Visio don't update hyperlink after page renaming ?

[Olivier57]

Hi,

I have created an hyperlink from one shape to another on another page. I
rename the page and notice that Visio 2003 kept the previous name "hard
coded" in the hyperlink. I just can't believe it, is this "by design" ?

Thanks for answers

 

[WapperDude]

Seems to be so. Not very convenient!

 

[Paul Herber]

Hi,

I have created an hyperlink from one shape to another on another page. I
rename the page and notice that Visio 2003 kept the previous name "hard
coded" in the hyperlink. I just can't believe it, is this "by design" ?

It doesn't fix the problem but may help you find these broken links,
my
http://www.visio-utilities.sandrila.co.uk/
can report on and check all the hyperlinks within a document, even
checking down to target page and shape.

 

[Paul Herber]

Yes, I found your site which presents nice tools and precisely thought that
you should expand your check hyperlink tool to replace all identical ones in
a row by the one determined by the user.

Not sure what you mean by identical ones.

 

[Olivier57]

You may have several hyperlinks in different pages that all point to
"Page-2". If you rename "Page-2" to "My Page", all the hyperlinks that
pointed to "Page-2" have to be changed. So you could develop a sort of search
and replace function for hyperlinks. I didn't test but I suppose that the
problem is the same if the name of the file is changed.

Visio 2003 is rather Visio 1988 on some points...

 

[Paul Herber]

You may have several hyperlinks in different pages that all point to
"Page-2". If you rename "Page-2" to "My Page", all the hyperlinks that
pointed to "Page-2" have to be changed. So you could develop a sort of search
and replace function for hyperlinks. I didn't test but I suppose that the
problem is the same if the name of the file is changed.

That's more of a general text replace that needs to work over not just
hyperlinks but also custom properties (shape data), user-defined
cells, maybe other sections as well.
Not that easy for hyperlinks though as the full address of the link
isn't stored as just one text string but as a Description, Address,
SubAddress and ExtraInfo fields.