external" and that's what I found. I won't be able to do anything until next week since this week is consumed by Thanksgiving, but I'll try again then. It sounds like the external link page will do what I want.

Re: Anchor Tag in Sandvox 2

dummy@example.com (mikeabdullah) — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 10:16:32 +0000

The external page is listed in the Site Navigator, yes, but nothing special happens to it when publishing. All links to that External Link page are published as links to the real, already-published-elsewhere page.

Re: Anchor Tag in Sandvox 2

dummy@example.com (mta) — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 05:25:34 +0000

That doesn't really do what I want. It embeds the external page in the Sandvox site. I want to link to the page. Just a simple link, nothing more.

Just FTR it also doesn't handle relative URLs properly but you can probably fix that easily.

Re: Anchor Tag in Sandvox 2

dummy@example.com (mikeabdullah) — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 20:33:37 +0000

My advice then would be to create an External Link page for each blog you want to link to. From the Link Inspector, link to that, rather than directly to the URLs themselves. That allows Sandvox a better idea of where links are pointing to when it generates them. I can't recall if Sandvox is presently clever enough to generate relative URLs from that scenario, but if it isn't, it becomes easy for us to start generating relative links in a future update.

Re: Anchor Tag in Sandvox 2

dummy@example.com (mta) — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 21:30:20 +0000

Yes, exactly. My wife created some blogs using iBlog2 which we haven't converted to Sandvox. I published that to my web site in a different folder from the Sandvox generated contents and want to link to the various blogs from the Sandvox content. This seems like a reasonable thing to do.

Re: Anchor Tag in Sandvox 2

dummy@example.com (mikeabdullah) — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 11:32:27 +0000

mta wrote:

I would very much like relative links also, for the reasons mentioned in response 7. It seems to me that you could largely solve the problem by just changing things so you don't add "http://" to a link that starts with a period. Changing "../a/b/index.html" into "http://../a/b/index.html" is never an improvement, the former may be legal, the latter never is. This one change would be a big improvement. I just tried 2.2rc1 and see that relative links still aren't handled, at least not in any way I can find.

The question is why you want to generate links of the form "../a/b/index.html"? Are you trying to link to pages within the site that are outside of Sandvox's control?

Re: Anchor Tag in Sandvox 2

dummy@example.com (mta) — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 02:54:38 +0000

I would very much like relative links also, for the reasons mentioned in response 7. It seems to me that you could largely solve the problem by just changing things so you don't add "http://" to a link that starts with a period. Changing "../a/b/index.html" into "http://../a/b/index.html" is never an improvement, the former may be legal, the latter never is. This one change would be a big improvement. I just tried 2.2rc1 and see that relative links still aren't handled, at least not in any way I can find.

Re: Anchor Tag in Sandvox 2

dummy@example.com (terrence) — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 17:12:04 +0000

Go, Mike, go!

Re: Anchor Tag in Sandvox 2

dummy@example.com (mikeabdullah) — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 11:07:44 +0000

OK, as of Sandvox 2.2b17, the Link Inspector will accept fragments, that is: links beginning with a #

I'm still considering relative links.

Re: Anchor Tag in Sandvox 2

dummy@example.com (leelep) — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 19:54:58 +0000

Thank you very much! Will you be looking into the relative links too? I am asking because some may think there is no need for them due to the "page in this site" feature but in many cases we publish pages with other methods and do not want to create a place holder page in Sandvox for everything we want to link to within the site. We publish the site to multiple locations (Development, Unit test, Beta test, Production) and need the relative links to work regardless of the target site. -Lee

Re: Anchor Tag in Sandvox 2

dummy@example.com (mikeabdullah) — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 10:42:53 +0000

Hi guys, I'm going to look into improving this for Sandvox 2.2.