Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 57721
Add a selection "relative / absolute" to the hyperlink dialogue
Last modified: 2013-02-07 22:42:12 UTC
Currently OOo shows all hyperlinks with a complete absolute address like <file:///e:/Rainer/Eigene%20Dateien/TEMP/oootestfiles/48308_relativehyperlinks/goal/goal.odt>, but that hyperlink will be hadled relative (if possible), or absolute, if it leads to another drive or other curcumstances make it impossible to hadle it relative. That often confuses users. The hyperlink dialogue should show clearly whether OOo will handle the shown hyplerink relative or absolute, and there should be a checkbox or some other selection so that the user can decide whether the hyperlink should be relative or absolute. That might look like you see it in attached screenshot "mozillaoption.png".
Created attachment 31359 [details] screenshot showing how that is handled in MOZILLA
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*** Issue 66372 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
*** Issue 63824 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
The report for Issue 63824 shows a new aspect with a serious limitation of OOo's usability caused by the current automatic hyperlink handling.
*** Issue 48308 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
I also would like to see an 'absolute/relative' option mark on hyperlinks. In addition, I believe the actual hyperlink stored should not look like an absolute hyperlink, when it is really a relative one. Unfortunately, as far as I know, there is no relative URL specification: file:///... is always absolute, but this should really be changed. It is extremely confusing to see an absolute URL, but the software handles it relative. Moreover, OOo does not convert automatically to a relative path everywhere! Data links from a form to a Base file for example, are always absolute. This behaviour should be changed, so a Base Database file and its interface (a Writer file) can be distributed together, without having to set the link again on every computer, when a central database is not needed or wanted. For example, we would keep such a Writer/Base file pair for some simple database in our office on an SVN server, but each use would have to have a different (absolute) link in his Writer file, making it impossible to store the Writer file on SVN. A relative link would solve the problem. In turn the same goes for the data sources in Base themselves. Although with a DBMS the link will be normally an absolute one, with file based databases (like Sqlite) a relative link will be generally more useful.
*** Issue 57721 has been confirmed by votes. ***
I'd also like to see relative paths, when I entered them, as for me its a bit confusing to see the full path in the document, and trying to figure out, whether it is really a relative path, or an absolute one.
This Feature wouldn't only be useful for "clickable" links, but also for all linked document contents like pictures, OLE objects. Related issues are Issue 16824: (the workaround is not flexible enough) Issue 7532 Issue 95614 Issue 63186: More or less the same as reported here Issue 21576