Contribute rewriting image links

[abna]

Many pages on my site have includes on them. When editing one of these
includes, I need to insert images. The path to the image needs to be valid
relative to the page that loads the include rather than the include file, for
it to show up in the browser. Obviously, just browsing to the image when
inserting it on the include page will give the path relative to the include. To
fix that, I manually type what the path should be in the image properties. But
Contribute thinks it's smarter than me, and rewrites the path. For instance, I
type in /11k/images/icon/whatsnew.gif and Contribute changes it to
.../../images/icon/whatsnew.gif. I can get it to maintain the path if I put in
images/icon/whatsnew.gif, which will work when the include is used at one level
in the site, but not when it is used at others.

Is there any possible way within Contribute to make the image path be what I
need it to be?

[David Burley]

It looks like the updated to contribute 3 has the facilities do post a file
outside of the normal publish model. But, your permissions would need to
allow this.

"abna" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
news:dnkb3j$fko$1@forums.macromedia.com...

> Many pages on my site have includes on them. When editing one of these
> includes, I need to insert images. The path to the image needs to be valid
> relative to the page that loads the include rather than the include file,

for

> it to show up in the browser. Obviously, just browsing to the image when
> inserting it on the include page will give the path relative to the

include. To

> fix that, I manually type what the path should be in the image properties.

But

> Contribute thinks it's smarter than me, and rewrites the path. For

instance, I

> type in /11k/images/icon/whatsnew.gif and Contribute changes it to
> ../../images/icon/whatsnew.gif. I can get it to maintain the path if I put

in

> images/icon/whatsnew.gif, which will work when the include is used at one

level

> in the site, but not when it is used at others.
>
> Is there any possible way within Contribute to make the image path be

what I

> need it to be?
>

[abna]

Originally posted by: Newsgroup User
It looks like the updated to contribute 3 has the facilities do post a file
outside of the normal publish model. But, your permissions would need to
allow this.


I have the newest version of Contribute and I am the administrator, so I can
set any permissions I need. But I need to know exactly how to make this work.

[HalifaxWM]

I have the same issue, with links and images in include files. The only way I
can get around it is to force Contribute to make the link site relative. I do
this by publishing the file, then re-editing and going to link properties, in
the 'href' box, forcing it to /directory/*.*

Drives me nuts, and makes it difficult to Show that to the many page authors I
have. They don't all necessarily understand relative and absolute linking.

[jnosal3]

This is not the best option but you might define the links as absolute...

[url]www.mysite.com/images/my_image.jpg[/url]

...and not define things as site root (/images/my_images.jpg) or document
relative (../../images/my_image.jpg)

I too have seen this from time to time but have not issolated the exact
details. If anyone does, thay may want to report it to Macromedia/Adobe support.

[abna]

Originally posted by: jnosal3
This is not the best option but you might define the links as absolute...

[url]www.mysite.com/images/my_image.jpg[/url]

...and not define things as site root (/images/my_images.jpg) or document
relative (../../images/my_image.jpg)

I too have seen this from time to time but have not issolated the exact
details. If anyone does, thay may want to report it to Macromedia/Adobe support.



That solution wouldn't work out in my case, because we have a development
server and a production server. If I set the links to all point to the
production server, we won't be able to test the pages on development.

[Jerry McEwen]

On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 17:13:23 +0000 (UTC), "abna"
<webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote:

>Many pages on my site have includes on them. When editing one of these
>includes, I need to insert images. The path to the image needs to be valid
>relative to the page that loads the include rather than the include file, for
>it to show up in the browser. Obviously, just browsing to the image when
>inserting it on the include page will give the path relative to the include. To
>fix that, I manually type what the path should be in the image properties. But
>Contribute thinks it's smarter than me, and rewrites the path. For instance, I
>type in /11k/images/icon/whatsnew.gif and Contribute changes it to
>../../images/icon/whatsnew.gif. I can get it to maintain the path if I put in
>images/icon/whatsnew.gif, which will work when the include is used at one level
>in the site, but not when it is used at others.
>
> Is there any possible way within Contribute to make the image path be what I
>need it to be?

Did you try prefacing the path with /? It's worth a try.

[abna]

Originally posted by: Newsgroup User
On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 17:13:23 +0000 (UTC), "abna"
<webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote:

Did you try prefacing the path with /? It's worth a try.



Yes, as I stated in the post, the very first thing I tried was
"/11k/images/icon/whatsnew.gif ".