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Working on a project using PDF forms and an iPad... wanted to transfer data to a local form through a hyperlink in an email...
The link that will work is something like:
pdfexfile:///templates/Packet10_14_13.pdf?Name_1=Testname&Address=123testdr
or
pdfexfile://localhost/templates/Packet10_14_13.pdf?Name_1=Testname&Address=123testdr
Either hyperlink (when sent through outlook) ends up like:
pdfexfile://templates/Packet10_14_13.pdf?Name_1=Testname&Address=123testdr
(Notice the slashes, without the 3rd or the localhost parm it will never work)
Evidently, there is no way to override this behavior and is considered a "feature". 
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...and what do you get if you leave off the localhost or the third slash?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Forogar wrote: ...and what do you get if you leave off the localhost or the third slash?
An error. (I can send it as plain text and it gets formatted as a link that works on the receiving end but it doesn't work well and often parses the link wrong. Also have tested link by typing it directly into safari and it works fine.)
Microsoft seems to change any "//" to a "/" and any ":///" (add as many / as you like here) to "://".
Just their way of being helpful.
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Is Outlook struggling because your protocol ends with "file"? Maybe it thinks you're sending a file:// link.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I don't know if this will solve your issue, but it may be worth a try.
Office XP: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/903876[^]
Office 2003: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/900258[^]
Office 2007; Use the key: HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\Common\AllowConsecutiveSlashesInUrlPathComponent [Dword] Value = 1
I don't have a new office version to test this on, but at least it prevented the "autocorrection" of the link in Word and Outlook editor.
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Thank You. I was not expecting a useful reply, I just had to vent. But your response is useful. Ya!! 
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Do you know which is the best robot that has been ever created ? The one that is closest to humans.
"If A is a success in life, then A=x+y+z. (Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.)"
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Seriously, The Stepford Wives ? 
"If A is a success in life, then A=x+y+z. (Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.)"
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Did you see it? The Stepford Wives is a perfectly good movie answer.
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Nope. Judged by the cover.
"If A is a success in life, then A=x+y+z. (Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.)"
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You mean [^]?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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You've got to be kidding. The toilet paper dispenser in my bathroom is more intelligent.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Gary R. Wheeler wrote: The toilet paper dispenser in my bathroom is more intelligent.
I'll refrain from asking why.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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My wife tells me I'm a smartass, so...
Software Zen: delete this;
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I didn't see anything in the OP about intelligent robots. 
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Anthony Daniels[^]
1) You can't get a robot closer to human than him...
2) He is the droid you are looking for.
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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Data, or more precisely, his brother, Lore, who emulates human behavior much more realistically than Data. 
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: or more precisely, his brother, Lore
Especially the psychotic side of his "behaviour"!!
I'd rather be phishing!
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I think I won[^]...
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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The CodeProject is controlling them.[^]
People becoming wiser in order to notice the stupid things they did back in the young days. This doesn't mean that they really stop doing those things. Wise people still do stupid things, only on purpose.
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I say blade runner: Blade Runner
or terminator
modified 21-Oct-13 15:57pm.
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