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BetterRed · 05-25-2013, 08:37 PM

Thanks @chaley

yes http links work for me, I assume they did back when I discovered the field, but I can't recall trying - I think I only tried folder links

But I still cant get folder or file links to work - even a cut and paste of your link to the windows folder still gives the wikipedia entry

If I enter a website address, eg http://www.charlierose.com/, it works, but if I enter file:///E:/_Sandpit/CharlieRose/ I get Charlie Rose's wikipedia entry

Yet if I put the same folder links (via paste from clipboard) into book comments it works fine

There must be either something 'blocking it' or I'm missing something obvious - I suspect the latter - I shall try a bit harder.

Update : I tried a restart. By gosh, the Charlie Rose folder link worked.

So I tried another author (Stiglitz) on another book, didn't work - went back down to the Charlie Rose book, still working phew. Went back up to the Stiglitz book - working.

After entering the Author link, if the current book is from that Author you have to 'refresh' Book details before the link will work - how on earth did I miss that

It must resolve the link when the page is displayed, not when its clicked - that's cool, its the way this stupid thing called the Web works - its not as dynamic as they like to make us think it is.

Now, the question is - can I update Author Links from the CLI, I can't see anything,

@chaley, can you confirm that I should put my folder links in to the author.link column in metadata.db - I can write a powershell script to do that.

That'll teach me to

when a question falls into the bit bucket

BR

05-25-2013, 08:37 PM	#15
BetterRed null operator (he/him) Posts: 21,781 Karma: 30237628 Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Sydney Australia Device: none	Thanks @chaley yes http links work for me, I assume they did back when I discovered the field, but I can't recall trying - I think I only tried folder links But I still cant get folder or file links to work - even a cut and paste of your link to the windows folder still gives the wikipedia entry If I enter a website address, eg http://www.charlierose.com/, it works, but if I enter file:///E:/_Sandpit/CharlieRose/ I get Charlie Rose's wikipedia entry Yet if I put the same folder links (via paste from clipboard) into book comments it works fine There must be either something 'blocking it' or I'm missing something obvious - I suspect the latter - I shall try a bit harder. Update : I tried a restart. By gosh, the Charlie Rose folder link worked. So I tried another author (Stiglitz) on another book, didn't work - went back down to the Charlie Rose book, still working phew. Went back up to the Stiglitz book - working. After entering the Author link, if the current book is from that Author you have to 'refresh' Book details before the link will work - how on earth did I miss that It must resolve the link when the page is displayed, not when its clicked - that's cool, its the way this stupid thing called the Web works - its not as dynamic as they like to make us think it is. Now, the question is - can I update Author Links from the CLI, I can't see anything, @chaley, can you confirm that I should put my folder links in to the author.link column in metadata.db - I can write a powershell script to do that. That'll teach me to when a question falls into the bit bucket BR Attached Thumbnails Last edited by BetterRed; 05-25-2013 at 09:08 PM.