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Wizard Joined: 15 Jan 2002 Posts: 1644 Location: USA

http://forums.zuggsoft.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=18417

click on the read full article

gives you a 404 at http://forums.zuggsoft.com/mx/modules/mx_kb/kb.?mode=doc&k=628
it is missing the .php extension on kb.

Posted: Sat Oct 30, 2004 5:45 am

Damn, this is a bad one. Fixing this required reprocessing all of the help files. Looks like I'll need to write a custom script to go through the database and patch this. But all 500+ KB entries are like this. Blah!

Posted: Sat Oct 30, 2004 11:34 pm

I've fixed all of the "Read full article" links in the Knowledge Base forum topics. Thanks for reporting this problem.

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

It seems that mid-topic targets did not convert correctly. There were only 2 used in the old help. They were in the Introduction to Aliases and General Parsing. One is referenced in 2 places Shortcuts and Tricks and Aliases. The other is only referenced in Character information. While it appears that the links to the targets were created properly the # is converted to %23 when the link is clicked. On the target side the <a name> reference is displayed and not interpretted by the browser so even adjusting a link to have a proper # won't jup down the page.

Posted: Sun Oct 31, 2004 3:07 am

Sorry, but maybe my brain is just tired. But can you explain the problem in more detail? Are you saying that any link with the # in it isn't working? I could have sworn I tested several that worked.

Wizard Joined: 15 Jan 2002 Posts: 1644 Location: USA

Page Used (I think true of them all though)
http://forums.zuggsoft.com/mx/modules/mx_kb/kb.php?mode=doc&k=104

<< -> Knowledge Base -> zMUD -> zMUD Manual Source

All of those links take you back to the MX portal main page

http://forums.zuggsoft.com/mx/modules/mx_kb/kb.php?mode=doc&k=149

the <nobr> didn't get converted correctly

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

Nexela is referring to the links at above the actual article.
Knowledge Base: needs to have "?page=3" added to the end.
zMUD: needs to have "&page=3" added to the end
zMUD Manual Source: needs to have "&page=3" added to the end.

The ones I mentioned:
from the page Aliases
at the bottom the link with text of special points to
http://forums.zuggsoft.com/mx/modules/mx_kb/kb.php?mode=doc&index=%alias_intro#aliases_special
when clicked though
http://forums.zuggsoft.com/mx/modules/mx_kb/kb.php?mode=doc&index=%25alias_intro%23aliases_special
The "%23" there causes an "Article not found"

Finally the <A NAME="..."> references that those links are supposed to connect to are not converted. Scroll down in the %alias_intro and parsing.

Posted: Mon Nov 01, 2004 7:48 pm

OK, I think I understand now.

First, the links only have "page=3" added to them depending upon how you came into those pages. So, please post a way to reproduce the problem. Right now when I go into the knowledge base, those links properly have the page=3 added to them. But you might have bookmarked a URL without that so that it can't propogate.

For the # links and the <A NAME> issue, there isn't any way to link to a sub-section of an article now in the new knowledge base format. So, to fix this I'm going to have to strip the #aliases_special from the end of the link and get rid of the <A Name=...> tag in the middle of the text. Hopefully these were not used in too many places. The help file should be designed so that no page is long enough to require sub-sections like this.

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

As I said so far there were only 2 topics using such links. I was planning on using more mid-topic links and indexes for pointing a user in the right direction, but I can find another way

Posted: Fri Nov 05, 2004 5:57 am

OK, I think I have all of these pages fixed now.