Hyperlinks in OneNote to Excel documents on SharePoint do not open
Hey All,
I'm a tech working on a bizzarre issue with OneNote. Here are some details on the environment in which I am having issues:
Windows 7 Enterprise
Office 2007 Enterprise
SharePoint 2007
When hyperlinks are put into OneNote from anywhere (typed manually, Outlook Send to OneNote Feature, copy shortcut link) they do not open. I'll click the link, it will prompt me about security (some links contain viruses, blah blah), I'll click 'Ok', and the
link never opens. All of these documents are stored on SharePoint somehwere and can be accessed by taking the same link and placing it in the IE window. I've tried this with multiple documents on different SharePoint sites, all of which I have confirmed I
have appropriate access to.
Its also important to note that most of the time when I click the link I get no error message - sometimes it does show the following error, but very seldom:
"Unable to open <link>. Hyperlink cannot be followed to the destination."
One workaround I have found that (sometimes works) is if I open excel first, occasionally it will open the file after clicking the link. It is inconsitent however. I also tried this on 3 separate machines of Identical hardware and image. All of them had
the same issue.
Thanks,
Zack
August 12th, 2010 4:30pm
I cannot reproduce the phenomenon you described:
I pasted a URL to Excel workbook in MOSS 2007: http://moss.litwareinc.com/documents/book1.xlsx
into OneNote. Then I click the URL, the warning you described prompted. I click OK, then the Excel file opened.
However, my tested with Office 2007 installed on Windows 2003 R2 server and Office 2010 installed on Windows 2008 R2 server, both work well. I currently don’t
have a Office2007 installed on Win7 environment on hand.
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August 13th, 2010 7:20am
Hmm, well I do appreciate your testing. Hopefully someone can test for me in a similar environment.
Thanks!
Zack
August 13th, 2010 2:21pm
I changed my http: to file: and this fix this problem for me
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April 30th, 2012 6:19pm
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April 30th, 2012 6:38pm