Hi all
Anyone use a picasa web album of photos and the web html links picasa provides to use as the helm website link in sailwave?
Picasa generates a link for you. but sailwave can’t seem to get the link to open up i get a 404 error.
for example
Picasa Web Albums - Mark Schneider - Lake Hopatong…
Picasa Web Albums - Mark Schneider - Lake Hopatong…
Photos by Mark Schneider, Sep 27, 2014 - A Class sailors
View on picasaweb.google.com
Preview by Yahoo
goes to the correct photo in the picasa album.
I have a high point sailwave file that I would like to link each competitor with their photo… Those sailors who are missing can upload a pic to the picasa site and I will get around to linking it up.
Is there a smarter way to do this.
Last question… is there anyway to have the photo open in the same web page tab… Now sailwave creates a new tab … is this a browser thing and can you force a certain behavior?
Thanks
Mark
Mark,
Just tried your link with 2.9.7 and it works just fine for me.
The cursor tool-tip says "You must include the http:// prefix" but that
is not true. I got the same HTML code whether I included the prefix or not.
A 404 error means there was no page at the address given by the link.
Check in the address bar of your browser to see what link it is trying
to access when you get the 404 error. Or, hover your cursor over the
link on your published webpage and right-click to copy the broken link -
paste it into Notepad or some text editor to see what it says. It won't
be what you think it is, which is why it isn't working.
The "new window" problem is due to Sailwave and there is no fix short of
editing the resulting webpages. The HTML code 'target="_blank"' tells
your browser to open the link in a new blank window. Sailwave generates
that automatically. You'd have to edit that out, either manually or with
some kind of post-publish processing program. My club runs all Sailwave
published HTML files through an Excel macro to "fix" issues like that.
If you are willing to do that with your HTML files then a "fix" is
trivial. By the way, I think the "new window" option is preferred and so
I use "fix" rather advisedly since I think Sailwave is currently doing
the better of the two options (new or same window).
Hope that helps,
Art
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On 10/1/2014 4:40 PM, mschneid@msn.com [sailwave] wrote:
Hi all
Anyone use a picasa web album of photos and the web html links picasa provides to use as the helm website link in sailwave?
Picasa generates a link for you. but sailwave can't seem to get the link to open up i get a 404 error.
for example
Picasa Web Albums - Mark Schneider - Lake Hopatong... https://picasaweb.google.com/117948764151533519378/LakeHopatong2014Regatta#6065357677451018146
https://picasaweb.google.com/117948764151533519378/LakeHopatong2014Regatta#6065357677451018146
Picasa Web Albums - Mark Schneider - Lake Hopatong... https://picasaweb.google.com/117948764151533519378/LakeHopatong2014Regatta#6065357677451018146 Photos by Mark Schneider, Sep 27, 2014 - A Class sailors
View on picasaweb.google.com https://picasaweb.google.com/117948764151533519378/LakeHopatong2014Regatta#6065357677451018146
Preview by Yahoo
goes to the correct photo in the picasa album.
I have a high point sailwave file that I would like to link each competitor with their photo... Those sailors who are missing can upload a pic to the picasa site and I will get around to linking it up.
Is there a smarter way to do this.
Last question... is there anyway to have the photo open in the same web page tab... Now sailwave creates a new tab .. is this a browser thing and can you force a certain behavior?
Thanks
Mark
Thanks Art
You are correct… when you copy the link… you get the https:// heading which createst the problem…
if the link starts off with just picasa… things work fine.