Links in a table all pointing to the same file

scott-newman wrote on 7/9/2020, 3:19 PM

We created a table in Xara where we list and link to PDF recipes. In Xara Designer all the links work perfectly. When published, all the links point to the first PDF in the list. Suggestions? Thanks.

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johnebaker wrote on 7/9/2020, 4:03 PM

@scott-newman

Ensure that the browser cache is cleared or refreshed several times using F5.

If this does not work, post a link (if possible) to the site so we can have a look.

John EB
Forum Moderator

scott-newman wrote on 7/9/2020, 4:26 PM

Here is the link: http://easywilderness.com/recipes.htm. You can see that the recipe "Bread of Pennsylvania.pdf" appears in every link. Yet, each link was setup individually and points to a different PDF in Xara. And in the DEV page everything works perfectly. Hmmmm. Thanks for any input.

scott-newman wrote on 7/9/2020, 8:10 PM

I killed off the table and went with a simple list. I need to learn more about tables, they are not quite as intuitive as I thought they would be. My ultimate goal is to have the list in Microsoft Excel, so I can add recipes and sort them and group them and have them retain their links when I paste them back into Xara. Possible?

johnebaker wrote on 7/10/2020, 2:35 AM

@scott-newman

. . . . I killed off the table and went with a simple list . . . .

That would suggest the table itself had an overriding link attached to it.

When posting links, ensure that there is no extraneous characters, the above is giving a 404 error due to the full stop (period) after .htm

I can see you have replaced the table and all is well.

John EB

scott-newman wrote on 7/10/2020, 9:27 AM

My son is helping with this project and that seemed to be our opinion, too. Either that or it was some sort of layer issue. We just couldn't get it to work. I'm used to Adobe Dreamweaver and those tables make much more sense to a person who is used to Excel (aka, me). Speaking of which, would you happen to know of a good way to manage our list in Excel while maintaining all the links, so we could add and sort new entries easily and then import them into Xara and have all the links still work? Or, could you point me to a good YouTube video? Thanks for your help.

Scott N.

browj2 wrote on 7/10/2020, 9:46 AM

@scott-newman

Hi Scott,

I suggest that you also post on the TalkGraphics forum and take a look at some of the threads there about tables. I know that one of the guys has more success with Google Sheets.

John CB