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Links get broken when editing a page.

Cruz Meza

Hello,

We have a page with links to a share drive. There are about 200 links to different folders on our drive. We add new links to this page often.

If I try to edit the page, all the previously established links disappear.

When I visit the page all the links are still showing up. All the links show up in red and get underlined when I hover the mouse over them.

When I click on ‘Edit’ the links still show up as red. They still get underlined when I hover the mouse over them. If I were to click on one of the links nothing happens. Before this started happening, when I clicked on a link while editing, I would have the option to edit the link or go to the link.

If I click publish, all the links still show up as red and get underlined when I hover over them. If I click the link nothing happens. If I added new links while editing, those links are the only links that actually work.

How Can I fix this?

Using Confluence 6.0.6

Regards,

Alonso

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AnnWorley

How are the links defined? I had the idea you couldn't link to a share or a local file:

Cannot link to local files from within Confluence

Are you using a plugin for this functionality?

I can restore the storage format on a test instance and see if I get the same behavior, that will be the fastest way to explain how the page is set up.

Please create a test page with some links you don't mind sharing on the Internet, then:

Click on the ellipsis (…) in the top right-hand corner and select View Storage Format from the dropdown.
Copy the storage format to a file and paste it in here as code
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Cruz Meza

I am adding the links in the following format.

file://DriveLocation/path to file

This is what the test page with one link looks like. I changed a couple words in the drive location.

<p class="auto-cursor-target"><br /></p>
<table><colgroup><col /><col /><col /><col /></colgroup>
<tbody>
<tr>
<th>sdafasdfdsa</th>
<th>dsfadfasdfsa</th>
<th>dsfasfsafsa</th>
<th>dsfasdfsad</th></tr>
<tr>
<td><br /></td>
<td><br /></td>
<td><br /></td>
<td><a href="file://something.cos.is.something.com/EUC_Gshare/tmcc">Link1</a></td></tr></tbody></table>
<p><br /></p>

Link1 is the text that is linked to the drive.

If I click on the link I get taken to that directory. This is the Storage format when I go and edit the page to add another link.

<p class="auto-cursor-target"><br /></p>
<table><colgroup><col /><col /><col /><col /></colgroup>
<tbody>
<tr>
<th>sdafasdfdsa</th>
<th>dsfadfasdfsa</th>
<th>dsfasfsafsa</th>
<th>dsfasdfsad</th></tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="file://something.cos.is.something.com/EUC_Gshare/tmcc">Link2</a></td>
<td><br /></td>
<td><br /></td>
<td><a>Link1</a></td></tr></tbody></table>
<p class="auto-cursor-target"><br /></p>

As you can see. Link 1 no longer has the linke. The only link that is actually linked is the new one I added, Link2.

This only started happening about 2 weeks ago.

AnnWorley

I tested on Confluence 6.0.6 and Confluence 6.1.1 (latest) and the behavior is as you report - the link looks like a link after you edit the page, but the "link" is no longer clickable and the href disappears from the storage format.

I wonder what could have made this start affecting you 2 weeks ago.

Greg Walker_k9byu0

I am getting the same issue using 6.1.2 and it is quite frustrating. Eveyr time I change formatting or structure on the page some or all the links are no clickable but still appear liek a hyperlink.

Some are links to a network filepath and others to SharePoint sites. Any help would be appreciated here.

AnnWorley

A bug was reported and fixed for this: Links can't be edited or clicked on after saving the page

Please see this comment for more information about the fix versions and workarounds.

IT Support_zkdff6

Thank you Ann!

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