"Damo" wrote:
> Thanks to both of you. I shall try this first thing on Monday & let you know
> of the results :-)
> "John Goldsmith" wrote:
> > Thanks Chris. Better get on with my own work now:)
> > Look forward to your next blog post.
> > Best regards
> > John
> > John Goldsmith
> > www.visualSignals.co.uk
> > "Chris Roth [MVP]" <visioguy [at] hotmail [dot] com> wrote in message
> > news:OwEoJGD0HHA.464@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> > > Oooh John!
> > > It's nice to find smart folks like you out there! I'm glad you had the
> > > patience to pore through the Visio/html-output and work this out! Tempted
> > > to turn this one into an article/utility for my blog...
> > > --
> > > Thanks!
> > > Chris Roth
> > > Visio MVP
> > > http://www.visguy.com
> > > "John Goldsmith" <FirstName.LastN...@visualsignals.co.uk> wrote in message
> > > news:%23B2%23VtC0HHA.600@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> > >> Hello Damo,
> > >> Inspired by Chris's suggestion I've been having a look at the frameset.js
> > >> file (which I'm assuming your reasonably ok with as you're looking in
> > >> that folder area already).
> > >> As Chris says there's an HTMLEscape function at the bottom of this file
> > >> which prevents the links from being links, however with a little editting
> > >> you can get the behaviour you're after:
> > >> Search the file for "if (oPropValue)" (there's only one instance of this)
> > >> and replace the following:
> > >> if (oPropValue)
> > >> {
> > >> strValueText = HTMLEscape (oPropValue.text);
> > >> }
> > >> ....with:
> > >> if (oPropValue)
> > >> {
> > >> if (String(oPropValue.text).charAt(0) == "s")
> > >> {
> > >> strValueText =
> > >> String(oPropValue.text).substring(1,(String(oPropValue.text).length));
> > >> }
> > >> else
> > >> {
> > >> strValueText = HTMLEscape (oPropValue.text);
> > >> }
> > >> }
> > >> You can then use the following link text in the shapesheet:
> > >> ="s<a href='http://www.bbc.co.uk' target='_blank'>BBC</a>"
> > >> If you always use the same Save as web page settings then you can just
> > >> replace the frameset.js file with your editted version so at least you
> > >> won't javascripting each time. You may also want to choose a start
> > >> character other than "s" that will be unique within the Shape Data cells.
> > >> Anyway, hope that helps.
> > >> Best regards
> > >> John
> > >> John Goldsmith
> > >> www.visualSignals.co.uk
> > >> "Chris Roth [MVP]" <visioguy [at] hotmail [dot] com> wrote in message
> > >> news:eoxXrrA0HHA.3400@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> > >>> Hi Damo,
> > >>> I tried to trick the Save As Web by putting html in the shape property,
> > >>> ie:
> > >>> Prop.Link = "<a href='http://www.visguy.com' title='Visio Guy'>Visio
> > >>> Guy</a>"
> > >>> but the export seems to be too clever and is escaping the link so that
> > >>> it appears as text. I don't know if there are any cleverer ways to
> > >>> "anti-escape" the property-text in order to fool the export. Kinda
> > >>> starts to sound like a security risk at some point... : )
> > >>> If your summer interns are still around, they might be able to massage
> > >>> the Save As Web output with some sort of post-process utility that would
> > >>> make your link a link again, but this is extra programming, and an extra
> > >>> step in your publishing process...
> > >>> Anybody else got any ideas?
> > >>> --
> > >>> Hope this helps,
> > >>> Chris Roth
> > >>> Visio MVP
> > >>> Free Visio shapes:
> > >>> http://www.visguy.com/category/shapes
> > >>> Visio programming info:
> > >>> http://www.visguy.com/category/programming/
> > >>> Other Visio resources:
> > >>> http://www.visguy.com/visio-links/
> > >>> "Damo" <D...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > >>> news:EAE06D24-1113-4F0E-ADE1-8B04C2AE880A@microsoft.com...
> > >>>> We automatically convert our Organisation to html in Visio. If you
> > >>>> CTRL-Click on a shape you get to see the "properties" of that shape
> > >>>> over on
> > >>>> the left of the screen. One of the fields is currently text and we
> > >>>> want to
> > >>>> make it a hyperlink to a separate web page.
> > >>>> I can see where the text is stored after the html is created (a file
> > >>>> called
> > >>>> data.xml)
> > >>>> <Prop ID="6" Name="Link" NameU="Link">
> > >>>> <Value Unit="STR">http://www.webpage.com</Value>
> > >>>> <Label>Link</Label>
> > >>>> </Prop>
> > >>>> What I need is http://www.webpage.com to be an HTML hyperlink, but I
> > >>>> don't
> > >>>> need the shape to be a hyperlink.
> > >>>> Does anyone know how to do this?
> > >>>> Cheers