Testing embedded links

[Runner]

I have just put some embedded links onto my home page inside a fragment. Should these work in offline site preview? All I get is 'cannot display the webpage' I am using IE7and trial version of catalog.

Example link
!!<<a href="Boilers_Oil.html">oil boilers</a>>!!

[AndrewPK]

The links will work, but its the way you have your link set up that is causing your problem,

You just have them linking to Boilers_Oil.html in the same folder, meaning your off-line preview is attempting to find a file called Boilers_Oil.html in your preview html folder, which is not there,

you have options,
1 upload to your on-line site and check from there
2 put absolute links in (change from just Boilers_Oil.html to http ://www. Yoursite.com/Boilers_Oil.html or whatever the address would be)

edit:
You might also find that there are sub folders involved in your site, such as, all product pages were put in the /acatalog/ sub folder on the server.

or at least they were in V7 (just noticed this was a v8 question and i haven't upgraded yet!)

[NormanRouxel]

These hand coded links will nor work when Previewing. Actinic puts all the Preview files into PreviewHTML and renames them pages to start with P_ (e.g. P_Boilers_Oil.html).

You could use a condition to add the P_ if Actinic was generating Preview Pages.

<actinic:block if="%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22IsPreviewMode%22%20%2f%3e">P_</actinic:block>

but this will need to go into a Layout and not as part of a Fragment text.

[Runner]

Thanks for the replies. Whereabouts would the condition be placed inthe layout?

[NormanRouxel]

Immediately before the link filename.

E.g.

<a href="<actinic:block if="%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22IsPreviewMode%22%20%2f%3e">P_</actinic:block>Boilers_Oil.html">Boilers</a>

[Runner]

Thanks, that works well