Hyperlink is no Longer Your Concern

Hyperlinks are used in your drawings to link one shape to other documents, such as a Web page, a Word document, or a shape or page of a Visio drawing. Hyperlink is a powerful mechanism to effectively organize and present your information.

When publishing online, hyperlinks you have established offline need to be converted according to the W3C standards. Unfortunately, Visio is doing a poor job, for example:

You Put	You Get	What's Wrong
www.yahoo.com	c:\www.yahoo.com, not working	Should be: http://www.yahoo.com
C:\MyPath\MyFile.doc# MyBookmark	Unchanged, not working	Should be MyPath/MyFile.doc, need to: Convert the absolute path to relative because a location on the Web server is relevant to its root directory and irrelevant to a physical drive Use “/” (the Web format that works on all platforms) instead of “\” (that works on Windows only) Remove the Word document (or any other office documents') bookmark since a browser does not handle it
MySite.com?MyParm=xxx	MySite.com, not working	Should keep the parameter list
Multiple hyperlinks, access to Custom Properties	One hyperlink only, no access to Custom Properties in Netscape Navigator	Should produce logic to support both Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator
Double quotes	Web page error	Should convert a double quote into its Web representation """ since double quote is the string delimiter for HTML internal use
Upper/lower case character mismatch	Works on Windows server, but not on Unix server	Should use the original name to ensure non-Windows platform support
Use hyperlink as menu caption (leave it blank)	Shows the internal HTML code to the user, such as "Thank%20You!"	Should use plain text "Thank You!"
Link to other Visio drawings	No change, not working when both drawings are published online	Should convert the link to a drawing into a link to a Web page

Easy Publish automatically corrects the above errors and does a lot more to ensure that your hyperlinks are converted properly without you fixing anything, in particular:

All the hyperlinks work online without you worrying about the absolute / relative path and any inconsistency between Windows and Web standards
Support Windows, Unix, and all other platforms
Support Internet Explorer 5.x and later and Netscape 4.x and later
Convert links to Visio drawings into links to Web pages if you choose
Offer an intuitive user interface with the unique SmartMenu technology

Publishing Easy Link Entries

If you are using Easy Link, another tool of the Amazing Visio family, all the hyperlinks you have created with this tool will be automatically published. Please click here for details.

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